2024 Rendezvous

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Isn't or possibly wasn't there a race team in single seaters called Nova? I know we have discussed the tyre situation recently, but the Nova name just rings a bell from the past.

As just mentioned there was the Nova operation in Japan and David Sears ran the Supernova team in European F3000?

[midgetman]

It's nothing to do with either of them. Apparently the nickname came from the reversed name on the mould. It would appear that Nova is an official heir to Avon with company backing and big plans for the future.

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[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by midgetman

It's nothing to do with either of them. Apparently the nickname came from the reversed name on the mould. It would appear that Nova is an official heir to Avon with company backing and big plans for the future.

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Max, I appreciated that fact, and we discussed this when the original announcement was made. My question was purely tangential to it and I wasn't trying to tie the two together; just recalled the name from years ago.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Isn't or possibly wasn't there a race team in single seaters called Nova? I know we have discussed the tyre situation recently, but the Nova name just rings a bell from the past.

There were Nova kit cars back in the seventies. Used a pretty standard format of VW donor car, but they were lets say more exotic than your average kit car. Not hugely successful but some had Porsche power from a 914. The centre section opened on struts for access. Just hundreds or so made so not mainstream.

In fact here is a youtube clip https://youtu.be/UnvAS9E1M2k


A bit of info:
https://www.sterlingkitcars.com/hist...module_nv.html

And some pics (at a Nova club day ?)

[Peter Mallett]

Then there's the Vauxhall Nova. https://www.carandclassic.com/list/42/nova/

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Isn't or possibly wasn't there a race team in single seaters called Nova? I know we have discussed the tyre situation recently, but the Nova name just rings a bell from the past.

There were Nova kit cars back in the seventies. Used a pretty standard format of VW donor car, but they were lets say more exotic than your average kit car. Not hugely successful but some had Porsche power from a 914. The centre section opened on struts for access. Just hundreds or so made so not mainstream.

In fact here is a youtube clip https://youtu.be/UnvAS9E1M2k


A bit of info:
https://www.sterlingkitcars.com/hist...module_nv.html

And some pics

Edit: couldnt get the pics to show, but there is a gallery of them here:
http://www.classic-kitcars.com/16/16picgallery.htm

[midgetman]

My dad nearly bought the rights to that back in the day. So glad he didn't, I'd still be living in a cardboard box and lickin' t' road clean wi' ma tongue.

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[Mike Harte]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think that James may have provided the answer with his posting about Supernova.

[drbob]

Any news on delta and the FJ’s at Enna,Sicily.

[Peter Mallett]

Was wondering myself. Hope all is ok.

[John Elwin]

Those snakes....

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Those snakes....

That's not a nice way to describe the Sicilians, Richard.

[Gerard C]

John or Dave, not Richard actually…

[delta]

Full story tomorrow . Really enjoyed the weekend .?

[Peter Mallett]

Excellent.

[Gerard C]

Amarino? Etna wine?

[delta]

So I did not really want to go to this meeting. Dr Bob had to get back to Australia early so that meant I only had one car to look after. There was a chance of a Co drive in MGB but again owner opted out of the long journey. We had cars at Cadwell and Mallory so I could of been put to good use elsewhere.
I was wrong, Loved every minuet. Got to test a coup[le of cars Friday morning so that's another track to my long list. The people there were just so nice and friendly and nothing was too much trouble. My car ran OK apart from oil still coming out the rear scroll, race number 704 completed for Duncan.
I did spend Friday welding up a Lotus 22 that had wishbone break and pulled leg out of chassis. All this was to no avail as the diff broke on the car. Very disappointed. One of my favorite things i love to do is go and have a coffee and quassant in local café near the the tracks we go to abroad. Its great fun absorbing all the atmosphere from marshalls and officials that are involved with the track. Dinner in the evening at various restaurants was fantastic. There were only three grids from the UK. HGPCA, Flavian and Marcel with endurance race and our Formula Juniors. All grids well supported
Talking to all the drivers and mechanics it was brakes that were the most common issue. The track is very fast with four chicanes. Weather was lovely apart from thunder storm just before our second race on Sunday. Good old Easy Jet got me there and back with ease . Anyway quick turn around and I am off to Nurburgring tomorrow for another Delta adventure. Pictures below. Happy days guys.+

[Peter Mallett]

Well done Iain, thank you for sharing your expereince. I knew the HGPCA were going but forgot about the others.

[Tel 911S]

Saw a news item today about a " Waymo " , driverless car in America .
Following a Gardiners ? pickup which had trees in the back . It kept breaking and swerving into cycle lanes and was all over the road . Am guessing it saw the trees waving and was taking evasive action .

And they want to bring in driverless cars here ???????

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

And they want to bring in driverless cars here ???????

Send 'em here, Tel, please. Anything is better than a french driver!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Send 'em here, Tel, please. Anything is better than a french driver!

Now, now Gerard! The French drivers are not that bad - ever been to Britain?

[Gerard C]

'f course I went and more than once, John. I feel like a "poisson dans l'eau" over there, I can keep my bad habit to overtake from the right side and drive like nuts on the left side of the road. Only issues is when I tow a race car on a B road. Our trailers are really large ones!

[Gerard C]

Never had an issue when paying at Dartford toll either, change in given in a plastic bag. Cant say the same thing in Calais area…

[Gerard C]

By the way, from Iain's pics I do see a kwoasson but what is the mess in the tea cup, I wonder… Etna caviar or used racing castor oil? The guy has guts to swallow this!

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Send 'em here, Tel, please. Anything is better than a french driver!

I Have driven through France many hundreds of times , and normally no problems with the drivers .
The main exception was the Peripherique , where the old game was to count the number of undamaged cars , and it was normally only a small amount .

But always remember what George Carlin said . "The average driver is not very good , Which means half of them are worse that that "