Model: Škoda 120L
Year: 1990
Mileage: 85000
Tax: No
MOT: February 2012
Location: Norfolk
Price: 275
Additional Information:
I've been wavering about selling this for ages now - partly because when I had it on the road it was great fun to drive, and partly because it owes me way more than I'm ever likely to get back for it in its current condition.
It's an H-reg 120L - one of the last of the saloons. There's been some debate over whether it's a special edition or not, but it's certainly not a standard 120L. It's been fitted with a twin-choke Weber conversion, a freer-flowing exhaust, and it's been lowered with Spax shocks all round, and bucket seats in the front. It also had a Facet electric fuel pump when I bought it, but this has since been nicked for my Citroën DS, and the original Jikov pump was pressed back into service - it worked fine for a while and then packed up. I have, however, now bought a replacement mechanical pump, which I will be fitting as soon as I get to see the car in daylight.
Unfortunately the head gasket has also gone - the engine still starts and runs fine (I started it last weekend and pulled it up the drive so I could get a trailer into the garden) but it's using water and the oil is looking rather creamy, so this would need doing before it is put back into use.
It does have a current MoT until February, but it would need some loving before passing another one. The tyres are not a lot of good (it passed the MoT on borrowed wheels from a friend's 130LSE), the horn doesn't currently work and there's no screenwash pump or bottle fitted (again these were borrowed from another car for the test). Main beam can also be temperamental, due to some "interesting" wiring to the relays in the boot. Other lights all work though, as do the indicators, hazards and wipers, and the rev counter and fuel gauge.
Bodywork seems pretty solid, although it does need a good polish at the moment and there's a patch of grey primer on one corner of the boot lid where I treated some rust bubbles that were forming.
I would advise coming to have a poke around the car if you're interested - I've owned it for four years now and so probably don't notice some of its little quirks any more. Obviously it won't be able to be driven away (unless you live on my street) but it will start up and drive onto a trailer etc. It should make a straightforward project and is immense fun to drive when it's running properly. I'm sorry to be selling it in a lot of ways but realistically I'm not going to get round to doing anything with it until the spring, by which time it'll be out of test, and I could really do with the drive space.
Here's a photo of the car taken a while back, to give you an idea - I will take some more photos once I get to see the car in daylight, which won't be till the weekend.
Year: 1990
Mileage: 85000
Tax: No
MOT: February 2012
Location: Norfolk
Price: 275
Additional Information:
I've been wavering about selling this for ages now - partly because when I had it on the road it was great fun to drive, and partly because it owes me way more than I'm ever likely to get back for it in its current condition.
It's an H-reg 120L - one of the last of the saloons. There's been some debate over whether it's a special edition or not, but it's certainly not a standard 120L. It's been fitted with a twin-choke Weber conversion, a freer-flowing exhaust, and it's been lowered with Spax shocks all round, and bucket seats in the front. It also had a Facet electric fuel pump when I bought it, but this has since been nicked for my Citroën DS, and the original Jikov pump was pressed back into service - it worked fine for a while and then packed up. I have, however, now bought a replacement mechanical pump, which I will be fitting as soon as I get to see the car in daylight.
Unfortunately the head gasket has also gone - the engine still starts and runs fine (I started it last weekend and pulled it up the drive so I could get a trailer into the garden) but it's using water and the oil is looking rather creamy, so this would need doing before it is put back into use.
It does have a current MoT until February, but it would need some loving before passing another one. The tyres are not a lot of good (it passed the MoT on borrowed wheels from a friend's 130LSE), the horn doesn't currently work and there's no screenwash pump or bottle fitted (again these were borrowed from another car for the test). Main beam can also be temperamental, due to some "interesting" wiring to the relays in the boot. Other lights all work though, as do the indicators, hazards and wipers, and the rev counter and fuel gauge.
Bodywork seems pretty solid, although it does need a good polish at the moment and there's a patch of grey primer on one corner of the boot lid where I treated some rust bubbles that were forming.
I would advise coming to have a poke around the car if you're interested - I've owned it for four years now and so probably don't notice some of its little quirks any more. Obviously it won't be able to be driven away (unless you live on my street) but it will start up and drive onto a trailer etc. It should make a straightforward project and is immense fun to drive when it's running properly. I'm sorry to be selling it in a lot of ways but realistically I'm not going to get round to doing anything with it until the spring, by which time it'll be out of test, and I could really do with the drive space.
Here's a photo of the car taken a while back, to give you an idea - I will take some more photos once I get to see the car in daylight, which won't be till the weekend.
please sell it back to me!
