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Oct 28, 2012 20:10:36 GMT
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Hello, I'm Leon and I'm 19 years old, I looked around on this forum and I decided that I want to share my cars with you from The Netherlands. (Try to learn some english too ;D) My love for the Corsa began when I got my first from my dad, when I was 17. We garaged it for a year at my grandparents farm, because is was a '86 model and it became an oldtimer exactly when I had my drivers license! In the Netherlands a car become an oldtimer when it is 25 years old and build before the year '87. So I was very lucky because it costs 80 euros for a whole year insurance! This is how I got it and where I garaged it:   A Corsa A1 form 1986 with a 1.0 engine. Then I bought an other corsa donor, got it stripped and then we built the 1.4i in the blue corsa!  But first we got something painted, and the front is new!   Donor Corsa:     And here we get to work!       Build a brigde:   end result:    But then I changed it again, and now it looks like this (On the DAF Deutsch Car Festival @ TT Assen)   Looks fine to me now, only wanna get some wide (good word?) steal, 8 & 7J. But then I got a fine offer 2 weeks ago! I bought myself another corsa! This time an A2 1988 with a 1.3 in it. I bought it like this (the black one):   Got some work on it:  Sanded the whole car, and make it look weatherworn, ratstyle. Then I put some clearcoat on it.     Then I put it back together, will be lowered some more            Need some more inspiration on this one  Signed me in on the forum because I saw the awesome Nova Saloon (blue) on the forum! Love it!  And I want to invite Nova lovers to our Dutch Corsa A (Nova) Forum, www.corsaa.nl and than on the left side 'Hét Corsa A Forum'. Please show your cars there! |
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2014 19:08:25 GMT by leonstr
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Onne
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Oct 28, 2012 20:18:26 GMT
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Welkom!
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1990 Mercedes W126 300SE
1997 Mercedes W140 S320L
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Oct 28, 2012 20:25:06 GMT
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thanks!
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Oct 31, 2012 23:17:31 GMT
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no nova lovers here? |
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Hi! Very cool Nova/Corsa you have The blue one looks very clean, nice work! Welcome to Retro Rides |
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pabblo
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My uncle had a Silver 1985 Nova 1.3 SR when I was a kid back in the early 1990's and although I have never owned one myself. Have always liked them an its good to see people that are looking after them as alot have been trashed and scrapped.  Nice story with the blue one. An liking what you done to it. The alloys really suit it too. The other nova looks alot better without the matt black paint.  Thanks for sharing. |
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2012 0:49:28 GMT by pabblo
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Hi! Very cool Nova/Corsa you have The blue one looks very clean, nice work! Welcome to Retro Rides Thank you! Got some inspiration for my rat? ;D My uncle had a Silver 1985 Nova 1.3 SR when I was a kid back in the early 1990's and although I have never owned one myself. Have always liked them an its good to see people that are looking after them as alot have been trashed and scrapped. Nice story with the blue one. An liking what you done to it. The alloys really suit it too. The other nova looks alot better without the matt black paint. Thanks for sharing. The rat will be lowered more, and wil scrape haha. Thinks this paint is better than the matt black to. Think I put some other rims on the blue one, Opel GT rims from steal Thanks for your reaction |
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Hi and welcome |
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Nov 14, 2012 21:58:47 GMT
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Got myself a bumper lip from a Golf 2 for my rat |
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pabblo
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Nov 14, 2012 22:28:20 GMT
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[/quote] The rat will be lowered more, and wil scrape haha. Thinks this paint is better than the matt black to. Think I put some other rims on the blue one, Opel GT rims from steal Thanks for your reaction [/quote] Keep adding the updates with both Novas always like to see some more pictures. |
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Okay! So here is finally an update to you. The Golf 2 bumper lip fit well, after some chopping   Lots of scraping! And today I add some yellow to my lights! One light:  And than the second:  All ready! No that took me 2 hours to do, but it was worth it!     And I also got a package with a vauxhall and novo logo's, never seen that in The Netherlands! En there were also English rear lights in it, without a backdrive light?? don't know how to say that right haha  The light are for the blue Nova. Hopefully I can do some things soon, tomorrow it will snow a lot |
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mclellanmac
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Couple of cool Novas there feller, welcome along!
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Mercedes 190e, Lovely
MK4 Golf GTi 20v Turbo, Dull, but always works!
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After a few problems with the engine, are already fixed, I thought the back has to go LOWER!! So i chopped some springs, en replaced them with the TA-Technix springs. Now the car is dropped another 4-5 centimeters. before:  Honda logo about 2-3 centimeter from the ground:  After:    Scraping Honda logo:  The mud you see was from a little accident, I lost my grip and missed a ditch by 10 centimeters, very lucky |
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Jan 24, 2013 18:57:10 GMT
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I had a crazy new idea in my head, en finally found a day (few weeks ago) to put some paint on my car! Like a tattoo. Did some cutting work in the evening:  Put it on the car, lot of work to get it right   How it looks like:    I think in real life it looks better. Now waiting for the weather to get into the paint, so the rust will come trough the paint, and than it's finished! There's a lot of snow here right now, so the rust will come soon! And I wanna put some extra 'tattoo's' on the car in the future |
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why did you go down the rat look, the blue was awesome. the car looked mint!
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There are two cars, the super shiny and very nice blue one and the once-black-but-now-gold ratty one.
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crazymonkey
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ummm....what was I doing again???
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Jan 25, 2013 11:25:11 GMT
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the rat one is that matt black later one. the blue one didnt go rat. And by backdrive light I guess you mean reversing lights |
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whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
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The are 2 cars yes. The rat was black, now it's gold or something like that. Haha reversing light thats the word I was looking for And thanks, I think the blue one looks very awesome, hopefully I can buy my neightbours audi full lether interieur! (dark blue) |
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Mar 19, 2013 15:23:06 GMT
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It's been a long time, but finally here is another update! Got myself a folding bike, just to put on the roof haha!    It's just for meetings But then there was the periodic vehicle inspection (required each year), and the result was that there was a long list of defects.. I doubted whether I should strip the car or just go for another year.. looked in my barn and found all the parts I needed, so I worked for 2 days and it come trough!! How it looked for the tests, lend some parts of the blue one It was very high at the moment     Afterwards I lowered it, with the rims of the blue ones. But the tires are higher and it's still nog low enough for me. Then on a day, I went to the scrapyard, and I find just a very nice panorama roof from a Renault Twingo! The day after I went there to get it!  Just very happy with it! And the lines to cut are already on the roof - I drove 3 hours saterday to get those rims:   4x100 13 inch 6J ET 30 And ordered some new tires sunday, to get even lower with the rat corsa! 165/55/R13 And the other rims go back on the blue one! Lots to do this month, because april 14th there is the first meeting of the season, DAF = German Car Festival. Hope to get you all updated! |
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