The community workbench
Find the answer before you turn the wrench.
Thirty years of Sterling and Nova knowledge was scattered across forums that go offline and photo hosts that delete albums. We gathered all of it into one place: free, searchable, and yours.
The registry
Is your car in here?
Every car we have a record of, with its serial number, where it was last known to be, and everything else in the archive that mentions it. Compiled from the historical registry and from thirty years of owners talking about their cars.
No formula turns one of these numbers into a build date. Anyone who says otherwise is guessing. This checks your number against every car we have a record of.
From the gallery
Fourteen thousand photographs
Garage guides
Use it in the shop
Guides built out of the preserved manuals and the questions owners have actually asked one another over thirty years. They are references assembled from source material, not factory manuals, and each one says where every part of it came from.
This is an archive, not a forum
Got a question? Ask here.
Nothing on this site can be replied to. It preserves what was already written, and every entry links back to where it was written so you can pick up the thread with the people who are still there. If you want to ask something, or follow a build as it happens, these are the places that are alive today.
Give it back
This archive is as good as what people send it
Photographs, a manual nobody has scanned, a magazine clipping, a correction, or the name of someone who was there. If you have something, we would rather it were here than lost with the next forum that closes.