Hi there from Krakow

Hi All, 

Just became a happy owner of a Felicia 1.3MPI Combi (I think this is what you'd call estate)

I must say, i've alwyas been for all things Czech. My First "normal" bike: Jawa 350... My Favorite beer: Svijany, first car ever (without licence of course): Skoda S100... (sad story,Mother sold it to metal collecting Gypsies for peanuts... not like it was not a rusty wreck but still...) 

Anyway, here i go now with a Felicia. 

1997, absolute basic model (for some unfathomable reason this is what most appeals to me) 1.3 MPI engine, 63000km on the clock (that is genuine) from first owner who bought it in a Bydgoszcz dealership. I bought the car in Bydgoszcz.  That said... even though this is a proper grandpa car (and did no more than a few hundred kms between MOTs over the last few years) and probably spent most of it's time in a garage, it has some rust, but hey... I wanted an original, low-mileage preferably first owner, garaged, cheap Felicia. I got that. with some rust. 

The first ride home (more than the car did over the last two years in total) was uneventful. It feels stronger than my other grandpa car (Opel Astra F 1.4) but engine sounds harsher, slight oscillating in revs (it got better after 400km) a bit of vibrating steering wheel over 100km/h, but in general, better than what expected. 

The idea? I wanted a Felicia as I always liked them, though never got around owning one, and i wanted an estate to help with the upcoming refurbishment project. It also had to be cheap (refurbishing an old farmhouse) so no Jeep XJ 1990-1994 with manual windows and the 2.5 petrol engine. The Felicia will have to do now. Oh, I wanted reliability and low running costs. And since i usually end up liking my cars and bikes too much to sell them... Probably it will be welded out and kept for a long time. So far it delivers perfectly. 

Happy to have found this forum, seems to be full of interesting stuff, and i hope we can have a ball digging in old Skodas!

Z