Fantastic, your car looks like a proper Tarmac spec wrc.

If you can get some photographs in a more picturesque location then surely your car deserves a place in the 2017 briskoda calendar.

Thanks,I'm growing more fond of the look by the day but picked up another car today so that will take priority and don't know if I'll want to do anything more to the octy :(

So putting it on the road and taking it somewhere for some better photos may never happen.

so for the time been it can stay parked up and I'll decide what to do later on in the year and if it comes to it I'll sell it if somebody wants to take it further or just break it for bits.

Thanks,I'm growing more fond of the look by the day but picked up another car today so that will take priority and don't know if I'll want to do anything more to the octy :(

So putting it on the road and taking it somewhere for some better photos may never happen.

so for the time been it can stay parked up and I'll decide what to do later on in the year and if it comes to it I'll sell it if somebody wants to take it further or just break it for bits.

Nooooooooo this needs to hit the summer shows/meets can't throw all that amazing work away, you've created a real one off

Nooooooooo this needs to hit the summer shows/meets can't throw all that amazing work away, you've created a real one off

Cheers Darrell but it's no show car,it looks ok on pics but up close it's not so great,it's only a patchy rattle can paint job with no major prep work,in fact I recon a pressure washer nozzle close up would blast all the paint off back to it's original black magic paint haha

I'm just not sure if I'd really use it for anything so I'll leave it sat there for now until I know what I want to do with it.

Not very good but good, just a quick edit. (Hope you don't mind)

 

Not very good but good, just a quick edit. (Hope you don't mind)

That's brilliant dude! Don't need to criticise yourself at all[emoji106]

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That's quality Dean and much appreciated

So this is not an update,it's an end of the line sign off from me

last night a forum member came and bought the octy and took it away(eventually as it was a bit of a chore getting the wide boy on the trailer lol)

I assume from a comment earlier on my new build thread by simon that the person in question has identified himself as the new owner on Facebook but as I don't go on there then I haven't seen anything,but will leave it to him to say in case he hasn't told everyone.

Anyway the car has sat in my back garden and not really been used over the last few years and since going into the extreme mode in matt black it only ventured out about 2 or 3 times and then never even went on the road whilst it was all white or finally the wrc wannabe look.i only changed it white and then put the stickers on as I just wanted to see how it would of looked just so I had no regrets before getting rid and I never really had any plans to put it on the road because like I've said before I had no use for it.

I originally wanted to break it as I felt that would fetch the most cash but I never really had the time or even the heart to start pulling it to bits but on the other hand I didn't want to sell complete because the car ain't great up close,has no mot,has a few issues and a lot of irreversible mods but the buyer was adamant that he wasn't bothered and wanted to take it complete so that's what happened,he has told me he wants to tidy and fix it up and do his own thing to it and if that's what he wants to do then I'm happy with that and will look forward to seeing what happens with it but even if he decides it's not for him and he just wants to break it for bits then I'm happy with that also

As far as I'm concerned it has been the best car I have ever owned and have had a great 13 years with it and enjoyed taking it through all the different stages it's been through.

Thanks to all those that have helped out and advised over the years and for all the positive and negative comments about it over the different stages of it's life,it's been an epic journey and unfortunately it's come to an end but onwards and upwards as they say,plus I have my new project in my life so it's all good.

I will still be active on the forum but not as much, but will pop on to update my new project thread for those interested and will still browse the octavia section as I still think there a great car,plus it's good to see what other people do to their cars

So farewell guys and gals,it's been emotional lol

Sad to hear, but as long as you are happy with the deal, than that is all that matters really.

 

If I'm not being too nosey, what is your new project?.

 

Edit, don't worry, just found the 996 thread - very nice

Edited 16 May, 201610 yr by kentphil1

Wow I didn't think you'd ever let it go. Must have been hard to see it disappear on a trailer.

Gutted man, yeah he's on fb and said he'd bought it and is doing his own thing with it which is great. Been awesome following the build and it was the car that made me get my mk1 originally.

Thanks kentphil1,it was sad to let it go but I knew deep down that it would never end up back on the road and would just sit on the garden deteriorating over time,glad you like the new project too

Cheers Rob,I thought it would be with me forever too and if I'd never gone down the stripped out interior route then it could of still been in use today as it was only the fact of having no back seat etc that made it impractical so just always had to use the wife's car instead and it was strange watching it drive away on a trailer and knowing it would never return :(

Cheers for the kind comments and enthusiasm for my build over the years Si,it's been appreciated

Well firstly I would like to say a massive thanks to Dan who has granted me a honor in owning one of Briskodas Mk1 Legends, I'am not a fan of build threads as I tend to miss alot of what has been done or post in a jumbled order, but as the car was well documented here I'll follow on from Dans great work...

 

Few little updates before I go and make a Thread continuation

 

Spoiler is sold and to be removed and replaced with a Wrc wing

Areo wipers trimmed down so as not to touch the sun strip/graphics

Every time I see this car I wonder if the wheel arch extensions can be filled with filler so the arches looks blended together out of one peace with the rest of the body, like the real WRC kit...