Hey all I'm Sean, some may recognise my corsa project.
Here is my new project thread and the new car which shall ruin my bank balance and my sanity!!!!
Enjoy reading if you can be bothered.
The car is a 1984 1.2 8v Vauxhall Nova saloon 2 door Model. The saloon model is extremely rare in 4 door, the 2 doors being even more rare, hence why ive wanted one for years. The car has only just done 46,000 miles in 27 years so its not been driven much.Here is a bit of history as this is no normal car.
The car was purchased brand new at Twells of Billinghay on the first of august 1984, the car stayed with its original owner up until a few years ago until he passed away. The car was passed along the original owners daughter and put away in a barn for 4 years where a nice little mouse found a warm home and a chance to chew the rear seats. After talks with people the daughter was told it was worthless and was due to scrap the car, but a lad called james found out and bought it off her for £200 fine english pounds, he has had teh car since december 2010 and hasnt done much with it apart from look after it and give it any nessecary work. I found out about the car, which wasnt actually for sale according to the owner, told him how interested I was and how much I would look after it if one day I was lucky enough to own it. James eventually offered the car to me for £600. So after selling my alloys and mirrors from the Corsa project I foned him to tell him I was ready to buy the car. My v5 came through the other day so I'm and one very excited owner of a car ive wanted for a long time.
The car has such features as original tax disc holder, original dealer stickers in window, all original keys from 1984, original tax disc from 1985 from when the car was purschaed brand new, Original Number plates with twells dealership on them.
The car has its original owners booklet with it, which has the owners manual and the original Radio Manuals, still absolutely mint, Inside the owners booklet is a whole host of MOT slips, tax discs and Service Sheets dating back to the early 1980s.
I was lucky enough to be able to have a good chat with the previous owner about the car before I bought it and asked as many questions as possible and had a chance to check over the shell, lets be honest, novas are well known for being little rot boxes. I was happy to find that all the problem areas were solid, These include - battery tray, inside boot corners, floor pan, and arches. Sills have been replaced but they're not good enough so ill redo them, + Front lower valance has a section of rust which will be cut out and replaced hopefuly with a genuine GM panel.
The cars doesnt have much of a spec yet as in the early 80's they didnt have trim models so its just a Nova saloon with a brown dash, cream seats and windy windows.
Anyway ill let you all see what youve been waiting for! PHOTOS! Enjoy. Ive got plenty more to tell you about, and there will be lots going on once the project gets going.
Sean
Here is my new project thread and the new car which shall ruin my bank balance and my sanity!!!!
Enjoy reading if you can be bothered.
The car is a 1984 1.2 8v Vauxhall Nova saloon 2 door Model. The saloon model is extremely rare in 4 door, the 2 doors being even more rare, hence why ive wanted one for years. The car has only just done 46,000 miles in 27 years so its not been driven much.Here is a bit of history as this is no normal car.
The car was purchased brand new at Twells of Billinghay on the first of august 1984, the car stayed with its original owner up until a few years ago until he passed away. The car was passed along the original owners daughter and put away in a barn for 4 years where a nice little mouse found a warm home and a chance to chew the rear seats. After talks with people the daughter was told it was worthless and was due to scrap the car, but a lad called james found out and bought it off her for £200 fine english pounds, he has had teh car since december 2010 and hasnt done much with it apart from look after it and give it any nessecary work. I found out about the car, which wasnt actually for sale according to the owner, told him how interested I was and how much I would look after it if one day I was lucky enough to own it. James eventually offered the car to me for £600. So after selling my alloys and mirrors from the Corsa project I foned him to tell him I was ready to buy the car. My v5 came through the other day so I'm and one very excited owner of a car ive wanted for a long time.
The car has such features as original tax disc holder, original dealer stickers in window, all original keys from 1984, original tax disc from 1985 from when the car was purschaed brand new, Original Number plates with twells dealership on them.
The car has its original owners booklet with it, which has the owners manual and the original Radio Manuals, still absolutely mint, Inside the owners booklet is a whole host of MOT slips, tax discs and Service Sheets dating back to the early 1980s.
I was lucky enough to be able to have a good chat with the previous owner about the car before I bought it and asked as many questions as possible and had a chance to check over the shell, lets be honest, novas are well known for being little rot boxes. I was happy to find that all the problem areas were solid, These include - battery tray, inside boot corners, floor pan, and arches. Sills have been replaced but they're not good enough so ill redo them, + Front lower valance has a section of rust which will be cut out and replaced hopefuly with a genuine GM panel.
The cars doesnt have much of a spec yet as in the early 80's they didnt have trim models so its just a Nova saloon with a brown dash, cream seats and windy windows.
Anyway ill let you all see what youve been waiting for! PHOTOS! Enjoy. Ive got plenty more to tell you about, and there will be lots going on once the project gets going.
Sean
