Friday, 2 August 2019

From behind the Iron Curtain - Restoration of a Škoda 130

In the second half of the eighties, the Matchbox International produced a Czechoslovakian car, the Škoda 130 LR. This was a surprise for the East European collectors, because it wasn't a usual thing that East European cars would appear in an international model car producer's catalogue. This type of the Škoda was a rallye version, but I made a civil one out of it.


About some 15 yers ago I Tried to repaint it but I didn't like the result. The last year I made the decesion to repaint it; so it got a vivid metallic green colour.


Luckily in this case its parts were alright, I changed only the wheels.



And the last step: paint the details:








Although there were collectors, who wanted to by this Škoda, it has been restored for my own collection!

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