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Nova Demographic Map Stoneleigh_Show_Pics
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Nova Demographic Map Stoneleigh_Show_Pics
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This gallery will be a pictorial history of my attempts to resurrect a VW Nova Kitcar that had been started in the 1980's and then abandoned in a Scottish garden.
The story begins when I successfully win the car on eBay. I collect a hired car trailer after work on Friday and set out with wife and dog to collect the Nova from just outside Glasgow. At Newcastle we stop for the night in a Travelodge ( the only room I could book was a smokers room which was like sleeping in an old ashtray) and next day we restart the journey. Midday finds the seller (Jim) and me trying to extricate the Nova, which has sunk into four pits made by the flat tyres, about 20 yards from the back garden to the road where the trailer is parked.
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20 years in a Scottish garden. The Nova looks a bit forlorn and down at heel with weeds growing through the floorpan, flat tyres and seized brakes. |
A service stop on the way back from Glasgow. Part way through the 700 mile round trip to Scotland to collect the Nova I stop for coffee and Red Bull top up. |
Back home the Nova gets inspected.... Wife and son give me a technical appraisal of my newly acquired Nova. |
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A bare cockpit and the side windows are missing! |
Floor - what floor! Tin Worm has had 20 years to digest the floor pans. |
 A 'Flintstones' floor. Not much metal left in here. My driveway clearly visible. |
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The pedal box looks rusted solid. It might take more than WD40!! |
On the tunnel the gear lever has been moved and shortened. |
 With the bonnet removed it is clear to see the grey oxidisation of the fibreglass. |
 Engine corrosion. Tin Worm has been at work here too. |
 Plants are growing in the exhaust! |
 A top view of the rusty engine. Is that a bird's nest in the Carb?? |
 A sorry state. A solid mass of steel and alloy corrosion. |
 The pile of rusty 'chuck-its'. Dismantling begins and the rusty pile begins to grow. |
 At least the central spine looks solid. |
 With the body off the front end looks mostly intact. |
 Rear looks bad! |
 Front torsion bar has surface rust and one upright is holed at the bottom. |
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 A small pile of salvageable parts. |
 Front end is nearly detached. |
 Just a few more bolts and clouts with the hammer. |
 A bare front end. |
 The left rear frame fork has more holes than a colander. |
