joeseth17
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Ola Amigos!
for those of you that know me this is my new project, always fancied a nova so since seeing some mint examples at PVS the last couple of years. ive still got my corsa some of you might recognise it.
its my daily driver, ive just done my winter service, undersealing the whole underside and im going to be putting some g60 steelies on it.
anyways onto the nova...
my mate had a red nova for sale after he bought another one, i had helped him start to strip the car so i kind of knew what it was about. i was up for saving it until i got it home, a few taps of a hammer later and the holes started appearing. this was the red one,
i really wanted to save this but there was too much work involved for the time i have. whilst owining the red on i had gathered a lot of parts including windows, carpets, rubbers and interior bits. so i haad pretty much a full car to be getting on with just a rotten shell lol. then i posted on another site i was after pannels to try and save ANA (rednova) and a lad offered me a new shell that had been fully seam welded and was really clean, i decided to go and have a look and it was perfect for what i was after, a couple of bits of welding and a paint and it will be like new so i bought it
i stripped the red nova of anything i could and sold the shell to my mate who in the end scrapped it as he cudnt save it either.
this is the seco
nd nova its a 1.2 spin and is mint. it had no axles, steering colum or rack when i picked it up so all this had to come off the red nova whils it was off i painted up all the bits ready to get it back on its wheels for the first time in god knows how many years. last week started like this..
Red nova going to be scrapped whilst white one arrived
under a sheet on my drive
i started cleaning up the inner arches and welded a new liner on the front as it had rotten
painted the underside and stonechipped
back axle painted and fitted along with the fuel tank
gmax shockers and 100m springs fitted
on its bak wheels for first time
steering rack fitted after a quik silver paint
bottom arms and tie bars painted and fitted
then on its wheels for the first time in a few years i rekon!
thats how it stands at the moment!
plans are to make it a mk1 rep, wings have been ordered ive gt a brown mk1 dash and undertray to go in, all original windows with reg marks on the window are there, still undecided on engine and wheels. im not wanting the car to be a trailer queen so it will be made to be used!
more updates soon as doors are going on in the next couple of days....
[Edited on 16-10-2011 by joeseth17]
[Edited on 16-10-2011 by joeseth17]
[Edited on 05-11-2011 by joeseth17]
[Edited on 08-03-2012 by joeseth17]
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Jed D
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looking good Joeseth, i will be keeping a spy on this little beauty
you on png?
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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can i paint it
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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joeseth17
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No Jed im not, i sometimes scroll the projects tho to see what other people are doing.
Tom you could lol. But your maybe a bit far away from me though...
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Jed D
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XE going in then?
aren't the mk2 windows a different shade to the mk1s?
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joeseth17
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Maybe, but i doubt it one XE is enough for now. and as far as i know they arent lol
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Jed D
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probs wrong about that like but sure i heard someone going on about slightly yellower windows in a mk1 or something. anyhow, plans sound good for now lol, i like it
ahh, found out, mk1 sport and some other models had a bronze tint and the gte has a top green tint windscreen
[Edited on 16-10-2011 by JedDy]
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Tomnova16
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quote: Originally posted by joeseth17
No Jed im not, i sometimes scroll the projects tho to see what other people are doing.
Tom you could lol. But your maybe a bit far away from me though...
i can collect
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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AlexW
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ANA from Andrew? Didn't think it would be saveable.
Baby XE, Fitting guide over on PNG made by myself
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joeseth17
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Ana whent to the scrap yard mate, it wasn't saveable, I've used a lot of its parts tho so it will live on in the white one. Ill have a look at that thread matey!
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vaux.dan
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Did you get the White 1 of heds mate? Sell me those steelies on the White nova
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Mieran
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Did you buy this of heds?
You want them bits then? I haven't heard back from you yet.
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N16K
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nice build will keep on checking the thread for progress!
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joeseth17
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quote: Originally posted by vaux.dan
Did you get the White 1 of heds mate? Sell me those steelies on the White nova
Yeah that's the lad I got it off, and I could do, there 15inch steelies with 195 50 tyres pal
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joeseth17
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quote: Originally posted by Mieran
Did you buy this of heds?
You want them bits then? I haven't heard back from you yet.
Yeah mate got it off heds, I wudnt have bought it if I didn't have another nova to take all the bits off though. And yeah mate I want them I did txt u back and was waiting for your reply lol. Ill txt u today mate
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vaux.dan
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You pay 200? I was Gunna buy it but it was seriously fucking bare haha
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joeseth17
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yeah mate 200, got loads of parts with it tho, doors mirrors windows and more too much to list
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Mark.W
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Looks pretty clean that joe
Love a good clean nova and white is a big bonus too
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Mieran
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Never got the text otherwise I would have replied
But aye let me know whenever you want them
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Jed D
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sport rep i rekon
and as for wheels iv never seen them vw p slots on a nova before. they nice, quite rare and 14" although they did make a few sets of 15" wich are hella-rare, would look good imo
keep us updated
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joeseth17
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Nahhhh! P slots aren't what ill be after, something original or modern, I've got g60 steelies, 15 inch vaux steelis and some stepdown fanblades, fancy cesaros for it though so on the look out for a set of them really
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vaux.dan
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Cesaros ftw!!!! Think I'm Gunna get rid of my gti and buy a nova hatch and keep my saloon too
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joeseth17
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Just do the loon up! That's what I wud do dan
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Jed D
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4door loons have some mint potential like dan, cant find the pic of my mates old one but it was burgandy with white slags and it looked but then he binned it
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am4nf
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I love it the way it is just now
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