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 Don't you just love 'em? Good to see all these Skoda boys joining us...welcome aboard chaps! |
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Merlin - are you one of Skudman's summer Cz cruisers? 'Cos the LR is definately resident here now, and not yet legal for the road, some documentary jiggerypokery reqd!
- Forget the Skodagod stuff, that's just Skudman crawling!I'm just older than most of you hooligans and decided to spend my declining years closer to SkudCentral.
- Kenton - best price I've seen here for RS kit of f/glass is Kc14,600- / £320 but here to hand I can't find the gen on the mfr who offers the front panel with the exact shape hole fabricated out of it, that would be extra. That's exact supplier price, nothing added, and the only realistic way to get one is collect it yourself, I wouldn't trust f/glass to be shipped, except maybe by UPS with insurance (£!) and it wouldn't all fit in my Felicia Estate.!
- Mick Walker's kit came back wrapped in plastic on the roof of my Rapid, no problem en route except that when we got to the Tunnel, there was half an inch to spare under the loading gauge !
- Even if I came to UK with the kit, it would cost more than you doing the same in reverse. I think the words 'holiday' and 'van' spring immediately to mind !
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Sorry SkoMad, forgot the other question, no I can't do Stanford Hall, it clashes with something here that I really need to visit, it involves finding 'stuff' and hoolying around an ex-Russian military airbase at one of the very popular 'Tuning Parties' - 400m sprint- last year some of the top Czech turbo-nutter-curse word J owners invaded for the sprint but were totally upstaged by the guy who had just come back from UK with his new Ultima GTR - Nice !
- For piccies of said place in it's natural state, or infested with an outbreak of Snotty, contact Skudupnorth ! Come on Steve, get a scanner or a digi-cam !
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[/img] not so sure about the kit[/quote] Get me a bucket.  |
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if you notice the wheel trims,they have"drilled discs"built into them
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Sadly, I AM sure about the kit, make that two buckets! There's a lot of this in Czech, cars which as a base vehicle are sought-after in UK, but where the owner has bought one of everything in the shop, except a can of paint, and bolted/screwed/stuck it on. The thing to bear in mind is, before their Velvet Revolution and the end of communism in '89, western accessories were hard to get and the domestic products were very limited and expensive. Most cars looked very standard, and so anything that could be done d.i.y. to make it look different was a change.
- The results often looked horrendous to us, and the picture shows that old habits die hard. A Czech friend was amused at the phrase 'fashion accident' when referring to a similar car seen in a street, nowadays there's no limit to styling accessories of previous west European or Japanese quality available here, but sadly very little of it for Retro cars.
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I agree, the trims are curse word, but remember, that car comes from a country where that was the only car to afford for about 40 years, and the Estelle and rapid/garde models where prettymuch the only other cars to buy unless you could find a less well engineered other Eastern european car like a Lada  , a Zastava, or a Trabant. (just kidding about the Lada BTW) and luxuries like alloys were reserved for motorsport cars. The exhaust looks to be a factory rally style one. And they do work. they are the choice of exhaust style to fit now if you want to maximise performance. The spoiler may be a factory replica from the rally cars, but the skirts look like a set of Ellri ones intended for the Estelle/Rapid cars. The Vinyl and louvres probably were factory, definatley the vinyl anyway. |
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Mar 24, 2004 11:29:04 GMT
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Re-the 130RS pictures, sorry guys, need to delay a day or so, the showroom where the car is displayed is part of the motorsport advertising company owned by the same man as the car, and today it was full of Subaru Imprezza WRC-2004 being stickered-up for the Rallye Sumava at the weekend. The Scoobie is incidentally the new drive for ex-Skoda pilot Roman Kresta, his Hyundai drive being either ended or uncertain.
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Mar 24, 2004 14:50:39 GMT
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Skofast,.. if you have a link you want to link,.. just put in the URL with http:// in front of it and it'll become a link,.. No need to add tags,.. The mysteries of the board will become clear in time  hehe |
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Mar 24, 2004 14:51:11 GMT
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Ooops did I delete your message by accident or did you do it???
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Mar 24, 2004 14:53:54 GMT
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I've had a couple of reply mails for this, and when I got here nothing has changed.
Doh, Gremlins, aaaaagh.
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Mar 24, 2004 14:55:03 GMT
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no,it was me - now you can blame me for everything ! Like the cars, it all went to pot when they replaced contact points with those fancy transistor things !
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Mar 24, 2004 14:58:08 GMT
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for 130RS pics please visit www.vidivici.cz/airdesign_tuning there's a drop-down way over on the right which includes the RS and some other weird Skodas with the engine at the wrong end |
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Mar 24, 2004 15:06:51 GMT
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Hi all Yep its me! Like the use of my pictures! lol ere the Yellow S110R reg YLU  ? just to let you all know that Keith Jones scrapped that some time ago! sorry to be the bearer of bad new and all! Ere John! Crawler indeed! lol you are God to us lot of unwise mortals! Rapid as pictured in background above somewhere is going for a Dyno run on saturday with newly rebuilt engine! hopefully with a fully functional fuel pump by then as well! last night i attempted my 0 to 60's with help from other half only to get fuel starvation at 4500 not ideal as i was intending to take her to 5500 per change! curse word! could only manage 9seconds! Want to go and cry now! |
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Mar 24, 2004 15:27:02 GMT
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ere the Yellow S110R reg YLU ? just to let you all know that Keith Jones scrapped that some time ago! That's a shame...I'm quite surprised at that though, it was really solid when it was in my care. Did it deteriorate that much? Or should we get 'the boys' to visit this Keith geezer? ;D Any more details on the cars life after its time in the Rmad stable? I'm going to cry now too. |
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Mar 24, 2004 15:33:19 GMT
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Seems to be the mad surgeons prefered method of handling Skodas these days, and I've many horror stories from Paul about how many Rapids and Coupes he's stripped, chopped up and generally scrapped, some of them not even his, just storing them for others.
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Mar 24, 2004 15:46:06 GMT
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On the subject of S110Rs, who owns this beauty?  Is it a UK car? |
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, a Zastava, or a Trabant. (just kidding about the Lada BTW) and luxuries like alloys were reserved for motorsport cars.
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? just to let you all know that Keith Jones scrapped that some time ago!