Sport Project 1990 to 2016 (hopefully)
Part 1 - 1990-1992
OK so a few of you will have seen some of my posts either on here or on Facebook about my Nova Sport. For those who don't, I will recap and make this the start point of my project thread.
So, I owned C67 between 1990 and 1992 during which it was a standard road car. The only bits of note that I had done to it whilst I owned it was had the cam replaced for the genuine Irmscher one (managed to blag that through the Car Care warranty I got with the car) and it was done at my local Vauxhall dealer, Millwards of Wirksworth. I have the invoice from this and the part number was 1406108 and all I paid for that job was £27.12! I will come back to this later in the thread no doubt.
In 1992, I had the car repainted at a local body shop. At the time, they couldn't find the decals and it only had the flash sections so I am ashamed to report that I think these were painted around. This is the car a few months before it went in - I had put some Kure-rust on every single chip on the car (I used to work in a disused quarry so it had a few) to protect it pending paint:
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At the same time, I fitted a new back box (£48.16 inc p+p direct from Steve Thompson Cars) and had the wheel trims repainted. I haven't found the photos of it after paint but it did to me seem a good job at the time. The car was always looked after by John Noble Engines and John himself always tuned/set it up, introducing me/it to running without the airbox lid. For those who know Derbyshire, on full chat coming up Slack Hill on the way home from a service was worth the cost itself.