some owners are mad !! Mk1 Nova

[bortaf]

Ok here's the back storey, a good customers of ours who we've restored a few mercs for over the last few years buys a car for his son, nice little Nova, spends over a grand after buying it, full respray recon engine ect, son drives it but didn't listen to the running in instructions and leaves it idling for an hour instead of driving it and glazes the bores, looses interest and decides he don't want it any more, dad decides no-one can make a profit on the car so my mate Andy buys it for £200 on the understanding it gets cut up
So we did
Well solid and still taxed and tested wouldn't even let it go for a race car !
the upside is the parts will restore the Nova 4Dr saloon i sold last year which needed and int and panles.

[MK2VR6]

Confused. That's not an Astra and why do you need parts for a car you sold last year? On a different note, the father is clearly a mental.

[Mercdan68]

That's not good but isn't that a nova??

[bortaf]

It's been a long day chaps, grinder packed up half way through chopping the front off and we finished it with a chisel LOL
yep Nova
i sold the Nova to the bloke in the pics who bought this for the parts to resto the other one, personly, i'd have just swapped the ID over lol
the roof will go on another Nova to get rid of the leaking rusted out sunroof, so 2 cars repaired but it still hurt cutting up a solid motor
The front end will repair his race car so 3 really but 1 will only get smashed up again.

[Mercdan68]

Shame to break it after all that work, whoops Id swap??Hide quickly!

[vulgalour]

I've read this post several times I can still make no sense out of cutting up a perfectly good car like that. What is point?

[Mercdan68]

Because the fella bortaf got the car from insisted on it?.

[southside]

Well if you bought it then surely you are entitled to do what the hell you like with it? I'd of said "yea sure I'll cut it up" with crossed fingers.

[omega]

May 4, 2015 18:59:42 GMT southside said:

Well if you bought it then surely you are entitled to do what the hell you like with it? I'd of said "yea sure I'll cut it up" with crossed fingers.

but if you give your word you give your word and if yours words worth sh@t then you are sh@T
some things are bigger than money.

[bortaf]

May 4, 2015 19:07:26 GMT omega said:

May 4, 2015 18:59:42 GMT southside said:

Well if you bought it then surely you are entitled to do what the hell you like with it? I'd of said "yea sure I'll cut it up" with crossed fingers.

but if you give your word you give your word and if yours words worth sh@t then you are sh@T
some things are bigger than money.

Exactly this, he's a good customer and TBH a right nice bloke who over the last 3 years has spent Gs restoring quite a few 80's mercs, he just didn't connect with this one.

I've kept the floor section incase somone needs repair panels.

I do prefer to save em but there are times when they have to go, i must admit usually seeing the rust as you strip them makes it easyer, this one was tougher than i thought (emotion wise i meen), must be getting old

Any parts left over from rebuilding the other nova will be put up on here later in the year

[markgenesis]

Always known this to be the case with older, cheap (but interesting) cars, all it takes is one sh!tty owner and the cars history.

Saying that i scrapped a solid MK1 Mini Ex racing shell back in the late 80's because my parents were giving me grief, it had been a race car since the early 60's and i binned it , would be worth a fortune now.