How did you find Novaload?

[kevw]

I am interested to see how everyone found their way onto the site?

Is it Google, spotting stickers? etc

Kev.

[wisewood]

I bought a grey mk1 SR interior from Paul Jackson - travelled to the back end of Leeds to fetch it in my 1987 Jamaica Yellow 1.2 Merit (RiP).

He asked me if i saw it advertised on Novaload - i said no, he said look it up. I did.

[Stuart]

did google exist when you started the site?


i think i found it via the yahoo usergroup wayyyyyy back in 1999

[draper]

i found it from the old (it may still be going) list of 100 best vauxhall sites, think i got the link for that from the just novas website. i blame th egallery as i was going to buy a sensible car and not bother with all this modding malarky - i blame you, all of you !!


as compensation i expect free membership :D

[Mike]

fook me! Erm, 3 years ago....

I used to skive time at school and go on it then, so id imagine id heard it from one of the lads at school or something maybe?

[Lee]

Scott Parker of all people.

Its all his fault!

[Jack]

I think I came in from a link on the Nova Owners mail list.

[coochiSR]

My brother............who thinks he found it of Google 4ish years ago ;)

[NovaLad]

Found it through google.com

[Mike]

actually it may have been topbuzz where i found it tbh

[Rick Draper]

I was searching for a star called nikki nova and ended up finding novaload instead lmao.

[Dave.]

i found it in total vauxhall mag

[Ste L]

find it on alta vista search engine, year and years and years ago...

back when i was 17/18 about 8 years ago..
didn't really post then, just used to look at the features and read some of the forum..

been registered under a few name, when i've had internet, then lost it for a while, and forgot passwords to old accounts etc etc

[J4MES]

i found it through topbuzz aswell i think, i remember being on it at school and not being able to register, and i didnt have t'internet at home, so just used to read it every day...never looked back since...

[Aamir]

This topic should be a poll

[wisewood]

poll threads are for people who can't be ar$ed with conversation. lazy mofo.

[Kinky Monza]

Jesus! this means i have to think lol

I got the Nova bug when i bought my first one, back in 2002/3? registered as Kinky Nova, but how i found this site, bloody hell i must be getting old cos i can't remember lol

[wisewood]

Must've been pre 2003 when you were here at first kn. You went to the MK meet when we didnt talk to each other and that was when i was in my mates saab, before i drove up to wrexham ... would have been december 2002 i believe.

[Gunzi]

IIRC I found novatrader, then topbuzz, then when I had my 2nd Nova I found Novaload. This was many years ago though....

[raymond]

i so it on someones signature on another site i was on

[wisewood]

i know novatrader and novaload used to be seperate, but surely there was a link between them? lol

[Kinky Monza]

Must've been pre 2003 when you were here at first kn. You went to the MK meet when we didnt talk to each other and that was when i was in my mates saab, before i drove up to wrexham ... would have been december 2002 i believe.


Oh my god! that makes me sound old, but you even older :p

I remember that Saab lol trying to keep up in a 1.2 to the motorway :eek:

[wisewood]

haha yeah - it was f*cked but it wasn't that f*cked.

At about 3am when i was finally heading down the M62 on my way home from that day out a white Nova GTE went past me while i was doing circa 115 ... so i gave him a go. I left him well behind by the time i hit 135 lol

VERY nearly ran out of fuel before i got the car to my mates driveway though as a result. Didnt have cash to fill up - so just dropped it off with an empty tank and took my car home :thumb:

[draper]

i hope that was a private road wisewood, doing them speeds on the motorway is silly :p

[Dave.]

haha yeah - it was f*cked but it wasn't that f*cked.

At about 3am when i was finally heading down the M62 on my way home from that day out a white Nova GTE went past me while i was doing circa 115 ... so i gave him a go. I left him well behind by the time i hit 135 lol

VERY nearly ran out of fuel before i got the car to my mates driveway though as a result. Didnt have cash to fill up - so just dropped it off with an empty tank and took my car home :thumb:

m62 is a good place to race lol.. especially the junction neear me.. as its got like a double sliproad so all the boy racers just floor it lol

[Kickingriffin]

Well i just registered with PNG about 7 years ago, which then changed to PVG then got bored about 3 weeks ago as no one is on there anymore then found NL on Google i think, but now im guessing effectively i havent moved forums??? Just that i will have to start paying full membership again which is souns as it was good getting membership stuff etc.

[wisewood]

m62 is a good place to race lol.. especially the junction neear me.. as its got like a double sliproad so all the boy racers just floor it lol

widnes m62 junction - up towards Rainhill? eastbound or westbound?
I prefer the eastbound myself lol

[andybishop]

I found Novaload back in January 1970 while somehow..... <----- Join Date...

Only joking, can't remember exactly how i found Novaload, will be something do with Topbuzz, nova owners or something like that.. Can't rememeber i'm getting old and forgetful now.

Oh actually, just thought, i set up www.novalution.co.uk (http://www.novalution.co.uk) at around the same time and exchanged links with Kev as far as i know...

[wisewood]

but now im guessing effectively i havent moved forums??? Just that i will have to start paying full membership again which is souns as it was good getting membership stuff etc.

You're still on novaload - its just that PNG has been restarted with the novaload membership as a basis for it. Nothing at all to do with the old PNG/PVG (aside from lee being involved with pvg).

[Kickingriffin]

Im not bothered which it is....as long as i can be a member...hee hee.... :o)

[Mike]

fook me! novaloution! not been on there in years! lol

[andybishop]

fook me! novaloution! not been on there in years! lol
Me neither... lol, not updated it for quite a while..

[Jim]

John Hilton pointed me in the direction of the site around 1999 I think.

[tom_beverley]

I think I found it through a list of 100 top sites, maybe a search engine :confused:

Was way back in 2002 and I just remember skiving at college and dreaming of owning a Nova as good as some of the features.

[draper]

I think I found it through a list of 100 top sites, maybe a search engine :confused:

Was way back in 2002 and I just remember skiving at college and dreaming of owning a Nova as good as some of the features.


i still do lol

[Kinky Monza]

haha yeah - it was f*cked but it wasn't that f*cked.

At about 3am when i was finally heading down the M62 on my way home from that day out a white Nova GTE went past me while i was doing circa 115 ... so i gave him a go. I left him well behind by the time i hit 135 lol

VERY nearly ran out of fuel before i got the car to my mates driveway though as a result. Didnt have cash to fill up - so just dropped it off with an empty tank and took my car home :thumb:


I know i had trouble keeping up lol

[vaughanmc]

I used to go on the features section every day to see if there was any updates in the Nova Sport section -- Then found out there was a forum and registered sometime last year...

[Aamir]

poll threads are for people who can't be ar$ed with conversation. lazy mofo.

So are smilies http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2403/foffwp4.gif lol

[wisewood]

Smilies are a built in feature to automatically replace text with an image.

Using a poll instead of having a conversation is just lazy, and kills the whole essence of the forums. Also - topbuzz etc have come up as a very popular reply, but not something that kev initially thought of as an option :wisewood:

[JSeymour]

so the stickers dont work! Lol


i found the feature pages then joined when i wanted to comment on them. cabt rerember how, search engine i guess.

[wisewood]

it depends - if the stickers say www.novalaod.net (http://www.novalaod.net) then they wont work, but if they say www.novaload.net (http://www.novaload.net) they will work - because they still bring you to the right place. FFS.

[nova ian]

I found it back in 2002 when I first got my nova. I got to it via a nova site that had how to guides on it. I cant for the life of me remember the name of it, but if someone can I would like to be reminded!

Anyway after looking at how to chav up my nova I found a link to here and was then hooked, used to trawl the features section for hours getting ideas, then about 2 years later I actually found out what this forum malarky was all about and joined up!

only really started posting regular last year, and as a result made a few good mates, and attended a couple of the meets.

Hopefully in the near future I will be able to meet some more of you and get to some more meets, and when the projects done, some track day action too!!

Ian

[wisewood]

The site you're talking about sounds like Topbuzz.

[JSeymour]

it depends - if the stickers say www.novalaod.net (http://www.novalaod.net) then they wont work, but if they say www.novaload.net (http://www.novaload.net) they will work - because they still bring you to the right place. FFS.

er, youve got the wrong end of the stick. read it again ;)

no-ones said they found the site through seeing stickers in the windo#ws hence my comment.

[wisewood]

:D Sarcasm is lost on you.

I had a couple of people ask me what novaload.net was when i had a sticker on the back window of my old clio - but never seen anyone turn up saying they saw a nova with a sticker and thought they'd pop over and look.

[JSeymour]

:D Sarcasm is lost on you.

I had a couple of people ask me what novaload.net was when i had a sticker on the back window of my old clio - but never seen anyone turn up saying they saw a nova with a sticker and thought they'd pop over and look.

clearly, the FFS bit threw me of a bit!

[goldengraham]

found it on google,

i got my nova in january, then about a week of having it i started searchin nova's on google and novaload popped up, so i signed up :D

[shaun1990]

johnny_turbo told me about the site and as i got ma nova other day i signed up :)

[srs1]

i was walking down the road one day and i tripped over something.
that was when i discovered that my wallet was empty.
after further investigation, i realised i had found novaload and my account being consistently empty ran hand in hand.

i now dont use the site as much and thus can afford to buy a house.

its all your fault KEV!

[dan16v]

i found it back in 1999 at college we used to be able to use the pc's/ internet at lunch times! think i just used some old search engine looking for novas!

[Ben]

I found it through Novatrader which Coline Smith sent me from www.Novarally.co.uk (http://www.Novarally.co.uk).

[johnny_turbo]

i found it through google searchin for a nova forum

[mayhem]

i found it through the dutch opel-forum, there was a link to a thread here. something about a nova LET iirc.

[peester]

yahoo... it spits up threads posted on here if u type in nova related things, onto yahoo or similar, (im guessing..) at the time i think i was researching about velos the oldskool valver tuner,.. linked me to good advice.
Anywho back then (2002ish) i found it a bit messy-lookin, novaload (didnt quite understand these live-feed-forums) so didn't join or use it, but kept getting links back to it as i needed to know more..
Joined up, been on it since. Couldn't get away, see..

[Novadex]

google iirc

[Christ]

back of Total vaux I think

[kevster]

some one at pvs told me

[Ian_Gsi16v]

Got my first nova in 1999 just before I passed my test, not sure how I found novaload, proberly a search engine, alta-vista was pretty popular in the pre-google days lol

[sport]

Friends way back in 2000, then browsing it for the last 3 years.

[BigStan]

Was some writing in the bottom of a pic Ben used to sell his old red Nova on ebay, which i bought, typed it in to see what it was all about and here i am !

[krobinson]

Found it back in 1999 when I had just finished school for the summer. Bought my first nova in 2000, and then i signed up to the forum around 2001. Think i originally found it on yahoo!

Keith

[womble sri]

i started reading posts and looking at features when i first bought a nova (2004) but i didnt register untill i had erm... stuffed my first one into a field and wanted it to be in the features! and 3 years and four novas later hear i am!!!!!!!!!!

[dave.gsi]

saw a nice blue nova down the road from me with stickers in the window (ian s)

was driving a black sr at the time so thought id check it out......4 novas later,im still here,even though now im novaless (for now :D )

[Driver]

saw a sticker in back window of a red sr on ebay

read for about 3 year then bough a nova van and signed up 1 more nova later and 5 month here i am lol

im still a nooB compared to most

[feel the force]

i found the light when i was lookin for pics of sports:) how i used to dream of having one:roll: non the less i dont have one but in 1 year of driving ive had a mk1 1.2 2xgsi and my present almost mint mk2 project

[novabex]

I dont actually remember... it was a long time ago now! lol

[Geth]

I found NL when I spotted a 32/34 carb on ebay (which is now sitting under the bonnet of Lee's SR). I wanted to find out a bit more info about the carb before purchasing so googled it with the word Nova attached and stumbled across the features section. IIRC That was shortly before the last revamp of the site.

[wisewood]

i hope that was a private road wisewood, doing them speeds on the motorway is silly :p

might as well have been private, it must've been getting on for 4:30 at that point. I made it back to mates' in sheffield at about 5:30am.

I was the only one on the road most of the way home, a few lorries aside. I did go blinding past a police car that was coming down the sliproad too, but figured i might as well just keep it planted and hope he didnt follow me lol

[Jim]

Found it back in 1999 when I had just finished school for the summer. Bought my first nova in 2000, and then i signed up to the forum around 2001. Think i originally found it on yahoo!

Keith
You finished school in 99? That must make you about 23/24...Fook, you only look about 12, lol ;) Thats how you get your minters, you use your young boyish looks to con old ladies, lol.

[hendrix]

can't actually remember how I found it but it was deffinately not from Google. Maybe have been from nova-land?:confused:
Been viewing forum since 2002 when I got my first Nova

[Matt2107]

Through Yahoo while searching for body kits I think.

[dhdev (Oli)]

Well just thought I'd let you know that you all missed out on a fun day. Mr Storey & I were giving large more ways than 1. Ian was using his special smoke screen mod (no oil catch tank) to confuse the other cars in his group and I was using my special oil applicator onto my left hand front brake mod which gave everyone behind me the distinct impression that i was about to lose it big time ( had it covered of course *cough* :oops: ) I had to stop and re- route my oil breather

There was almost every conceivable sort of Nova there and all having a great time. It was divided up into engine sizes so everyone could have a good old tussle with similar cars. There were about 30 cars there in all. Brett Warburton was there and his car goes as well as it looks. Big respect to him for giving it a right good thrashing and managing to get it to spin :D. Ian was the fastest 2.0l in the session I went out with him in and there was a nice TB'd 1.6 16v Nova belonging to a guy called Olly which was right in amongst the best of the 2.0l. Most of the standard Novas were giving good value for money with a Nova Sport right on the pace as well. There was a bit of a scruffy looking 1.4 on Twin 40's that was leading its class and sounding great

There's like to be more of these in the future so try to come along as they are the best fun and Novas are brilliant track day cars even in fairly standard form cos they handle so well.

ps there are some piccys on MIG if you are interested
Think that was my first discovery of Novaload, was searching for pics of my car after the PNG day at Brunters :cool:
Even back then I was harrassing the bigblocks :D

[Ash]

i started one of these threads a while ago. Anyway, it was ben gunn's (novaben) window sticker on his gold 5 door.

[RJM25R]

Met Ian Storey at Max Power 2000 or 2001 (when it was a good show!) and he told me to log on. He said that my smooth lingo and great attitude would charm everyone...

Oh, hang on... He didn't say that, he said I'm a northern gob$hite who'd ruffle a few feathers with these southern shandy drinking poofs. You know who you are!

[RJM25R]

Think that was my first discovery of Novaload, was searching for pics of my car after the PNG day at Brunters :cool:
Even back then I was harrassing the bigblocks :D

Would love some pics from the nova's vs corsa day (i assume thats what you are on about?) for my Old Skool thread....

Have you got any?

[MyNovaSr]

word of gob

[Rexy]

I think Ian storey/ste sander/ste proctor threw Cruise Northwest IIRC or was i the big cheese in the sky... really cannot remeber but ian storeys xe at the time made me want an xe nova for years... back when i had a **** box blue nova with half the door in filler OUhhhh yeah...

Oh and Yes i am a proven fact that a 1.2 can beat a 2.0l Carpark racing at its finest :)

[sh0rty]

well hello :P long time me no post !

I found it courteousy of Mr Kev himself, used to come on here loads just to chat seens as I drove a Pug, now a Clio. Thought Id pop back and say hello to everyone, now that the other half has been working and chatting about it lots lately.

Hows everyone? Stu, Fester, Rexy, and few other I met at karting etc. Dave? Jim? the brummy guy, Chris16v? uhm and the rest :D

[Rexy]

waves at sammeh... now get back in the kitchen and make me a brew... and tell kev to get me some PIE!

[CP]

Think that was my first discovery of Novaload, was searching for pics of my car after the PNG day at Brunters :cool:
Even back then I was harrassing the bigblocks :D

Feel the force Luke. My work here is done lol.

Can't believe any of the total drivel I've posted on here for so many years has actually had a positive effect on someone!!:eek: lol

Happy Days:D - that was a great day out!

I found the site searching alta vista when my son wanted a Nova for his birthday aroundabout 1999 and one thing inevitably lead to another and we started modding it up. I used to lurk in the Tech section cos I didn't dare play with the big boys in the main forums - I might have caught one of them there 'pooter viruses:roll: lol

My son flogged the Nova to me to go to uni and piss it up the wall. I got to know a few of the old school off here and ended up meeting them. I think my first meet was at MK with Jim, MC et al pre-Willen Lake days when Ian Storey and the northerners came down and gave me taste of valver power:thumb:

NL always had, as it does today, something going on and you would always bump into peeps off the site whether it was at Donny race course, S.Pod, MK or Southend. The biggest thing for me has been the friendships that have developed from it and the absolutely brilliant fun I've had in mine and other peoples Novas.

[Dave]

think i found it from the old novatrader all them years ago,
watched the forums for a bit then signed up as 'white-nova' then bullied kev into deleting his dads user name an became 'Dave' lol

that wa in the days that novaload chat was used every night lol

[wisewood]

ahhh good old novaload IRC. Shame that died off.

[Gaz1300SR]

I used Migweb quite a lot and heard about it via there! :)

[Breeny]

I havn't got a clue tbh... lol

[Jim]

I havn't got a clue tbh... lol
We know, but where did you hear about NL?

I remember those IRC days, well nights. Pissed as a fart chatting rubbish to MC's girlfriend at the time, lol.

[Mike.]

i found novaload through google, nearly 3 years ago now:eek:

[Jack]

With talk of IRC, its worth noting that gabbly is a chat app that can sit ontop of whichever site you're using

Link for Novaload is here (http://www.gabbly.com/www.pngclub.com/forum/)

[Ian]

We know, but where did you hear about NL?

I remember those IRC days, well nights. Pissed as a fart chatting rubbish to MC's girlfriend at the time, lol.
i remember southerners who couldnt take the banter and used to leave in a nark