I bought a Skoda

Well i went and did it. Found a Skoda Estelle 130 LSE on ebay and I bought it for £371. Got it home and it was every bit as good as I expected. Built by Ted Holloway as a trials car and only used once by him. he used it for thre Ilkley Trial and decided that although it was adequate he much prefers his two seat open special.

I drove it home across south east London, through the Blackwall Tunnel, out on the North Circular to the M11, round the M25 to the M40 and then up the A41 to home. It never missed a beat and kept up with the traffic. It came stuffed full of spares and when I got it home I fitted the sump guard, changed it back to the original Skoda petrol tank and got rid of the beetle one that had been put under the front and changed the oil. Then I added a new distributor cap and rotor arm as the old ones were knackered.

So far I have done a grass autotest and a 12 car rally in it. Both went well and it has performed OK. Had some fuel starvation problems as it picks up the rust from inside the old Skoda tanks but I can get the fuel filter out, cleaned and in again in a couple of minutes.