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1966 Škoda 1000 MB De Luxe [Typ 721] 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2019-12-07 15:48 |
1966 Skoda 1000 MB [Typ 721]. |
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◊ 2019-12-07 23:15 |
a four year old car on the junkyard - not unusual in that time, especially for such low-price clunkers, as back-engine Skodas had been in West Germany. |
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◊ 2019-12-07 23:33 |
I made a few bob back in the day selling Skodas bought from the auctions. The rear engined cars were dead easy to work on, you could replace a clutch in no time flat. The Estelle was favourite, being that bit smarter. It was much easier than a VW, or a Hillman Imp. Never worked on a Crossley-Burney or a Tatra though. -- Last edit: 2019-12-07 23:35:58 |
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◊ 2019-12-07 23:43 |
@jfs: as I heard the worst back-engine car for engine-repairs have been the VW 411 and 412 Sedans. |
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◊ 2019-12-08 14:58 |
Ingo, I’ve never worked on one, they were well above my pay grade in the 1970s or 80s, but I think you have heard it correctly. |
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◊ 2019-12-08 16:53 |
Above your pay grade? Err, the VW 411/412 discontinued very fast to the cheapest used clunkers, already in the 70ies. In the 80ies grandpa-Typ4 in mint condition ended up in the shredder, because noone wanted to buy them. |
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◊ 2019-12-08 18:42 |
My wife’s cousin bought a new 412LE Variant in the mid 70s and it cost megabucks. Very few got sold here, at the time I was driving one or another of a collection of new Hillman Hunter Estates, the VW from memory, cost about 2 or 3 times the price of the Hunter. I may be a few years out, perhaps it was early to mid 70s, but the fuel injection, the Eberspacher? heater and the other stuff meant that it was well beyond me, both to buy and to work on. I think it was also automatic, a definite no-no. The lady in question took it back to Australia and kept it for years. -- Last edit: 2019-12-08 20:05:41 |
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