But I bet it didn't rustOriginally Posted by Mike
In 1903 the company built its first car, a five-horsepower model steered using a tiller, with two forward gears and no reverse gear
But I bet it didn't rustIn 1903 the company built its first car, a five-horsepower model steered using a tiller, with two forward gears and no reverse gear
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The decals were not fitted at the docks, they were done at the dealership. Remember the cars would have arrived in pod wax and they would not risk damaging the decals delivering the cars.Sports were Spanish the same as the rest, Vauxhall ordered tham with parts deleted from the spec & the stickers were applied at Portbury (bristol) docks, the Webers etc were all dumped in the boot (or fitted) at the dealership upon sale.
Only the trial decals were fitted at the docks to compare the designs.
The Sport carb kit could not be fitted until the car was registered to avoid the cars having to go through type approval.
This also goes some way to explain why there was only 417 Sports built as the remainder were made up with kits supplied to already registered Novas, mainly rally cars I would have thought.
They actually missed the homologation deadline and incurred big fines iirc
That is correct, it means will not.
Last edited by Novasport; 29-08-08 at 10:15 PM.
Theres 417 "REGISTERED" on papers as sports ?
There was originally 417 on Andrew Deurdens manifest, obviously rallying, rust and over enthusiastic driving has reduced that amount somewhat.
We all know of roughly 20 odd Sports kicking round still but the could be a few more out there still undiscovered. They are easily overlooked as a Sport if the graphics have been removed so a lot of people do not know what they are.
is there a list of chassis numbers/number plates of the gen sports available anywhere
Andrew Deurden has it. He will not let anyone have it either, I have asked.
Would be pretty hard to find the rest of the novas without decals and stuff...
Andrew Duerden sounds like a co(k!
I saw an old gimmer & his wife in a rusty Sport in a carpark some years ago, The chap really didnt look like he knew what he had or that he gave a funk about it. Rusty arches & so on. Was a Sport though.
Sounds to me like he just doesnt deserve it
when there's people out there like me that would KILL to have a sport
A D is the guy that worked for Vauxhall & was behind the commissioning of the Sport as a model. I just fail to see what he has to gain by withholding the info from enthusiasts.
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