Omg! Hammonds crashed a nova!

[7ova]

Just bumped up the forsale thread of this nova SRI

Guy called "bigman 78" had it
Wonder how much the BBC paid?

[Spudly]

My brother had a late J plate 1.4spi nova and the hazard didn't work on that. I thought Vauxhall had modded the loom or rectified it on from late J's onwards. I was surprised it worked on TG's K plate...

Works on all of them, you need to have the switch in the 'on' position, otherwise it doesnt work, had load of peeps tell me it didnt work on theirs as they were turning the switch 'off' as they pushed it back into the slot.

Only for me to come along, put it into the 'on' position and watch their faces sink as the dash lights up


And the eagle eyed ones will have spotted that it didnt have a passenger window winder, because its an SRi and has had the drivers door replaced with a manual window door, electric window still in place on the passsenger side, and manual keep fit window on the drivers side

[millworm]

Just bumped up the forsale thread of this nova SRI

Guy called "bigman 78" had it
Wonder how much the BBC paid?

they said 750 didn't they?

[Hobbit]

If I still had TBO I'd happily offer it up for them to let the stig set a time round the track in. Knowing them it would swiftly be ended with a piano from 100ft after. They will never give the nova any kind of respect, but at least it won no point getting our knickers in a twist. Looking forward to what happens next

would happily offer mine up for some abuse by the Stig.

[8valve-craig]

. Respect as last car standing

Technically the Golf was the last car standing, as to me that looked like a mk4 they blew up.

[mowgli]

Why is everyone so worried about posting ways to get in to a Nova.
1, they are old so are easy to get in too.
B, there are hardly any on the road now.
3, who the funk would steal one now... I guess it's cause they are easy, but wouldn't make anymore.

benn, I spent several months in a frantic game of cat & mouse with a group of towrags back in the mid 90's trying to keep possession of my A reg beige hatch.. I won, but we even had to have the police do regular drive-bys... I really wouldn't want to do it again

[Stuart]

benn, I spent several months in a frantic game of cat & mouse with a group of towrags back in the mid 90's trying to keep possession of my A reg beige hatch.. I won, but we even had to have the police do regular drive-bys... I really wouldn't want to do it again

That was nearly 20 years ago ..... One would hope scumbags would steal something a bit better than a nova for nefarious activities. You've got to have an epic dildo of a thief to want a nova (unless of course its an insurance job....)

[andyredtop83]

Just saw this episode, it was hardly a fair race using a golf gti, a fiesta xr2i but only a nova sri, should have been a gsi to make the race fair but the nova still won the hillclimb and was going past the 1.6 16v fiesta before Hammond wrecked it. I remember being given a lift in a SRi once and couldn't believe how quick it was for a 1.4 8v. Did these come with the F13cr gearboxes like on the GTE's/GSi's?

[marc69]

That was nearly 20 years ago ..... One would hope scumbags would steal something a bit better than a nova for nefarious activities. You've got to have an epic dildo of a thief to want a nova (unless of course its an insurance job....)

I had an epic dildo of a thief trying to nick my Nova even though there was an alarmed car in front of it blocking the drive a few months back.

[Jack]

To be fair, a Nova would actually be a pretty good choice of car to nick. Most are dead easy to get into, dead easy to hot wire and 90% of them have XEs so will have at least a weeny bit of poke for a few minutes of wheelspinning through various gardens. Or breaking and gumtree'ing!