6 door Skoda Estelle Limo and other elongated shite.

[Spiny Norman]

A mate of mine posted this photo he'd taken today onto our Facebook car group, and I was trying to find out about it but info seems quite scarce. It appears on a Flickr page, taken at what looks like one of the Brum NEC classic car shows a few years back but that's all I can find.
Anyone know anything more about it?

[Supernaut]

I don't have any info, but I have these from the 2016 NEC classic show.

[bunglebus]

Hella cool. Imagine rocking up outside Spearmint Rhino in that.

[Jikovron]

Its owned by a guy called James Goulding who has a vast collection of showroom ornaments, he posts about it and other estelles he has etc on the skoda club gb facebook page 

I hear it was a 120 quad light super estelle converted to a limo when relatively new and then facelifted with estelle 2 mechanicals and the front rear panels and lights etc.

 

[skoda_fan]

I understand it was either built by or commissioned by Fortune Auto Sales (Skoda dealers at the time) whose name is on the rear wing. From what I've seen it's very professionally done. It ended up for quite a few years in the showroom of ex-Skoda dealership turned specialists Whitehill Garage in Kent (now closed). I think it was they who showed it at the NEC. It's now in the safe hands of a Skoda Owners' Club member. When it was first built it had the earlier style front end, hence the Y-reg. It was updated when the later Estelles came out.

[somewhatfoolish]

That's immense. What other autoshite limos were created for things like this or more ordinary carriage-trade reasons? I've seen pics of Wedge limos and there's that hideous Omega limo that keeps appearing on the Tat thread.

[Spiny Norman]

Cheers for the info chaps, certainly looks like a professional job.

 

[Austat]

A photo of it before it's facelift:

[bunglebus]

Even cooler before the update

Not much that hasn't been stretched over the years

 

[Peter C]

Believe it or not, these two limos were built at the factory by FSO. They’re called Jamnik, which means sausage dog (Dachshund) in Polish.

 

[Supernaut]

Is this just turning into a thread of unlikely limousines?

 

Here's a Porsche 914.

[anonymous user]

If we're doing silly limousines, how about a normal limousine that was built as a one off convertible.

The Frua bodied Rolls Royce Phantom Vi

[somewhatfoolish]

It's a bit BOBFOC innit? The headlamp treatment is horrible. Looks good from that angle though.

[anonymous user]

I thought it was a one off, apparently there is at least one more, a four door with a less FAB1 front treatment

[BL Bloke]

The four door does look better from the front, reminds me a bit of a Camargue

[The Vicar]

21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Hella cool. Imagine rocking up outside Spearmint Rhino in that.

..or the house of a grieving widow, to accompany a hearse to the cemetery! 

[Timewaster]

I actually prefer the pre face lift Estelle. That six door effort is awesome. 

[UltraWomble]

[brownnova]

Funnily enough... just saw the Skoda on Instagram. 
 

 

And the stretched Yugo has blown my mind! 

[Spiny Norman]

On 6/12/2020 at 6:44 AM, Peter C said:

 

 

 

That Polonez is awesome. ?

I bet if you looked hard enough you'd find just about everything will have been limo-ised at some point.

[Spiny Norman]

Probably handles better than the original.

[bunglebus]

From the unlikely to the sacrilegious

[155V6]

[155V6]

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

From the unlikely to the sacrilegious

That’s not a real Countach!

[bunglebus]

Think this one was in Chrome and Flames mag years ago

 

[chaseracer]

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

YOU WIN! ?

[Noel Tidybeard]

some gentlemen* of good taste* had this or one very like it in Birminghamshire a couple of years ago

thet seem to have switched to hummer, rangerooney, aldi q7 type chod (in white naturally)

[bunglebus]

I've seen the signwritten Regal in the flesh. Or in the fibreglass if you prefer