Good onya - get it set to stop hard and handle pleasantly, then you can play with the go stuff.
Yes, it's my age (rotten sod
you ) and you don't want a trailer queen of a car. It's got to be driveable, and to be enjoyable to drive.
Agreed, Novas are ****e even the 1.6 GTE thing is a rabbit hutch of a car with useless brakes and sod all go above 50 mph. I'd be surprised to find any on the roads now.
Maybe the trick is to ensure that the go always is slightly better than the show. That way you're never gonna have to apologise for the car.
Five years back I was moving house and the one I was selling was dealt with by a your recruit to a local estate agent. He drove a 106 with everything possible to have and it looked lovely. Turned out that it was a 1.1 litre basic with 1.1 litre performance and a bodykit.
Without being churlish, the house was on the market (and sold for) £424,000. Fair play, he sold it for us, but, why the all-show-no-go?