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Alzax3
07-08-2011, 07:29 PM
Smart nearly on the road Mk1 with Mk2 dashboard but with a cracked windscreen....... (and judging by the size and position of the crack it will need a new screen before it would pass its MOT) Looks like it would be worth getting a screen for it though!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-1300-RED ... 3f0caa8ce9 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-1300-RED-KIT-CAR-/270795443433?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f0caa8ce9)

islandman
08-08-2011, 02:27 PM
some bits look a bit overdone, like 2 rear ends! 6 lights!

other than that its nice :afro:

essexdave
08-08-2011, 06:11 PM
Agree with Islandman, except that it looks like half a front end as well....... the exhausts exiting in different positions dont help either, other than that it has potential.

JemP
08-08-2011, 06:55 PM
mmmmmm, don't like the double back end, it doesnt work, and yes, this looks like a car in need of a new screen.

ant
09-08-2011, 08:24 PM
Looks a little over done i agree but still!!!

caterham7
15-08-2011, 01:30 PM
£2680!

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JemP
15-08-2011, 05:15 PM
Blimey!! I wonder if it sold! ;)

NovaF4
15-08-2011, 07:52 PM
I got told the other day that a very good condition VW camper van can sell for £12,000. For a vehicle that can barely go up hills! I'm always surprised actually how little Nova's go for. Having said that there's the average Nova and a very very good Nova, which can be seperated into two very different categories :wink:

G

JemP
15-08-2011, 09:50 PM
VW camper vans go for crazy prices, but there is a massive demand for them, and I have no idea why!! My friend has opened a business kitting them out, people spend fortunes on these things!

Spacenut
15-08-2011, 10:16 PM
They're cult vehicles - a lifestyle accessory if you will. Driving a VW bus says you are a cool surf type dude. To a lesser extent the Beetle has the same cachet. Unfortunately the Nova doesn't, and the prices reflect that fact.

I'm not sure any kit built car is regarded as being cool; most people seem to think that treating a car as anything other than an easily disposable asset is the exact opposite, and lavishing hundreds of hours on the construction of your own car is therefore about as uncool as it gets :outahere:

NovaF4
16-08-2011, 12:05 PM
Lauren, I think you're right. If we were going to have a 'cool wall' top gear style debate then I would have to admit to putting almost all kit cars into the uncool section. I'd hate to agree with the ignoramous Clarkson but in this case I think I would have to. The only kit cars I would include would be a few replicas such as a GT40 and the odd classic like a BRM, Lola etc.

I think what makes a car cool is one that doesn't fit into any category and one which no one really knows how rich or successfull the driver is, such as a Land Rover.

The very definition changes as one gets older anyway.

G

Spacenut
16-08-2011, 01:07 PM
The only kit cars I would include would be a few replicas such as a GT40

Surely any replica has got to be even more uncool? Can't afford the real thing? Buy a replica. I appreciate that to make a decent GT40 these days you need the thick end of £30k, and it is a timeless, gorgeous shape, but there again, so is the Nova. All deeply uncool I'm afraid :D

Lauren

PS - occasionally I find myself in agreement with Clarkson myself; now and again he does stop gibbering long enough to make some sense!

JemP
22-08-2011, 09:31 PM
Its back on, with a new seller, based in Bedfordshire - if this is the buyer who won the original auction, he might have a job on his hands shifting it on for the same money!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-1300-KIT ... 500wt_1156 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-1300-KIT-CAR-/120767494825?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c1e4dbaa9#ht_500wt_1156)

Spacenut
22-08-2011, 10:36 PM
Why do people do that :confused1:

Vasco Da Gamer
23-08-2011, 08:47 AM
If I had still been looking then I would have been tempted - add a grand to the price for a new windscreen, lose the spoiler, lose the ludicrous undertray thing on the back, remove the big rear fog lamps, paint the rear bumper black, dump the overdone double fogs at the front (perhaps single oblong ones) and it would be a nice looking car - especially with those great American racing style wheels.

Spacenut
23-08-2011, 12:38 PM
I does smack of overkill doesn't it? All that extra bling, and for what? Does it make the Nova any more attractive, knowing that you've bought half of Halfrauds?

Why do people do that?

:facepalm:

Lauren

Vasco Da Gamer
23-08-2011, 01:37 PM
:D

Ah well, beauty and the eye of the beholder and all that...

But yes, why on earth alter something which is already astonishingly beautiful?.... (I feel the same way about a certain young lady of my acquaintance and her recently acquired tattoo...).

JemP
23-08-2011, 03:10 PM
There is an art to subtlety, and often less is more!

Big Birds Car
23-08-2011, 04:33 PM
Steve, with a statement like that I hope your wife isn't looking over your shoulder :shock:

Vasco Da Gamer
23-08-2011, 05:10 PM
:whistling: Nothing dodgy :) , I'm old enough to be her father, but the tattoo is a real shame, it's a particularly ugly one - very much like putting a front spoiler on the back of a Nova....

undertaker
20-11-2011, 11:28 AM
Its on again guys !!!!! This time from bristol
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-KITCAR-S ... 9465165995 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVA-KITCAR-STERLING-EAGLE-KIT-CAR-THUNDERBIRDS-PINK-PANTHER-CAR-/250935848003?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3D LVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D4326582769465165995)

Undertaker :twisted:

Alzax3
20-11-2011, 02:35 PM
Now at double the price it last changed hands at, and no mention of the cracked screen - but the wiper is parked on the wrong (drivers) side in all the current photos, and is that a hint of crack and photoshop covering up in the view through the screen from inside? Anyways, that aside - good luck to him!

jimcub
21-11-2011, 11:48 PM
The first pic/vid is actually my car, so the seller may be martin of big boys toys. Not the first time I have found my car for sale on the net, whilst actually selling a different Nova.

Peter
22-11-2011, 11:13 AM
I'm always surprised actually how little Nova's go for. Having said that there's the average Nova and a very very good Nova, which can be seperated into two very different categories :wink:

G
As I have said in the past (Ad nauseoum) kit cars in general go for very low prices in the UK, even tidy, well finished ones. what sells for £2,500 in the UK would fetch at least 5.000€ or $6,000 abroad.

Simpatico
24-11-2011, 12:33 AM
The seller does indeed seem to be a complete knob.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOTUS-ELISE-S2-4000-PORN-X-PORN-STAR-PRIVATE-PLATE-CUSTOM-LIME-GREEN-/250938881162?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a6d1f748a

Spacenut
24-11-2011, 12:23 PM
Nice colour though :D

bushboy
24-11-2011, 08:12 PM
No one going to mention the red Nova in the back ground.....or were you all too busy looking at the other pointers.

bushboy

Alzax3
24-11-2011, 08:30 PM
Ohhhhhh yes! it was the green paint disguising it honest! :whistling:

Spacenut
24-11-2011, 09:12 PM
Ummm... I thought that was the whole point of Mark's post - its the same guy selling the red Nova. Caveat emptor and all that...

JemP
24-11-2011, 09:56 PM
The reg no. is P11 RNX - to me that doesnt read anything!

CyCo
25-11-2011, 09:50 AM
It's PIIRN X.

So then you use your 'clever' black capped screws between the 'II' to fasted the number plate to the car. It then becomes;

PI:IRN X.

You read it so the I:I makes a complete letter in itself, as it would appear to when viewed at a distance;

PORN X.

The 'X' could be viewed as a basic 'star' pattern.

Thus, it could be read;

Porn Star.

Personally I prefer;

6uldv8

:wink:

JemP
25-11-2011, 10:11 AM
Nope, its just P11 RNX

I've never understood this "personalised plate" malarkey. After all, if its personalised for you, why show everyone else? Its only people outside the car can see it! And why have your name (almost) on a plate? I know my name, I don't need a reminder of who I am, and I certainly don't to tell everyone else on the M1 who I am, because frankly, they don't care!
Its funny when a car is advertised as "complete with personalised number plate" and it reads something like B42RYT and in brackets he puts (reads like BARRY) - great, like I'll really buy the car and change my name by deed poll to Barry!!

If anyone is planning to drive around in a bright pea green Elise with bits of tape or fixing bolts on the number plate to make it read incorrectly, then they'd better leave plenty of time for their journey to make up for the time lost whilst pulled over to the side of the road!!

Spacenut
25-11-2011, 08:00 PM
I believe it is now illegal to have fixings used in this way to change the shape of characters. Also character spacing is now carefully controlled to ensure those number plate recognition thingies work properly.

There's a plumber just down the road from me, works for Pimlico Plumbers in South London. The company got some great number plates reserved for their vans - one was WC 10, but the one he uses most often read "THE WC" - only once the police had got hold of it, it read T11 EWC, which wasn't so convincing. A numberplate fixture had been placed between the two 1s to make it look like an H.

Sad really :facepalm:

Lauren

bushboy
25-11-2011, 11:25 PM
I totally agree with all of you just to be politically correct.

Far be it from me to alter my plate to mislead the public as to what my car really is at time........

I left that to Jason at Stones a few years ago

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y231/bushboy554/100_4601.jpg

BU51-1 80Y

bushboy
25-11-2011, 11:28 PM
My god

I just had a look at that photo & realised that my reek was clean at one point. Damn peter would be 0.275% proud of my effort.

Just as a side point, I pased the 30k miles marker today. Time for the first major service & a stamp in the log book :whip:

bushboy

Peter
26-11-2011, 01:28 PM
0.275%, that's pushing it a bit.

Spacenut
26-11-2011, 05:09 PM
Just as a side point, I pased the 30k miles marker today.

Congratulations! That really is an incredible achievement - the Green Machine hasn't even turned 20k yet!

(I am around about 19,600 at the moment)

Lauren

Alzax3
26-11-2011, 06:23 PM
And you don't look a day over 19,599 either........ :whistling:

bushboy
26-11-2011, 08:09 PM
0.275%, that's pushing it a bit.


:lmfao:

I like you Peter, you make me laugh.

Bushboy

Peter
27-11-2011, 09:11 AM
"If I achieve nothing else in life, I would bring joy to just one person and die happy". Can't remember who is credited with that but it has been in my head for years, probably from Kung foo the TV series, ha so grasshopper.

Spacenut
27-11-2011, 04:51 PM
And you don't look a day over 19,599 either........ :whistling:

Very kind, but I just noticed today that my odometer actually reads 20,800 :blushing:

jimcub
28-11-2011, 09:39 PM
Just as a side point, I pased the 30k miles marker today.

Congratulations! That really is an incredible achievement - the Green Machine hasn't even turned 20k yet!

(I am around about 19,600 at the moment)

Lauren


i have only done 11,500 in my daily drive in 3 1/2 years

MicksRedNova
29-11-2011, 01:54 PM
i have only done 11,500 in my daily drive in 3 1/2 years

Wish I could say that :shock:. I clock up more than that in 6 months - still it is my fault for living in Somerset and working in Wales. :nonono:

I look forward to getting the Nova carb issue sorted and adding some more miles to it next year. I think I only clocked up about 300 this year with all the breakdowns.

Mick

jimcub
30-11-2011, 12:38 AM
mines not even moving as the engine is still in bits, waiting for me to clean and rebuild it