Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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Worthy of a feature in Total Vauxhall?
I want honest answers and I want to know why if you think its good enough to be featured and why if you don't think its good enough to be featured.
I also want to know what needs to be done if its not up to feature standard.
Kind Regards
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Jackooo
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yes it is feature material.... is a clean example of how a nova should be.... maybe get engine cleaner up etc  make it emmacualte (even more than it is!!!)
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Carr
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From what I've seen yes.
Just get some shiny bits for the engine bay or whatever
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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Just to make you aware as well.
I have rear discs going on as soon as me and Lee arrange a date.
I have a new rear bumper that I need to take down to have sprayed due to the one on there at the moment having a slight dip in the middle. The engine now looks tidier, but still needs some paint to freshen it up so will have a word with bodyshop to see if they can do something with it (more than likely) and will speak to Lee at Fusion about some supension turret covers in chrome and I need to get a catch tank now I have a Mantzel so that will be added as well.
The headlining needs doing, but I was thinking a DIY job with sub box material for the time being
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Robbo
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Yes, its a very clean example
With the work u are suggesting think a feature is nigh on guaranteed 
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Adam-D
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Fear
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Yeh its deffo feature worthy id say, especially with the plans you have!
Total vauxhall are so hit and miss though, ive been told no yes no yes, the last yes was at PVS and im still waiting to hear back, they are abit slow apparently and need a bit of harrasing!
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Worthy of a feature in Total Vauxhall?
I want honest answers and I want to know why if you think its good enough to be featured and why if you don't think its good enough to be featured.
I also want to know what needs to be done if its not up to feature standard.
Kind Regards
I'll take the photos 
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by vibrio
quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Worthy of a feature in Total Vauxhall?
I want honest answers and I want to know why if you think its good enough to be featured and why if you don't think its good enough to be featured.
I also want to know what needs to be done if its not up to feature standard.
Kind Regards
I'll take the photos
I'll do the write up, as there write ups are dreadful 
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Ojc
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Originally posted by Fear
Yeh its deffo feature worthy id say, especially with the plans you have!
Total vauxhall are so hit and miss though, ive been told no yes no yes, the last yes was at PVS and im still waiting to hear back, they are abit slow apparently and need a bit of harrasing!
Your not the first to say that, heard a lot of rumblings about it on MIG.
Noticed this month it seems to be lacking in features, it has PVS and Brads Corsa and Jims Nova which are exceptional cars, oh and that Astra GSi but other than that it seems to be loads of ads at the back.
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SwN
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Yes Defo feature worthy , some of the novas in the past in the mag have been rank . 1 that i thought didnt deserve in it was the red/white rally theme one , granted it may be fast etc , but the bumper was hanging off the alloys were a state etc . yours is 100000x better ,
Scott.
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MatG
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not really as it offers nothing new.... dont mean to offend but its just what they will say to you.
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Ojc
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Originally posted by MatG
not really as it offers nothing new.... dont mean to offend but its just what they will say to you.
Yeah that is I would expect them to say, BUT did that rallye theme one tell us anything different?
They had a proper chavved up Calibra in there a few issues back with E-Tec spoiler on it
I've sent them a e-mail.
Will wait and see.
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Fad
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In my opinion yes as i know a lot of time and effort has gone into it to make it a clean example.
But to the average reader of TV (not myself anymore) its just a clean nova on speedlines.
As Fear mentioned before its sooo hit and miss they seem to like chaved up lairy cars recently...I mean look at brads feature
In all honesty just lookin at Brads feature it dont look bad at all...maybe TV is on the way up....
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corb
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Why do you want it featured? Whats the big thing about getting it into a magazine for you ollie?
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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There is'nt at all, I'm just jealous of Brad.
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
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We know how your car started off & I think thats why its liked so much. TV might not recognise this though
I would like to see it in there
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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yes deffo IMO
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Jamie Walby
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I would say it's def worth a feature!
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Demo
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i would say its worthy of feature oliver but total vauxhall has gone downhill since issue 1 IMO and is just full of chav shite (mostly).
what about CCC?
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jr
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CCC is dead, trackand race cars is its replacment
how about retro cars ollie ???. thats a proper magazine
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Demo
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there we go then shows when i last bought CCC
jr got the right idea going on tho. go for a feature in a mag whose readers will appreciate your car. not chavs who will view it as a nove on speedlines
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Skinz
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I would say no, although you have put a lot of work into it and it is very nice, there are thousands more examples out there of your car.
Also IMO i wouldnt want my car featured in any mag, when i had my corsa it had the opportunity to be featured but I didnt want it featured, thats not what I was doing it for.
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antscorsa
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looking at ur garage i think its really nice, so yeah but maybe u need a few more special touches, u still have the rear seats in, maybe fake floor to clean it up alot, make engine bay cleaner maybe some chrome or colouring.
i think its luvly tho
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Skinz
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I would say if you want yur car to be featured as it is now you need to do the following.
Strip rear and cage.
Go mad cleaning under the hood and get lots of powder coating and samco hoses on the go.
Rear disks (as you have already said)
Go mad under the car and in the archs cleaning, replace wishbones etc with possibly chromed examples
All in all get it as concours as you can
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