Nova Gte

[crossy10]

After a long search and looking at a lot of rust buckets I had given up hope of finding a decent Nova.

I placed a wanted ad on Gumtree regularly and was offered a number of curse word shells/cars regularly.

And then i recieved a text last week "Ive got a solid GTE here"

Few texts exchanged, I went to look at it last friday.











as you can see it isn't very GTE like. No Vinyl, no grille, a horrible smoothed front bumper, SR rear bumper, painted side skirts and GSI interior.

But it was solid, with 34k miles on the clock and mot history showing 32k miles at last mot in 2007. Its the only Mot on the online database so unsure if its genuine miles or not. Certainly runs well.

So I bought it and picked it up on the Sunday



And into its resting place while i gather parts to restore it to its former glory.



If anyone has or knows of any GTE parts, please drop me a PM.

[darrenh]

it doesnt look half bad! among your list of don't likes, some might consider the speedline clitoris alloys as a negative point too a non XE'd nova must be statistically unheard of these days

are you going full OEM?

p.s i had a gte with F955 prefix, how odd !

[crossy10]

I think I've sorted a set of standard Gte wheels, but I'll keep the speedlines for a change now and then.

Sourced a front bumper and also a full vinyl set.

There are a few other bits annoying me (pattern wings don't sit properly and have no repeaters). They will do for now but I will try and get oem parts as and when they become available.

[novamadash]

Looks well I've got a mk1 nova with a e16se motor whats going in. Gte kit going on. Are you on png?

[crossy10]

Mar 2, 2017 22:06:58 GMT novamadash said:

Looks well I've got a mk1 nova with a e16se motor whats going in. Gte kit going on. Are you on png?

Yeah mate, I'm a club member on png. Have been for years. Not much happening there these days.

[richie]

Oh the memories..
Would love a Jamaica Yellow early SR for my collection.

As said hope you put it back how it should be, will be a rare beast for sure.

[novamadash]

Yes is too quiet on png these days.Facebook has killed alot of forums .Defo put it back to standard.

[retrowrongun]

I have a pair of side skirts for one of these if any good to you

[novamadash]

Are you going back to amber indicators? If so how much for the clears?

[crossy10]

Mar 3, 2017 8:48:37 GMT retrowrongun said:

I have a pair of side skirts for one of these if any good to you

You have a pm.

[herusix]

Would love a Jamaica Yellow early SR for my collection

Like the proverbial unicorn ****, they have all just disappeared from the roads.
Agreed a early SR would be pretty special nowadays.

[crossy10]

I'm trying to get a Jamaica Yellow sr myself to add to the collection. I know of one and I have first refusal on it if the owner doesn't start restoring it this year. So fingers crossed.

[darrenh]

Mar 3, 2017 6:50:28 GMT novamadash said:

Yes is too quiet on png these days.Facebook has killed alot of forums .Defo put it back to standard.

this forum is heaving with turnover despite facebook?

maybe its just the people that were in their 20s, living at home rent free, spending all their expendable on modding novas/astras/cavaliers between 1998-2008 are now 40, have as wife, 3 kids, house, two car garage with a citroen picasso and a 4 year old bmw M135i and therefore don't feel they have any business (interest) visiting a nova forum ? just a theory

i carried on owning 80s vauxhalls the whole time so kept a presence on those forums

[OUTRUN]

Don't tell PNG the place is dead, they don't like to hear it. They retaliate by claiming all car forums are, and we know this isn't the case!

[crossy10]

So i sourced some standard wheels, with 4 centre caps just have to collect them



And a parcel arrived from Poland...



Standard front bumper. And this should be with me any day now -



I'm pretty confident I have sourced a pair of new old stock wings and some new old stock headlights and orange indicators.

Hopefully get those sorted soon and then in for paint before the vinyl goes on.

Now onto sourcing a good Gte interior to replace the wrong Gsi one thats in it.

[Mercdan68]

Interesting car that , a mate had a new gsi back in 1990
Rare car now, not one I liked back in the day, but a rare car now, and I'm following this!!, png?? Never heard of it, stay on RR it's by far the best car forum
Good luck with the build bookmarked
Danny

[kikiichiban]

Love them, such cool little cars. Watching this with interest.

[crossy10]

Mar 22, 2017 18:52:27 GMT Mercdan68 said:

Interesting car that , a mate had a new gsi back in 1990
Rare car now, not one I liked back in the day, but a rare car now, and I'm following this!!, png?? Never heard of it, stay on RR it's by far the best car forum
Good luck with the build bookmarked
Danny

Yeah getting rare now. Hoping to have it done for summer.

Been following George's escort thread. Car looks great and that plate makes me chuckle every time I see it 😂

[skkylinedave]

Really loving this , its so long since i have seen a good one . Really liked them in the 90s until they started with the big lairy body kits and they became chav central .

Lad i went to college had a black GTE in 1999 which was well nice . Brother had a red SR in 97 .


My dad used to work with the bloke who bought the Jon Shields turbo Nova . He bought that as the Escort cosworth he had before was being targeted a couple of times a week by thieves .

[njw]

Reminds me of my mates old Nova, it was a red 1.2 'Flair' so had all the SR interior/trim bits, we lowered it (a lot!), stuck some 15" Cavalier alloys on it, fitted a Laguna splitter (remember them?!), a cherry bomb back box and put some huge subwoofers in the boot. Good times!

I've just remembered my other mates brother had a yellow 1.3 SR too.