Skoda Estelle mk1 (Snotty!)

[Steve Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by grahamb

Would make an excellent 'drifter'.

Go wash your mouth out!

The Don Estelle is an ideal Rally Car and at a pinch will do muster on Speed Events and in Racing.

[Alpinepg]

Originally Posted by Steve Wilkinson

Go wash your mouth out!

The Don Estelle is an ideal Rally Car and at a pinch will do muster on Speed Events and in Racing.

Multi purpose!

driftyskoda

Having said that drifiting is a silly business so Snotty wont be going drifting!

[dennis.doyle]

First, I’m sure you’ll really enjoy running something “unusual”. Everyone will want to have a word & there’s no pressure on results & less on your bank balance.

Next, dunno if this helps, but John Haugland was quite closely associated with Knowldale Car Club in his “Surprising Skoda” days. Some members were variously co-drivers & support crew & he might even have been honorary president at some point. I’m pretty sure I remember one of them having an adaptor plate machined to make a “Fraud Skoda” (O.K. maybe I exaggerate - it was probably only fitting an XFlow to an Estelle). Doubt if they have any spare 8-port heads, but unless you ask, you’ll never know. Since they are up your way it might just be worth an email:

Link

My own experiences of Skoda’s are mixed & I won’t bore you with them, save to say my next road car will probably be a bottom of the range Octavia Estate – plenty of room to curl up around the Avons & get a good night’s sleep.

[Alpinepg]

Thanks Dennis...John Haughland is still around...in fact the roof lining inside Snotty is signed by him. Not sure about Knowledale car club, but I may give it a whirl. Its amazing how easy it is to find almost anything for the old Estelle......but a cast iron 8 port head is extremely unlikely. We're talking only a couple of hundred made from the early 1970s up to the mid 80s when the works team went to alloy.
Adaptor plates are quite common, there was a Fiat one on Ebay only last month...but I am sticking to keeping the car 'true' and in period.

[LM Racing]

Wow, what a fantastic car - keep going with it, can't wait to see it completed

[Alpinepg]

The engine is almost there now......

[AndyMil]

Don't know how you cope with so little room in the engine bay!!!

[jo white]

And all that weight flailing around

[Alpinepg]

I'll have you know that engine bay is tight compared to a single seater with no bodywork on and the engine is so heavy I only just lifted it into place on my own!!

[carl talbot]

I have a friend who Trials one of these

I've always wondered why they use such a strange shaped inlet with all that engine bay , assumed it must be heat related , but plenty of non x-flow motors don't have any prob. ?