My 1985 moss green xe'd gl!
Right, as most of you are aware now, my old blue car has now gone to live with mr peester;
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82994
So this left me with a bit of a dilemma, my sport is way, way off ever being finished, and i wanted another nova, but one that wasn't so high maintenance, if you know what i mean.
So i spotted this on here, the day before my wife gave birth to our first daughter,
http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...ight=nova+1985
this was almost the same as my very first ever nova, way back in (ahem) 1993, so i mailed pete an offer, which he, at the time declined. I thought nothing more of it then, as baby evie arrived, and as you can imagine, novas were the last thing on my mind!
So a month or so later i log back in, and think " hmm, i wonder if pete did sell it?" so i fire off another e-mail, pete still has it, and a deal is done!
A month or so later i go to collect, and car is as described. It's by no means immaculate, showing it's 22 year wear! But it was original and i loved it!
the drive home was fun, my mate ian in his xe nova seeing if he could pass me at one junction, fire up the other side, and still beat me to the next junction down! it was however painfully slow, and the 4 speed box a mare. I did just have the intention of warming up the 1.2 a little, and fitting a 5 speed box.
Here's how it looked the day after i got it home;
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...n/103_1021.jpg
Here it sat for a bit, until spring came, but along with spring came another plan!
I purchased a coscast xe from mr dave marshall in summer 2006, and had plans to fit it in a 4 door saloon, but the right car never came along, so i decided to fit in in the gl! Now i can hear the purists amongst you now saying "nooooo fool" so i decided to do it in such a way that it could be reverted back to original if i ever decided. (i'm not sure pete would be too happy either!)
it made it to pvs this year, (only bloody just!) those of you that were on novaload/read tv will probably have seen it, 2 down from joff
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...v/100_1444.jpg
it's by no means finished, i have lots more bits to do, including 13's and some body tidying.
So i'll start soon with how i fitted the xe, up to how it looks now.
