Avante Nova?

[KANEIT]

http://www.simpsonsalvage.com/site/pages/item.php?trans=Manual&t=S&makemodel=Avante&catcode=&trimlevel=&fueltype=Petrol&pics=pics&orderby=MakeModel&date_filter=3&t=S&value=202154 

For sale York area. Is it collectable?

[FlossyThePig]

If you have to ask, no.

[KANEIT]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[tribbles]

Looks hideous!

Could do with some bigger rear wheels (or lowering a bit).

The only thing it could be useful, is if you wanted to learn on a car (I started on something in a similar state).

[Paul Drawmer]

£395. That's nowhere near enough.










They'd have to give me much more than that to take it away.

[Ramthorne]

I suspect that is the value of the log book, the car is free!

[jgmadkit]

They're not valuable but are quite rare so worth the effort if you like that sort of work. Subaru engine transplant maybe

Some pics and information here, yellow one is a particularly nice example.

http://www.classic-kitcars.com/classic-kitcar-deta...

John

[tribbles]

OMG! That yellow one parked next to me at Brooklands (not that year). I commented to the owner about the registration (mine was Q481NTR), but I had no idea what the car was. The yellow one certainly had a VW Beetle engine in at the time though (it was an Air-Cooled day).

[fuoriserie]

I like it........it's the cheapest way to have a Miura inspired kit.

A nice restoration project, with some modern 17in. wheels and a few design tweeks, it would look modern, and with a Subaru or Alfa Boxer engine...

Just go for it...

Edited by fuoriserie on Wednesday 26th December 22:30

[V8 GRF]

fuoriserie said:

I like it........it's the cheapest way to have a Miura inspired kit.

Miura? ..... where do you see the Miura in that?

IIRC it was a rip off from the NOVA.

[LotusNova]

V8 GRF said:

fuoriserie said:

I like it........it's the cheapest way to have a Miura inspired kit.

Miura? ..... where do you see the Miura in that?

IIRC it was a rip off from the NOVA.

It was the 'normal door' version of the Nova (main inspirations for the Nova were Miura & GT 40).

Never thought the Avante looked pretty myself - it lost all the best lines of the Nova.

[Festive Ferg]

V8 GRF said:

fuoriserie said:

I like it........it's the cheapest way to have a Miura inspired kit.

Miura? ..... where do you see the Miura in that?

IIRC it was a rip off from the NOVA.

...the side profile is faily close on the Avante, much closer than the Nova due to the doors. Oakes himself says the Nova was Muira inspired.

[V8 GRF]

Not arguing that the Nova had Miura inspiration, mostly from the black slatted rear window and engine cover and the rear body work swage over the arches but the Avante dispensed with those and altered just about every other line so that it's no were near as cohesive as the Nova was.

(FYI I owned and rebuilt a Nova in the mid '80s, metallic purple it was, wonder where it is now?)

[LotusNova]

V8 GRF said:

Not arguing that the Nova had Miura inspiration, mostly from the black slatted rear window and engine cover and the rear body work swage over the arches but the Avante dispensed with those and altered just about every other line so that it's no were near as cohesive as the Nova was.

(FYI I owned and rebuilt a Nova in the mid '80s, metallic purple it was, wonder where it is now?)

I don't suppose you remember the registration by any chance? I've only ever seen one in metallic purple - it's currently in great shape, on the road, & run by one of our club members.

[V8 GRF]

I'll have a look for some pics, it was an S reg from memory.