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Apr 24, 2005 17:15:31 GMT
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here she is. my pride and joy! 136 motor with an ashleys exhaust system. fitting a webber and a K&N shortly too, which should give it even better performance! ;D its lowered, quite a bit i think, i didn't lower it, the previous owner did....it was just a cutting coils out job, not a proper professional set up... its had the bumpers removed ( ;D ) and clear front and side indicators. and resprayed in a very bright red. 13" minilitte rims, wrapped in 185/75 tyres. Mine and a mate's Rapids chillin'   Some general pics,         |
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That brings back some very good memories...what a great car! Might I make a couple of suggestion? It needs more:  ;D  ...and if it were mine, I'd be looking for a non-spotlight grille and a set of lower profile tyres. |
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Apr 25, 2005 13:19:31 GMT
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[quote author=rmad ...and if it were mine, I'd be looking for a non-spotlight grille and a set of lower profile tyres. [/quote]
and a set of bumpers eh Rob!!!
does look good though mate, once you get those rust spots sorted you'll have a great car there, how many kids your age have something as cool as that?
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2006 Skoda Roomster 1.4 16v (Daily)
1990 Autozam Revue 1.5 Auto Canvas Top (Project)
1993 VW Transporter LWB 2.4D (Camper Project)
1994 Skoda Favorit Foreman II Pick Up (Project)
1979 Skoda Estelle 120LS. (Project)
1982 Kip Kompakt 300 Caravan (Project)
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Apr 25, 2005 16:33:26 GMT
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and a set of bumpers eh Rob!!! I second the comment about the bumpers. Without the visual longitudinal emphasis provided by the bumpers, the car looks taller and narrower that it would where bumpers fitted. And keep them black - body colour won't work as described above! Otherwise though, it's looking good!  |
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Last Edit: Apr 25, 2005 16:33:56 GMT by Paul H
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Apr 25, 2005 22:19:09 GMT
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Nice Rapid! One thing I wished I'd done with my Rapid was (apart from lower it...) give it massive negative camber. OK it'd be a curse word to steer (but not as bad as most as it's rear engined) but it'd look well cool.
Looking at the engine bay takes me back too! That engine is one of the easiest I've ever worked on... well the whole car was actually! Everything just unbolts.
And I miss the parts prices! Never spent over a tenner at the main dealers, although they were phasing out parts for the rear engined Skods back then (we're talking ten years ago now...). How's the parts situation with the dealers nowadays?
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Apr 25, 2005 22:49:00 GMT
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They look mighty fine when they're low!  I quite like the bumperless look by the way. |
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Apr 26, 2005 16:30:47 GMT
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thanks for all the comments ;D bumpers are definately not going on! but i might put them on just to show everyone how much better it looks without....  rmad, in the ideal world, the rims would be bigger, and more 5 spoke looking, with lower profile tyres, but this is the real world, and thats out of the question right now....  d'you all like the rear seat covers? future mods: -AA/RR badge -possibily, might re-fit the standard grille...  thanks again! |
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Apr 26, 2005 22:30:48 GMT
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They look mighty fine when they're low! I quite like the bumperless look by the way. Did you own the Estelle on hydraulics that was sat on a beer bottle at Doncaster custom show a few years back?? |
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Current Fleet
2006 Skoda Roomster 1.4 16v (Daily)
1990 Autozam Revue 1.5 Auto Canvas Top (Project)
1993 VW Transporter LWB 2.4D (Camper Project)
1994 Skoda Favorit Foreman II Pick Up (Project)
1979 Skoda Estelle 120LS. (Project)
1982 Kip Kompakt 300 Caravan (Project)
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Did you own the Estelle on hydraulics that was sat on a beer bottle at Doncaster custom show a few years back?? No, that was scrapingscrap (member of this forum, but currently on a round the world jaunt). The juice from that car (the Estelle) ended up in this grey Rapid. Scrapingscrap bought the Rapid from me - finished the Twin Cam swap that I had started and fitted the hydraulics.  ^ this was the saloon ^ |
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Are they Billabug style door cars??  |
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Apr 27, 2005 13:30:31 GMT
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Are they Billabug style door cars??  If the violent rocking from the hydraulics didn't make the passengers chunder, the interior usually did. |
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Last Edit: Apr 27, 2005 13:31:15 GMT by rmad
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Apr 27, 2005 19:33:32 GMT
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how many kids your age have something as cool as that? not many il wager. the unfortunate thing is most of snorms peers wont look at it that way. but what do they know. i also would go with the bumpers back on,lowered as far as poss and running steels with moon discs ;D sorry mate, just windin' you up ;D ;D ;D |
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Apr 27, 2005 19:36:33 GMT
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bloody well hope so, i mean bumpers are bad, but moon disks?!  to all my peers its a crappy skoda, but like you say, what do they know. that skoda estelle is very cool- has it survived? |
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Apr 27, 2005 19:50:00 GMT
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il tell you what they know.....they know nothing, but they don't even know that they know nothing.
take the sh*t you get for the skud and shrug it off.
most likely p*ss takers probably wont have a car anyway.
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Apr 27, 2005 20:17:28 GMT
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Yeah I used to get stick about my Rapid (and that was when Skoda jokes were considered "funny"). I used to wave to them when they were standing in the bus queue in the puring rain... "can I have a lift?" "errr, no." |
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Apr 27, 2005 20:27:43 GMT
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did you have a rapid as your first car- just how cool! only one of my 'contemparies' has a car, and it's an MG B GT that he is restoring with his dad and he refuses to modify it!  |
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Apr 27, 2005 20:28:55 GMT
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Snorm, you must be the coolest kid in school with that  <not that anybody else would understand as they aspire to their BSM blue 1.2 Corsa with free insurance > But, IMHO... have no bumpers and slam it or re-fit the bumpers and leave it at that height... otherwise it looks too top heavy. |
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Apr 27, 2005 20:59:05 GMT
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Apr 27, 2005 21:35:27 GMT
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My dads starting to get into the slammed with superwide wheels euro look. He still thinks some of the golfs are stupidly low though. ;D
Adam
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1997 TVR Chimaera
2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Apr 27, 2005 21:37:09 GMT
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prehaps he could give my dad some advice? they other problem is, Hartlepool Borough Council have some sort of fetish for STUPIDLY high speed bumps in in-apropiate areas...  |
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