Hi guys,

I've always been an owner/driver/fettler of small Triumph Saloons, Toledo's and Dolomites mainly but have today just been to have a look at a Skoda 1000MB. Rather taken by it although the steering wheel is on the wrong side and the engine is in the wrong place....

Not knowing much about these od Skoda's In was hoping for a little advice on them, I've read up on what I can find so have a grounding on the history of these pre 1970 cars but other than that I'm pretty much in the dark. Was fun to drive and didn't seem to be lacking in power to my last 1300 Dolly. Is a well maintained one good enough to use almost daily 30ish miles to work there and back? What problems did they suffer from or likely to suffer from?

Whats it like getting hold of spares for these Skoda's....will I have to haggle in a market in Prague if I need an alternator?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I need to persuade the sensible half of my brain that I should go for it....

Many thanks

James

Hiya.

Used to drive a Toledo myself back in the day; got rid when it started suffering from piston slap.

The best answer to your questions is to repost them in the "RWD Skodas" forum, where you'll find people who know more or less everything about everything Skoda from the 1950s Felicia to the last Estelle/Rapid 136 of the 1980s including other MBs.

Whoops, thanks got a bit excited when I found this forum, been searching for a Skoda forum but didn't find much and as such didn't check where I was posting....

Tolly's are great fun and undervalued and much better than their bigger Dolomite cousins!! One half of my brain is saying "try something new" the other half is saying "stick to what you know!!"

Reposted on the RWD sub forum now, thanks.

James