Will It RUN AND DRIVE? 1988 Vauxhall Nova UNTOUCHED for 28 YEARS! Can I bring It BACK TO LIFE?!
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- In this bumper resurrection I get stuck in to this 90's boy racer stable staple, no maccies trays under the rear wheels but can I put a song back into it's heart! Plus bonus 28 year old sealed food find!
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@@mbk649 I'm still alive 3 days on 👌🏼
@@tastyclassicsyou better be sharing. ;)
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HAHA, THIS!! I was expecting a cautious safety-nibble but no! He just lobbed it in complete! 😂😂 I was both shocked and impressed in equal measure.
Ancient potato chips and candy, can't find quality entertainment anywhere else😂😂
Tampa Florida here...watching to distract myself..wife and I lost our home staying with daughter and son-in-law and 8yo grandson...nice work as always sir.
God bless, sorry you've been affected so badly. I know it'll be the personal items that can never be replaced. At least you are alive and safe. Again God bless.
Good luck over there mate.
I hope you’re family are ok and keeping safe. Nice to see British comedy and humour being enjoyed overseas.
I feel for you all. Thankful you’re safe. 🙏
So sorry to hear about your home. Hope its not too long before its restored or replaced.
I love our nova. They are such fun little cars. Vauxhalls of this era are my absolute favourite.
Ben, I’m watching in S Florida, where we dodged another bullet this week. My first hurricane here was Andrew in 1992, but luckily I wasn’t directly impacted. As I’ve mentioned to you before, UK weather can suck sometimes, but it’s very rarely life threatening. Keep up the good work. An expat from Southend-on-sea.
And or houses are build from real bricks and mortels and not from wood like in the usa
UK weather sucks 'most' of the time, not just some of the time. At least you have glorious 'real' summers. Keep safe mate!
Dougie from once driven forever smitten would be all over this, love old vauxhalls need to get a cav and a calibra going
I've got a Calibra that iv owned since 2017
Need to sell it now ,due to lack of funds .
I just hate advertising cars these days due to so many wasters .
No flies on Dicky! Busted immediately 😂
I had a Red Nova SR 1.4 H Reg.
It smoked a bit so i stripped the engine down and put new shells, piston rings, valve stem seals and i used a glaze buster for the 1st time on the bores.
Ran like a dream after......happy days
Cool name
Now you’re talking my kind of language, love these cars 😊
One of the best channels on UA-cam, keep up the great work!
Best UA-cam car channel by far 👍
Haircut and a nova in 1 vid, my weekend is sorted 👌🏻
Sham pain super Nova.
Or larger and crisps Merit.
Belter👍. The enthusiasm and graft you put out on these cars is brilliant it really is,thank you
I commented a while ago hoping u would find a Nova ....and shouted hell yeah when I saw ur vid...not gonna lie when u mentioned lowering it and max power n alloys I got a chub on.....then cryed when u looked under it ....such a shame ...what a emotional roller coaster.
Brilliant video brother 👍😀👍
To see this car run so sweetly after 28 years was pretty amazing.
What was even more impressive for me though, was your 90’s lunch time snack , eating one of those crisps, then a sweet to follow was very brave 😂..
Great content as always❤.
That is so cool to see! The econo Chevy Nova we had in the States was totally different. It was more of a square sedan thing. It looked just like a Pontiac that was out at the time. Over here, we could not believe the Nova went from a cheap muscle car (placed under the Chevelle) to an ecoco box!
Best UA-cam channel by far I love seeing these old cars brought back to life
And Bully's special prize a Vaxhall Nova.More useful than winning a speed boat😂
My mate had a 1.3 SR then a White GTE. 1.0 novas were flying machines 100 mph. Looking forward to this!
happy for you. work on gravel for years. then i got married. she talked me into moving into town. 40 years later i'm talking to a box on friday night. waiting for company. i've sunk.
Omg the crisps lol 😂
I remember seeing those Nova's (Opel Corsa's) all over Germany in the mid 80's when I was stationed at Ramstein Air Base!!! Cool little car! The rust monster had 28 years to munch on that poor car.
That was my biggest laugh by far with the crisps love it 😂😂
Ahhh the nova, memories of just finishing school and lads getting their first car
That takes me back! B576VCR Was my first nova, white with red interior, spent more on sills and back panel repairs than I bought it for but to me it was the world! 😂
I literally listened to the Nova song last week. A song that will forever live Rent free in my head
Thanks Ben for another great video. I myself had a Nova a later facelifted model the SRI, very rare at the time and even more so now. It was a 1992 model and it is still on the road somewhere!
My sister's first car. She was traumatised to tears when she had to get rid because of rot. I buzz off your hard work, cheers 👍👍
12:15 Ashens would be proud
Indeed , Ashens would try it too 😂
another great video from the tasty classic archives, unfortunately you can’t save them all, but you can give it a good go another great old vauxhall going to the vauxhalls in the sky
Who doesn't love the Vauxhall Nova? Nearly had one as a first car, and I ended up with a Vauxhall Chevette!
My first car was a Vauxhall Chevette - in peagreen.....I mean Lincoln green :) The pea green love machine they called it in sixth form!
@@vondoomgaming1224 I had one in NHS blue! 🤣
@@TheFlixFiles You have to appreciate the single mid mounted speaker and fold the rear seats down and you had a double bed, for.....fun! 😁
My first car was a Chevette too 😊
I drove a Shove-It once. I couldn't believe that a 1.3 could be pretty much out of puff at 60mph. It honestly felt like a step up when I jumped into a Hillman Avenger which was quite a lot older. But we all have soft spots for different cars of our youth and I like to see people driving ordinary cars of the time. Anyone with a big enough cheque book car drive an expensive Triumph Stag convertible, but the cars I really appreciate are the Chevettes, Avengers, Sunbeams and the likes.
Love the temp fuel, like a drip in a patient! I worked in the car business in 1989/1990, attached to a Vauxhall garage, the Nova was a little beauty, the GSE was up there with XR2's, and i drove the new 1.5TDI Nova which was like a rocket!!! Such a good car!
Loved that drive around at the end Ben, we see a lot of fettling on your videos so it's great to see some external shots with these beauties on the move, great camera work, the engine sounded so sweet. I'm sure seeing it on the move, living and breathing hydrocarbons flying, rust falling, chassis dissipating, must have given the owners' son a smile. 😍 Wow almost a third of century later and Ben brings the old girl back to life! Oh well, I was looking forward to that road trip down to the south of France.
Glad your back fixing cars ben👍❤️
Another great video reminded me of my nova merit 1.2 saloon F62 GNB bought new from the long gone motorama Rochdale paid £6600 .The clock and head rests were one of the extra features available for the merit. Great memories.
I was looking forward to your next video all week and watched this from beginning to end, couldn't tear myself away! You're one of the best channels on UA-cam, content/concept is great and you are a such a good presenter - funny and likeable (pity Top Gear is over, you'd have made a great presenter of that). Lots of memories of Novas and this brought took me back to my teens.
Right from the very start I know this is gonna be a great video. I used to sing those lyrics in my Vauxhall Astra 1.8 SRi 😆✊🏻 class ☺️👌🏻
As Mike from the Streets once said “It was sposed to be so eeeeeasy” 😆😆😆
😂😂 absolute choons
I had F448 ROU 1.3SR Nova, wish I had somewhere I could have stored it back then. Nice to see a 3 door Nova has survived 👌🏼
Keep up the good work man! Loving the videos and the Patreon👍🏻
Thanks Lee!
What a Beauty had a couple Novas back in day so much fun and memory's
We had an '87 Nova 1.2 saloon with huge boot in early '90's when boys were very young and it did us well for many years.A great lttle car!
Aaaaahhhh, my first car was a Nova. Back in the day it was either Nova or Fiesta as first cars. 6x9’s on the parcel shelf…bangin’
You are up there with the best on UA-cam Ben well done keep being you
Aww, what a shame, looked a lovely little car too. Back in the 90's my aunt had a MKII Nova. When she went abroad to work she left it in her garage and it was my job to periodically drive in in and out. This was a few years before I [properly] learnt to drive, so she was brave! She did promise me that when she got home I could have it. In the end she sold it to someone else and I was properly gutted. She then promised me she'd buy me another car. It took her until 2009 to keep that promise! It worked out for me in the end as, without her buying it, I wouldn't have my gorgeous MKIV Polo, a car you'd have to pry from my cold, dead hands! I'd have loved to have shown you it at Rustival, maybe next year?
Cheers for that Ben. Tether is my new favourite song. Corker! 🏴
Wow an old Vauxhall Nova. They were great little cars the young lads used to stick all kinds things on them to make them look sporty.
Another great video Ben.
Great work bringing another one back to life . Shame you couldn't save it , it's not the worst I have seen though
eating the crisp was a defining moment
Such a nice little Corsa that one. I remember my friend's dad had one of those in brown in immaculate condition. I remember it had a 4-speed manual transmission, and it was revving like mad. Sadly, it was about 10 years ago, and those cars back then weren't sought after at all; I remember it got sold for scrap. It's a shame that the previous owner left it to rot for over 20 years; I could've brought so much joy to someone during all those years.
Takes me back to my first car, 1986 1.2 petrol nova in red but it was a saloon that you didn't see often
The reason those crisps didn't taste right is because you have to go through the ritual of "Let's get this out onto a tray; Nice!", then everything tastes fine, somehow... :P
Steve the legend
Nova SRs were EVERYWHERE back in the MAX Power days, good little cars. The stock car boys still use them for the 1300cc classes
McCoy's should have gone on ebay unopened, worth more than the car! 😂
My dad had a white Nova Saloon. Loved that car as a child and was sad when it got scrapped. Like the new trim by the way :D
2litre red top engine and caviler slab alloys takes me back and thanks for the video you are a legend
Ben, I used to panic about you breathing in all the mould inside these old motors, but, well, the McCoys have taken that anxiety to a whole new level 🙈
Is there anything that screams “grandpa’s pride and joy” than wurthers originals, polo mints, fox’s glacier’s and a tub of atrixo in the glovebox 🫶🏻
My Grandma had a brown 1988 Opel Corsa Coupe which was a 3 door Nova like this but with a wee extra bum bit for some reason 🤷🏻♀️ (called the Opel Corsa in Ireland rather than the Nova, just like the Astra was called the Kadett).
Crikey, your latest video takes me back. I passed my driving test in a 1.2 Vauxhall NOVA MERIT back in the day 1991. I think you were lucky if there was power steering, and there were definitely no electric windows. The interior is fantastic for its year of manufacture. The old classic cars were great no bings and bongs like the modern cars. But saying that there's no safety evern no air bag. Great memories for me though. My car that I have know evern stops it self.
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Great car, so easy to steal
Like they showed on top gear 😊
Also Ben no more food out of the car!!
Yeah thankfully the guys with the know-how to do that are in the same age group as Clarkson & co and has long since aged out of that 'business' 🤭 I've got a somewhat related GM car of the 80s and my best anti-theft devices are its manual gearbox and shoddy carburetor
This takes me back. Thirty years ago I was given an mot failed Nova which I fixed. Funny little thing, a saloon with an enormous boot.
Ben, only just started to watch this episode. I had a White Nova SR on an E plate, brand new in 1987 and 1297CC. In 1988 they did fuel injection on the SR but I bought a Black Nova GTE ex Demonstrator (1989) with Irmscher Body Kit. I had the GTE for 11 years; loved it.
I never had a GTE but my mate did and I remember it being absolutely superb!
Your choice of tunes is awesome man. The song when you are displaying the Patreon members names is mint.
Yes yes yes yes, my first car a grey SR nova. Omg so many memories, thank you.
Over here those were sold as Opel Corsa.
It was big news when the 1.2 got the new OHC engine. Previously, only the 1.0 and 1.3 got that. The 1.2 retained the old side cam, pushrod engine.
Sad to see how rotten they get, when laid up. I had several Opels, over the years and even a Vauxhall (a Chevette) that had Opel branding on lots and lots of parts.
I once lost a trolly jack through the missing spare wheel well, on an Ascona. Those were Cavaliers, in the UK, with a funny snout grafted on where the Opel grille belongs.
Frilly metal was a bit of a recurring theme, for GM in the 1970s and 1980s, even though we didn’t use salt on our roads at that time. I’m astonished any of them survive, over there.
Absolute legend going full send on the Real McCoy's Crisp. 😂 That had me rolling. And to top it off a sweet from the late 90s 😂
Ben I love ya thanks for doing a vauxhall nova I had 4 of them in the past
One of your best videos! You need to find treats in all of your future buys.
Another entertaining watch, thanks. There must be parts in there that someone wants. Nothing should be hurled in the scrapper without being Mad Maxxed!
Original Nova had one piece grill + bumper, facelifted in 87 and they got another facelift in 1990.
Had a red 1.3 SR as my second car when I was 18, it was D343WMY was an absolute beauty. Those were good times.
I haven't laughed so much in a long time. I can't believe you chomped that crisp 😮.
Hair looks so much better
I am fiddling "Swinging on at Gate" on my Strad.
Hello from one hatched in Winnipeg, in 1952. Now living on the rocky coast of Maine, US October 10, 2024
Tarmax looks good enough to land a P-3
Yes! Now we’re talking. Love it. Could be better than the TT
Please do the max power build on the nova if you are keeping it ❤
No rust at the fuelfillercap, that's a big win :)
Hi Ben, I owned a Nova SR and a Nova Club back in the 80's great cars, fond memories, my mate had a Nova GTI which I was always well jealous of!
Great video It be really nice to see it restored 😊😊😊😊
You are a legend for trying to eat one of those crisps 😝 I had a nova and want it back now 😢
I will hive you Merit for the song lyrics at the beginning, i cant believe they are 22 years old time flies 👍.
Learnt to drive in a 1.2i k reg really rated that car .
daamn the streets im miss those mad lads!! have a great weekend =)
Omg only a bloody vauxhall nova!!! My first car was a stunning 1987 vauxhall nova club the dark grey to light grey and yellow diagonally striped seats and door card still have a place in my heart till this day. Not to mention the white star wheel trims.. Which did get replaced with sr alloys. Well I was 17 after all ooh and the obligatory janspeed exhaust. Then after that back box went I slipped on a Ashley big bore back box. You coulda heard me coming from your house lol
Just stumbled on your channel, I’m now starting to watch from the beginning, keep up the great work
Great video Ben! I had a black Nova 1.3SR (F326 KKN). Owned it for 14 years, before it disintegrated 😂
New subscriber and instagram follower here. I've been catching up with the back catalogue of videos as well as the newer ones. I do like your presentation style and you also remind me of me but 30+ years ago. I used to buy and sell old cars as a hobby and to bring a few pennies in. It was the 80s so I'm talking Cortinas, Capris, Granadas, Marinas, Avengers etc. Good times! Its nice to sit back in a comfy armchair now though and watch someone else getting cold, wet and dirty!
That is some lovely tarmac 🤌
Good lord my first car was an identical Nova loved that car and still miss it 😂
Love a nova, had 3 back in the day. Great content Ben, absolute menace with those crisps 🤣
Some bloke called Kev left himself logged in on UA-cam in the room I’m stopping in for a wedding so enjoy a view from him pal. I’ve liked and subscribed him as well
Not gonna skip the ads either pal. Much love pal
Cheers mate hahaha
@@tastyclassics no probs pal was gonna comment as him but it wants me to log in again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@tastyclassics Jimmy has checked his room to see if his UA-cam is logged in just in case we can bag you another sub x much love pal keep doing what you do
omg sticker book, excellent christmas present
Reminds me of being a teen with my friends and "trevin" round town! we thought we were cool and we were!
Love this channel never want this to end
Learnt to drive in one of these. Looking forward to watching.
My first car was a Nova (D179WVK) and it was mostly filler, fibre glass and bodged in metal before I bought it. By the time it was dragged away by some nice scrap dealers I'd replaced the doors, front wings, boot lid and most of the floors. I never worried about driving the thing anywhere in the country, although always kept a fuel pump in the glovebox as those things just died.
Do love a nova memory lane 👌🏻
Ben eating that crisp was impressive. What’s going to happen to you? Probably death by McCoy toxic syndrome 😂
You probebly grow a red beard
I nearly bought one, a 1.4SR which I was offered at 'mates rates'. But I had just got engaged and She persuaded me to get the 2.2 CDI Carlton at the local garage in stead. Love the older Vauxhall's. Last one being a 3.0 Senator 24 valve.
Last little spin ' a nice play on the vauxhall nova Spin' like it
I think that’s just become your winter challenge.
Great car choice Ben 😎👌🏻 Looking forward to seeing this at the end ♥️🍺 *edit*... not quite the ending I was hoping for but good on you for trying to save it 🙌🏻 I can see the McCoy's crisps sponsership coming soon too 😉😅
Impressed you found that AFR screw. On Pierburgs, as well as the outer rubber pipes leaking air, they are very sensitive to diaphragms and other seals surrounding mechanisms like choke pull-down flaps, etc. Very complicated - that's why on the VWs of that era, people mainly chose to replace them with Webers which are simpler in design. There's nothing better than a working Pierburg though. Magic worked, once again... 🙂
Once you've done 100 miles in it and blasted out the last remaining crap, you'll prob have to turn it back down again for HC emissions. Someone may have already fiddled with it for that reason, previously.