Y REG NOVA ALERT OMG

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

 

Nearly spaffed in my boxers when I saw this honey moored up! The geezer in the pics is the owner - found it on the back of a scrap lorry and rescued it. Only done 38thou from new and is as straight as a die.

 

She's May 1983 and the Nova was launched in April. This might the the oldest one left? Cost £3935 new.

[Bobthebeard]

Slight twitch in boxers here also!

On a scrap lorry? Why?? Looks sweeet!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

On a scrap lorry? Why?? Looks sweeet!

 

Never underestimate how dim folk are. Perhaps the old dear died, the Nissan Juke owning braid dead Hello!! readingn daughter wanted to 'get rid of that old* car' in the garage etc etc.

 

 

*Old being of course useless and rubbish.

[Alexg]

Look at that - YUMMY!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Holy moly that is class! could only be betterd if it had a ‘GNK’ Luton numberplate with the funny ‘almost Serck’ font that old Vaux’s used to have in all the press photos. Tell the lad in the pic that he has done some great work there.

[Bobthebeard]

Boxer twitch now progressed to a raging semi!

Autoporn at its best...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Holy moly that is class! could only be betterd if it had a ‘GNK’ Luton numberplate with the funny ‘almost Serck’ font that old Vaux’s used to have in all the press photos. Tell the lad in the pic that he has done some great work there.

 

It still has the original Sheffield Voxall dealership plates. These were cracking little motors, espeshully with the 1200 OHC naughtly lump. Forget Metroes, Fezzers etc, these were far better. And a Y plater is cybersexautoporn.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fully agree, a 1200 one of these was still getting its c0ck out and wazzing all over the slow-witted opposition from Ford & BL even at the end of the 80’s.

[M'coli]

That's a wee cracker!

[HMC]

Must have been garaged as the paint is still quite red looking. The arches look good too. Last time I saw a y plater was in my schoolboy read 'anatomy of the car' by Jeff Daniels

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The arches are Virginal. The N'S front wing has been painted but that apart it's absolutely original. The owner told me that he needed to weld a couple of small patches underneath - not bad for 29 years old.

[trigger]

I had a Nova 1200 as my first car, To me it went like a rocket, got 95mph out of it once with a cloud of blue smoke behind me, It's unbelievable to think someone would scrap a car as tidy as this, It also makes me sad to think of how many other cars have be scraped in the same manner too.

[AeroNautiCal]

Good Save!

 

It beggars belief that someone would want to scrap that!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Aye, but it's in safe hands now. The Guy who owns it also races Novas in a hot rod series of some sort. Knows it's a rare beast.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Holy moly that is class! could only be betterd if it had a ‘GNK’ Luton numberplate with the funny ‘almost Serck’ font that old Vaux’s used to have in all the press photos. Tell the lad in the pic that he has done some great work there.

 

Thinking about it, there's an L or M reg Corsa knocking about with it's 'BH' Lutonshire plates intact. Will get a photo l8r.

[dollywobbler]

That's super. It's even got the 'wrong way' rear wiper that only the early ones had. Great that it's been saved!

[Spiny Norman]

Cracking find, They were great wee cars, far better in many ways than the first Corsas.

I can still remember pedalling a rather tatty but game little 1.2 special edition one (can't remember what it was called) up to a car club bash at Doune yonks ago. I didn't know the way there and was having to follow a friend in an Aston Martin DB6, and he was driving 'enthusiastically' shall we say, so I had to wring its neck a wee bit.

 

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[Cavcraft]

What's even better about Novas these days is that they've mostly shedded cockwarbling boy racer owners and are recognised as being a cool little car.

 

Your mate is a very lucky bloke Rev, and good on him for saving it from scrap.

[oldford]

I can remember when they came on fleet with Europcar, they were such a revelation at the time and so much better than the MK1 Renault 5s, Fiestas and Metros we had at the time.

 

Trigger 95mph, you couldn't have been trying hard enough, I had 75mph out of one in second gear.

[Black_GT]

That's gorgeous, so glad it got saved!

[phil_lihp]

Nice save, looks even tidier than the flame red 1988 5dr I just put back on the road, these are going up in value bit by bit, especially 3drs that haven't been hit with the pikey stick.

[Split_Pin]

Thats trouser-tentingly awesome, my laptop is now firmly jacked up at one side. Did you catch what his plans are for it (hopefully to enjoy as-is!)

 

A neighbour over the back from my folks used to have an identical model registration VSC813Y or 831Y. It was scruffy before its time as he was a builder and it was his hack but I remember it was identical to my Corgi model of one.

 

The youngest son of my folks neighbours who owned the Sterling had an E-reg Club model like the one in Studebakers photo. He ended up spaffing it into an Allegro USA243X that was always badly parked round the corner from us one night when he drove off without demisting the screen.

 

These really are being more appreciated now as they are rather then fitted with a well known 2 litre engine from a Calibra that 'was in a rear end smash honest', which actually has a porus head, fucked piston rings and a cam cover gasket made from butter.

 

Top bombing to the fella!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Thats trouser-tentingly awesome, my laptop is now firmly jacked up at one side. Did you catch what his plans are for it (hopefully to enjoy as-is!)

 

 

I believe it's being kept bog standard and it is seemingly used every day. I've not driven a Nova for years but I bet it's a revelation to drive now - properly small, huge all round vision, tidy handling, pokey with sharp throttle response and it'll still do 40+ MPG like my 1.3SR used to. In other words, better than the Corsa they make now and all the other sub supermini stuff like the Nissan Note, VW Up Yours! and the rest of the forgettable tat.

[face]

I had an original 1300 Sport and later a 1.4SR.

 

They were both great little cars, although the Sport was a bit of a dog to keep running correctly with those huge carbs.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I remember the Sport. Were they white with the yellow and grey stripes - and was it a conversion or a factory model?

[face]

That's the ones, they were produced as a homologation effort for rallying. Dealer fit I think.

 

 

Essentially a base model with SR suspension, engine and interior (minus any luxury features) plus twin 40's and I think a GTE gearbox.

 

Mine had some 14" steel BMW wheels.

[RedSparrow]

Lovely stuff. Nice to see one that hasn't been dicked about with.

My first car was a 1.0 Nova. The base of the base models.

[Tartan58]

I used to hate Novas with a passion back in the day - 2 mates each had one, a E-reg and a J-reg both 1.2s in Pogweasel Pink. I guess they had an 'image' back then.

Now though, I reckon time has treated them well styling wise(those that survive unmolested anyway) and to my eye they're much better looking than fiestas/polos etc of the day (15/20 years ago I thought the exact opposite!) - I'd love a standard pre-facelift one to knock about in now.

[Chip]

I must have been spoiled - first car was a J-reg 1.2i Luxe Plus. Performance wan't brilliant and I never rated the handling - but it did several light years to the gallon.

[stuboy]

love it loads