Just popped in to see when my membership is due...
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Just popped in to see when my membership is due...
Not really an old old member, but not been here for a while.
No one will probably remember me but hello again :d
Main reason for popping back in, finally pulled my GTE out of storage and have a track day booked for next month, currently with no engine fitted and plenty of bits missing :roll:
Sounds like you have some work ahead of you, but it will be worth it to have it back on the road.
Yea should keep me busy for the next month or so
hi
Logged back in today for the first time in ages , just to say hi ����
Nearly 3 years since I started this thread, how time flies.
Happy new year PNG.
Happy new year guys!
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Bloody hell stranger how's tricks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riggy
I'll always pop back. Novaless at the moment. But on the hunt for a GTE or GSI. Fingers cross i'll have one in Feb. Been on the forum for 10 years.
Good mate , was thinking about you couple month back , found a load of old pics and was tagging people on Facebook haha , tagged your aidi because I don’t have you on there lolQuote:
Originally Posted by raymond
Jolly good yeah I recall aidi metioning it. I'm not on faceache mate that's why you couldn't tag me came off a few years back. Still got the old rallye not done.much with it still like. You got a rs or something now.
I still remember chatting to people on msn messenger haha I just passed 30 and I'm going to view a nova tomorrow. I've been clean for so long, I let myself slip
What you doing to view? Anything nice?
Going to have a look at tb16v's white track shell.
Just noticed you live in Ash Vale, I moved to Yateley 6-7 months ago
Ahhh, your only a few miles away, nice to know there's some local members, can't remember the last time I saw another Nova about. Nick
Flump o matic
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Originally Posted by General Baxter
put the grinder down
Just signing in & saying Happy New Year
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Hi Craig
Me too. Happy new year you filthy animals!
Happy new year everyone
Happy new year all! Hope you all have a good one :cheers:
Happy new year people :)
Place is as dead as ever I see.
Perhaps all of the 20XE owners are out having their doors blown off by Kia Piccanto’s and Hyundai I10’s?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy
Kev’s mother shouldn’t bother plugging the server back in, next time she hoovers under the bed. Haha
He will see sense one day, like when you get a full bank statement and realise you are still signed up to a direct debit to Britannia Music Club or some other, long defunct waste of money. lol
Happy new year.
Defunct and dead enough for the pair of you moany bitches to log in and post though...
Hahaha yess! Over 12 hours for a reply isn’t good though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart
How is life in the control room Stuart? Hope you’re well?
No replies, still better than Facebook tho
Yep,even I have it these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edd
all the car pages are a complete joke.
same questions every day about the same thing.
cant understand why people use it myself.much better for selling I’d say but for project pics it’s pathetic.
Facebook should be shutdown end of!!
I’d certainly vote for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by torquey
Andy you miserable sod, what's your last name! LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy
I'm on a few of the nova pages/groups and frankly they are all 95% selling, 4% questions and 1% pic whoring (rough numbers)Quote:
Originally Posted by Edd
If it were atleast 50/50 questions&chat/selling then I'd happily commit the demise of ALL forua to FB/social media but I think there is an element of lots of people just knowing WTF they are doing with a Nova/classic car now and all guides beit here or youtube or other places can be applied to what you need. Couple that with a large chunk of sub 30's who just dont care about cars the way we all did/do.
Someone mentioned about the mag and how it would be great to get that back... I bet even with ALL nova related groups/clubs working together you'd struggle to get one mags worth of stuff a year given that the all vauxhall mag looks like it struggles to fill pages with articles, mostly due to social media monetising stuff so you would pimp your own project/work to get money direct etc and gain scene points that way etc.
I'm not bitter at social media as its a phenominal tool if you want it to be (the much malinged VBOA is pushing its way forwards on there with decent results even if the most vocal are grumpy... isnt that the way ;) ), I think the whole car scene has changed a shit ton in the past decade and people have grown up to leave project cars behind, some have returned many havent and so on, add in the young ones (as said) dont seem to care about cars as much as we used to... maybe its parents not wanting them in "death trap" old cars, maybe its insurance, maybe its just that they have interest in other stuff.
Its a really weird one thats for sure, but on the flip side "the vauxhall scene" has gained two extra shows in just 18 months!!! that must be telling enough, granted it will show better once all have run for a few years but the organisers must see something there.
I think nowadays like Stuart says youngsters don’t seem to care much for older cars,in our youth,to keep up with the latest car trends you fit bass cannons and cherry bombs etc yourself,you tried everything yourself as modifying was a personal thing-even if most did look the same!
Now,all people seem interested in is the plate snobbery and finance pcp or whatever it’s called today.
The scene has indeed changed dramatically,but nothing can ever beat picking up a magazine a coffee and a browse through a project build or a good “how to” on a forum for me.I don’t give a fukk how many likes some post gets on Facebook.
Maybe forums will come back fashionable again,some still are very busy,the Land Rover/discovery forums I use are still busy and they are still good to read.
We don't want any fake passports you fucking bellend, fuck off.
I was discussing this with Tim @The Phirm the other week.
The landscape has changed, I'm 36, when I was 17-18 I couldn't walk into a dealership and buy a car on 0% finance, no deposit, free insurance for a year (well I could but it would have been a VW Polo or some such 1 litre beast)
So the options were buy something for cash and make it faster myself, that became a hobby and a big part of my life and here we are.
Now, however, we have 18 year olds able to walk into Audi and buy an S3 or RS3 or BMW and buy an M2, no deposit, 0% finance, mummy and daddy on the insurance.
Easy as, 400hp and very little concern, driver aids making it easy to drive. Instead of fast cars being a badge of honour, something you worked towards they were just an expected item.
I’d still buy a Nova if I had the money to buy a decent one, sadly though the parts have become worth more than they should have.
The internet has destroyed social “actual life” in general, everyone texts and messages via social media more and more...... get down the pub guys, have a drink and see human beings in real life lol
Credit has made it far too easy to buy things I could only dream of when I was young.
Very very true.Quote:
Originally Posted by House
Some valid points. I’ve never been on Facemuck, I think it’s the anaethema of real life.
i stand in the pub watching the rugby sometimes and glance around at all the jokers who are more interested in their phone than the match. It kills me a little inside.
I don't know the last time I logged on to be honest, but I'm still around!
Been off all types of forums for years now. That being said most forums are utter cr*p now-a-days. Filled with new age users that don't know how to change a light bulb... pretty much useless.
For me, buying a home and all the financial impacts that had, a serious career and starting a family all have taken a toll on any project work... priorities!
I still have the Nova, however.