'98 Skoda Felicia-UPDATE! New wheels and interior!

[Rich]

Massively un-retro in practice, I know. But its cheap diesel motoring and its fairly interesting. I've waited to get a fair chunk of work done before posting it so it makes a fairly interesing read

Started with this as my base, 1.9 Diesel Felica with some naff VW badges glued everywhere and a paintjob that even Stevie Wonder could see was dire.





Already had Alfa seats fitted though!



First mod was a piston gearknob.



Shortly followed by other little things like amber running lights in the turn signals, stuff like that..





Then I bought this rusty chunk of pink.



First thing I did was whip the factory strut brace off, (which only the petrol models got) painted it a gaudy colour and whopped it on.





Then I did this!



See where this is going?



yup. Thomas the tank engine truck. At least I can honestly say I've not seen an Octavia style fronted Felicia pickup before! ;D



Ride hieght was tweeked a little..



Before off to Area52 for some paint!











Didn't look quite aggro enough so I treated the lights to some paint..













And thats where we are at now! In the next update, you can hope to see this:



Finished

Enjoy!

[Lawsy]

lol, nice one mate

i just sprayed my side lights completely matt black and they still flash orange enough...

liking the idea of a matt black truck with side pipes... (not that i'm not biased tho of course)

and i would say it fits the retro ethos fine mate

thumbs up from me

[slackerTHEpinstriper]

oooooooooohhhhhhhhh blank canvas!!!!! ;D

[JamieS]

Thats sweet! If it wasnt for my need of 4 seats id have one of these hands down.. great ride

How about a td conversion? Oh and any plans to de chrome the grill? Maybe wrap it in camo or something?

[hairnet]

hahahahahaahhahaahahahaahahahahaha

excellent



saw this at work yesterday respec for raggin it from portugal lol

bit too high tho - don't get any floods round here heh

[oli8925]

I really really like it. If I needed a little pick up for work or parts hauling I'd definitely look to this for inspiration.

[stealthstylz]

I'm tempted to buy one of these. What's the load limit on them?

Matt

[welshpug]

I like that definitely a fan of the mk1 octavia type nose

[Del]

In the words of Zaphod Beeblebrox, 'That is so cool, you could keep a side of meat in it for a month'.

[naanbread]

i do like my pick ups

I had a skoda felicia estate 1999 diesel a few years back and that had a strut brace standard?

[surprisingskoda]

Was the blue really bad? it really stood out then.
Needs some cool wheels too. A bit of chrome dish wouldn't hurt!

[Rich]

Jun 24, 2011 21:21:14 GMT JamieS said:

Thats sweet! If it wasnt for my need of 4 seats id have one of these hands down.. great ride

How about a td conversion? Oh and any plans to de chrome the grill? Maybe wrap it in camo or something?

Felicia Fun. That has 4 seats
I like the chrome grille. I'll be putting the new style Felicia badges on too. Just that tiny hint of chrome kinda thing

Jun 24, 2011 23:40:32 GMT naanbread said:

I do like my pick ups

I had a skoda felicia estate 1999 diesel a few years back and that had a strut brace standard?

Well, haynes says only petrol models had strut braces. The car I have has no anti roll bar, so maybe its just a bit of whatever they had lying about? Maybe its just the pickups that didn't get one, we know what late haynes manuals are like! I have the best of both worlds now though with the ARB and the brace

Jun 25, 2011 1:55:34 GMT surprisingskoda said:

Was the blue really bad? it really stood out then.
Needs some cool wheels too. A bit of chrome dish wouldn't hurt!

The blue really was that bad. It had runs and bad filler everywhere. EVERYWHERE. The stripes had no paint under them either, because it was all stuck to the stripes
I have some wheels in mind but can't afford anything too extravagant at the moment. Dish would be nice though

[ims]

Braces are hit and miss but no arb's strange most dervs came with them, looks good so far, seen a fair few with the late nose. Good trucks so long as the rear wells around the struts havent rotted out, if you ever need any bits drop me a shout i nreak them pretty much weekly.

[Rich]

Jun 25, 2011 14:56:19 GMT ims said:

Braces are hit and miss but no arb's strange most dervs came with them, looks good so far, seen a fair few with the late nose. Good trucks so long as the rear wells around the struts havent rotted out, if you ever need any bits drop me a shout I nreak them pretty much weekly.

Truck HAS the ARB, the car didn't.
Never seen any with the complete front end. Well, never in real life and googling brings up little either. But I didn't do it because of that, I just like it
Got any decent tail lights? ;D Need a pair of lights that aren't smashed to bits!!

[Siert]

Weird... I prefer the older Felicia front end, and I don't generally like matt black. But that combination of "modern" front and matt black works really well!

[ims]

ah I'm with you...

sorry mate i don't got a waiting list for the buggers! i normally charge £70 a pair

[grizz]

Well done so far, especially the panel exchange.

Not mad on the matt black, but it could be the basis for something a whole lot more interesting.

Will keep an eye on here.

[lewist123]

Love the truck.

Two of my friends ran Feli pickups for a while. Great little trucks.

And to confirm the common internet banded myth. I did actually prefer the 1.3 skoda powered one VS the 1.6 vag powered one!!

Anyway, again really nice looking truck. I personally havn't seen a feli truck run an octavia nose and I love it!

Lewis

[mortcars]

ive always wanted a felicia fun, and love the look of the mk1 octavia front end on this, good work!

[rodney]

thats well cool,.