Anybody interested in this Nova?

[MrRegieRitmo]

My sister's Nova 1.2 5 speed is being offered around as a last resort. It failed it's MOT on a hole in the exhaust and a dodgy front wheel bearing. It's been lowered 30mm on a full spax or apex (cant remember which) fully adjustable kit and has Cavalier GSI front callipers and red dot brake discs. It has Cavalier steel wheels with lower profile tyres to keep the rolling diameter the same and to allow the bigger disc's to fit and all have good Toyo tyres with many miles left on them. The anti roll bars have been removed and it has a strut brace fitted to the front instead. The interior has been changed to one out of a GSI Nova so has the bucket style front seats that fold forward ( bit strange in a 4 door but allows you to get more stuff in the back) and the 70/30 split rear seat. Only 63k on the clock. A fair bit of history comes with the car. It's been looked after as a sort of fun hobby car handling wise, (the powerplant is as Vauxhall intended) & treated as such, not just an old shopping trolley. Bodywork is very good for the age, only 1 or two small areas of rust around the door bottoms.

 

They're open to offers.

 

Please ring Aidan if interested on 07749281502.

 

 

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I'll paste the link for you in my Vauxhall Club Website www.c-vox.com.Looks pretty tidy to me

[MrRegieRitmo]

I'll paste the link for you in my Vauxhall Club Website www.c-vox.com.Looks pretty tidy to me

Thanks appreciated

[wuvvum]

Your sister is called Aidan? Now that is an unusual name for a girl.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Your sister is called Aidan? Now that is an unusual name for a girl.

It is isn't it! No to be honest her actual name is just as unusual although a touch more feminine. Rosalind they call her, or Roz to us!Aidan be the boyfriend (hers not mine) who you'll get a lot more sense out of if you enquire about the car (except maybe at this precise moment as we've just returned from the pub!) rather than Roz who hasn't even passed her test yet!

[Split_Pin]

I've just had a query about the Nova from a member of my Vauxhall Club, whare about is it located? (Just general location dont worry - dont want every gippo in the land coming round with a hiab )Ta

[MrRegieRitmo]

South West West Sussex

[Split_Pin]

Okies I've posted up that info.I had to laugh as the link I posted to here kept being broken by the other websites filter by replacing 'Autoshite' with 'Auto*****'lol

[MrRegieRitmo]

Ah sorry I've mislead you. West Sussex is where we are but the car lives with my sister & her boyfriend which is Portsmouth. Sorry, I must have confused myself with those pictures which were taken at ours & the fact they're currently staying at our house overnight! Not too far away though in the grand scheme of things. About 25 miles West of here in Hampshire is the car's location.

[Volksy]

Regie, have you had beer and got confuzzled?

[MrRegieRitmo]

I might have not been thinking very clearly. I wasn't inebriated, just tired & very relaxed.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

A local car trader took a Nova Merit (a contradiction, surely....) as p/x and fired it straight to the local metal yard - not a breakers, a proper scrap metal place. He came back £170 richer...............He takes all his shite there now - when a scrap Mondeo makes £250 it's not worth dealing with mouth breathing council scummers ( 'wass y'bess price pal? What'll ye tek fo' cash Pal? ).

[Split_Pin]

I think this wee car deserves better than that^^ I think the point of A/S is to save cars like this, regardless if they are worth anything or not.

[MrRegieRitmo]

I think the point is we could easily cash in & scrap it or break it & sell all the bits & get alot more money that way but we'd rather somebody just had the car complete to use & have a bit of fun with as the previous owners have done. For this we're looking for less £'s then we could get if we took the easy option. I think my sister & her b/f would be happy to take 100 quid for this car & see it put to some use again. They paid about £400 for it last year & it only needs about another £100 tops spending on it to make it right again. The reason we're not doing this ourselves is because we were already looking to sell it before the MOT ran out as it was bought for my sister but she hasn't found it ideal to learn in & didn't really fancy it as her first car as she finds the controls a bit heavy, especially the steering. She's taken a shine to Aidan's 306 XS as it's obviously a much nicer drive which is understandable really.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It's a pity to scrap any fixable and running car, and it goes against all my principles. Said dealer weighed in a running (misfiring) 1995 Subaru Legacy and a running but rattly Toyota Previa today. He came back with just over 500 quid the pair after trying to sell them to various losers for two weeks. Sometimes you have to just give in.I worked out some years ago that selling a 400 quid banger is far harder than selling a car for £5000. As soon as you involve society's lower echelons it all goes tit shaped - they want perfection for peanuts.

[MrRegieRitmo]

It's a pity to scrap any fixable and running car, and it goes against all my principles. Said dealer weighed in a running (misfiring) 1995 Subaru Legacy and a running but rattly Toyota Previa today. He came back with just over 500 quid the pair after trying to sell them to various losers for two weeks. Sometimes you have to just give in.I worked out some years ago that selling a 400 quid banger is far harder than selling a car for £5000. As soon as you involve society's lower echelons it all goes tit shaped - they want perfection for peanuts.

Sounds like the same hard lesson wuvvum recently learnt. But you have to at least give these cars a chance......after that fair enough I suppose....in the cold light of day.

[r.welfare]

I worked out some years ago that selling a 400 quid banger is far harder than selling a car for £5000. As soon as you involve society's lower echelons it all goes tit shaped - they want perfection for peanuts.

Amen! I just hope that Mrs W's £2000 car is easier to sell than the one I sold last week for £400.

[pogweasel]

Amen! I just hope that Mrs W's £2000 car is easier to sell than the one I sold last week for £400.

Don't believe that for a second.Still got a £3.5k car sat here, 3 weeks of ebay & autotrader and not a sniff, just no-shows and chavs wanting it for "best price" (Yes, it's marked up at £3750, I would love to accept your £1500 offer).

[r.welfare]

Arsebiscuits! I could do with a hasslefree sale, given the shedload of DIY I'm having to concentrate on.You'd think that you'd have punters queueing round the block for your LPG-swiller, wouldn't you? Maybe folk are put off thinking it's GR8 4 REAR IMPACT EXPLOZIONZ, or something.

[AnthonyG]

Don't believe that for a second.Still got a £3.5k car sat here, 3 weeks of ebay & autotrader and not a sniff, just no-shows and chavs wanting it for "best price" (Yes, it's marked up at £3750, I would love to accept your £1500 offer).

Is that the Dual-Fuel Astra Pog? - £3750 sounds a bit steep for a 2000 Focus estate !

[Milford Cubicle]

Why don't they get it MOT'd especially if it just needs a couple of minor things fixing? Would make it a lot more saleable.