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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    Yes, I have a receipt from Ant from when he had the car re-wired in Penzance, so that makes sense.
    With all the other boxes of bits in-situ, I didn't notice the floorpans, but there are plenty of pop rivets in other places ;-) Do you know anything else about the history of the car?
    Steve
    Ant made 241 posts on the forum, some of which will have been about the car you now have. If you search for Ant under the forum members you can find them all.
    Best of luck with your build.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MicksRedNova View Post
    Steve
    Ant made 241 posts on the forum, some of which will have been about the car you now have. If you search for Ant under the forum members you can find them all.
    Best of luck with your build.

    Mick
    Found them - thanks; looks like Ant sold-up in 2014.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    Yes, I have a receipt from Ant from when he had the car re-wired in Penzance, so that makes sense.
    With all the other boxes of bits in-situ, I didn't notice the floorpans, but there are plenty of pop rivets in other places ;-) Do you know anything else about the history of the car?
    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    It was the 1980's, the world was different, I had hair; sometimes it fell in frount of my eyes ;-)

    Yes, I remember if well (both the 80's and my hair)!

    Looks like a nice project Steve- looking forward to hearing of progress.

    Cheers,

    Colin

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by steve View Post
    .... The Nova build manual suggests attacking (lowering) this area with a club hammer so that the long track rod doesn't foul on the frame head, that's not an ideal solution either.
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlueNova View Post
    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.
    It helps if you remember to actually post a photo!!

    torsion bar over front frame.jpg

    Alistair

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by BlueNova View Post
    It helps if you remember to actually post a photo!!

    torsion bar over front frame.jpg

    Alistair
    Yipes! The original idea was to make a depression in the top of the tunnel, not bend the track rod!!!
    only Pythagoras can save me now!

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