He bought it on Ebay, sight-unseen from someone in Scotland and had it delivered at great cost (he lived at Stithians) The car came with a range of unfitted engines, of various types (1 and 3) seemingly dozens of gauges, a Ford Escort rear bumper (and steering column I think) and little sign of the car having been on the road with the 'equipment provided'. Although Ant ran a beach buggy - I don't think he had anything to do with building it, and as he didn't posses a socket-set or seemingly any metric spanners it wasn't really surprising that the Nova didn't progress much under his ownership. The rewiring happened almost straight away, before much thought was given to how the car was going to be used/equipped (Which engine, fuel tank - whether it was going to have hydraulics etc) so was somewhat of an exercise in futility...I did some work on the car, but not a lot as it did seem I could spend my time more usefully elsewhere...
Last edited by Alzax3; 12-03-2017 at 07:23 PM.
It's a 52 year old car and everything works, just not always at the same time.......and it's probably about to get jealous!
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Interesting to see what you come up with to fill in that hole in the rear deck/window area.
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Steve,
I've recently (OK, I admit it, it was last year, progress is slow!) lifted my Nova body to expose the chassis after over 25 years being stuck together. This is what I found, chassis needs a lot of work, but on your point about the long track rod, mine's bent to go over the frame head. I've not checked to see if that's how they're meant to be, but I'd rather bend and adjust a long track rod than rip into a frame head. So put any ideas of a club hammer away!
Hope it helps,
Alistair
It helps if you remember to actually post a photo!!
torsion bar over front frame.jpg
Alistair
Could just go R&P.
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I've moved this thread to the "your cars" forum as it seems more suited to that now.
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