hi, I have a skoda favorit rally car reg no: H775ONT,

i was told that it was an ex works car and not a trophy car can anyone help me find out more about the car?

i only used the car on a couple of events with quite respectable results but, i was talked into using my other halves sunbeam for the remainder of the 2006, 5 of clubs championship (due to reliability problems), where i finished 3rd overall and won the 1300 class.( very proud of this being my first full year rallying).

Ricky, (my other half) wants me to sell the skoda,:thumbdwn: but i love the wee car and want to find out as much as i can about the car and hopefully find out why it just doesn't like running on webber or delorto twin forties, it keeps gasssing up and stalling and then floods and takes me forever to get going again ,he has tried altering jets and stuff but with no success, so thats why he put a 1300 engine in his sunbeam for me.

So if we cant get to the bottom of this problem then it will have to go.:(

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Thanks, michelle.

p.s. I up loaded a photo in the manage attachments section below but dont know if it has worked or not. thanks again, michelle.

Hi and welcome to Briskoda. I have moved this thread to the General Car Chat forum where it is more likely to attract attention.

PS. Have you queried its history here?

get in touch with the DVLA , they will have records of all the previous owners , and hunt the internet for rally photos of Skodas , you may be lucky and spot the registration number

Also ask for help in the 'other Models' section of this forum , thats where all the Favorit owners tend to hang out! Good luck , and don't sell it!

Not a sure sure indicator, but I'd expect a works car to have a welded-in rollcage Mich.

Also wrt the engine issue, I think a 1300 would be over-carbed on 2 side-drafts, certainly if the rest of the engine is to a works GpA spec, when a single downdraft compound would have been all that was allowed by the rules anyway.

hi, I have a skoda favorit rally car reg no: H775ONT,

i was told that it was an ex works car and not a trophy car can anyone help me find out more about the car?

Michelle,

Sorry to spoil the illusion, but I think it's very unlikely to be a works rally car. All the factory cars at that time came from Mlada Boleslav for each event & were taken back after. Customs Carnet rules meant they had to be. They were all left hand drive too and on Czech number plates. The shells used were "as thin as they could be" shall we say, and weren't plentiful even for the competition dept, so I doubt very much that a straight one made it back over here.

We certainly did our best to make sure there weren't many straight ones left

Duncan

(Co-Driver with Skoda Factory Team 1988-89)

Welcome to Briskoda, LeftFootBreaker. An interesting first post!

It certainly beats "Hi - I drive a Skoda" as a first post!

Welcome aboard Mr. LeftFootBreaker :wave: