Dam Ebay

Unless you go first, with cash ;)

From Butt and Co by special order, like it says in the catalogue. They are still popular in CZ as everyday runners. When it cost you 3 years wages, and you had to wait 10 years for it, you=20 tended to keep it. So they are still very supported by pattern manufacturers. Butts will=20 order it from their supplier and ship it in with their order. Just takes=20 a little while.

Or take the John "god" Shelly route again, get the panel cheaper, but=20 wait until he is next back in the country for a skoda event. And you can=20 always have a laugh at his choice of intercontinental balistic wreckage.=20 One year, felica SDi estates, another year Subaru Legacy estate with 4=20 knackered joints and whining diff, another year Volvo diesel estate, and=20 last year, a Barkas 1200cc 4 speed van, all were driven back from CZ.=20 The van was because it was for a buyer, and cheaper to drive over,=20 rather than hire a trailer and use the extra fuel, and pay for a hotel=20 room because of the extra slow travelling. Still travelled extra and=20 slow, but there was the back of a van to sleep in.

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Nah, club ettiquette. He has made the effort, he should go for it if he wants. he was looking for one, but might want a longer MOT as that is what it was advertised as having. If he says yes it is nice, but isn't running right, so I don't want it, I'll probably jump at it. I've had a lumpy Skoda running sweet in about

The last 2 immaculate rapids to be sold went for =A36000+ each. They were silly low (less than 2k) mileage each, and been stored by=20 dealers since new though.

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Seen that too. Actually the Ka Klub don't have this sort of arrangement, but then the average age is similar to the average number of brain cells in use, heh.

Good luck either way...

That's a correct statement: 300 UKP for a car is no money and it beats walking by more than a mile. Just imagine: if driven regulary 300 UKP will be spent in a matter of about 2 months for fuel only.

Parts shouldn't be any problems: dirt cheap for scrappers and if not plentifull available in the former East Bloc. Probably postage will cost more than the part.

That said: it's a pre-VW Skoda of which Carl is a big fan. Me, I don't know, it has that typical mix of agricultur and outdated aura around it. My first car, FSO Polonez, had that too: dirt cheap (because nobody wanted it nor wanted to be seen in it), for me it was very reliable but that was only because I could repare it myself. Electronics could not break, there weren't any...

Comfort, noise levels, overall attention (lack of it) for details, roadholding and reliability are on another scale compared to modern cars but the hard core admirers qualify that as caracter.

Hey: on my FSO the driver seat broke at the piece where inclination is changed. Nothing a spot weld could not fix for ever. Just think of the face of a Mercedes/ VW/ Audi technician when he discovers that you welded your chair... On the FSO/ Skoda/ LAda / Volga etc however that is just normal :)

Tom De Moor

I understand that it was only badged as GTI in the uk, rest of the world got it as a Driver... as in 'GTI look'

Nope it was a highline in the rest of the world. The sticker in the boot will also say Golf Highline on Uk models.

Another option is to megasquirt a Felicia lump (one of the Sko-forum guy road rallyies his, or fit a Jenvey throttle body and ecu, and fit that using the original sump and oil pickup.

Left a 2.0 GTI off the lights in Passat estate the other day, poor lad looked so embarrassed!

Ah! Still, same difference, 'GTI look'

I don't know what the dealer network was thinking when they decided to put the GTi badge on them when they new a "real" GTi was coming from the factories not long down the line. It really hit the image of the golf. (not that the early 150bhp 1.8T was anything to shout about) I'd say the only decent mk4 GTi was the 25th Anniversary edition the extra 30bhp and better alloys made such a difference.

Oh, I didn't say, it's a 53-plate.

Not the proper early ones, nah, this is a late mark four...

Aye. But cars are very cheap over here. As SteveH said, that is tatty MK2 Golf GTi money. And a MK2 GTi goes quickly and has fuel injection.

They can be made to, but even a non turbo one is pushing the stock box. The you are looking at either a renault 21 or hewland box for mid engined, or a VW bus, or Porsche 911/912 box for rear engined, which tends to mean work on the rear suspension.

If I was going to do it, I would fit a Saab 900 turbo engine and box, and move the rear fiewall in a little. LH Jectronic is fairly simple. The Saab engine and trans is fairly compact if a little tall, and the engine being moved forward will help counteract the extra weight. Also, using the Saab driveshafts and maybe hubs, you could then use Saab discs and handbrake on disc calipers to upgrade the rear the discs instead of 9" drums.

Exactley.

Yup, UK specialist, international tramp courier and mailorder/ebay.

That is exactley it. Cable ties and gaffer tape are new fangled exotic additions to the tool kit.

And while it is certainly different, it isn't "that bad", just designed for the era and the job in hand.

Can you just imagine it. At Mercedes they could probably tell from the ECU that you had welded it with a stick arc, instead of a DC TIG too ;)

I think I might leave it. Looks like a heavy corroded steel brake pipe,=20 will need the underseal stripping and POR15/Chassis blacking then re- undersealing and the long recent MOT expires in October.

plus the =A3400 BIN has gone now the =A3300 reserve has gone. Might try to snipe at a silly low price if it doesn't go up too high,=20 but BIN would have been good. Could ahve gotten the insurance sorted and=20 got the tax when I picked it up before driving home.

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