Finally finished with my first color change, I returned the Felicia Fun back to the OEM 2 tone yellow and put the wood bed back in

Posted by Suydans_Imports@reddit | projectcar | View on Reddit | 16 comments

This is my 2nd ever paint job and 1st time doing a two tone paint job or color change. It's not perfect by any means and needs a bit of wet sanding to clean up my clear but it looks good from 5ft away so I'm happy with it overall.The last 2 pictures are how it looked before

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radXR650R@reddit

Wth is that? First time seeing the car, it's like a mini El Camino. Yellow is very bold for such a small thing.

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soedesh1@reddit

I saw one of these for the first time last year at the big VW show in PA (L’OE Show). Sooooo cool!

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Suydans_Imports@reddit (OP)

The gentleman who's buying this from me said he will be taking it to the L'oe show this year since he's only an hour away over in Lancaster

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Suydans_Imports@reddit (OP)

It's essentially a 2nd gen vw rabbit that we never received in that states. It's the rarest variant skoda ever made, only 612 were made in rhd and there's only a little over 100 still left on the roads

The rear bulkhead folds out for a rear jumper seat like in the pics or it can fold back in flush like a regular cab truck so you can choose if you want a 2 seat or 4 seat truck. Also even though it's only a little 1.6l vw gas engine, it can haul 2k pounds behind it and a bit over 1k in the bed so you can haul most atvs, dirt bikes, or even motorcycles in the bed

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radXR650R@reddit

Super useful it seems. Really cool car/truck.

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carpetvolcano@reddit

looks way better with that two tone! how long did the whole color change process take you? painting is such a money pit but so worth it when you see the final result

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Suydans_Imports@reddit (OP)

Thank you! It came out to roughly 2 months of working on it in my off time which was a good bit longer than I was expecting but it's because I was getting nitpicky with the bodywork trying to make it 100% perfect especially the bed and then the taping and painting took me a bit longer as well due to the same reason

The paint and supplies alone were well over $1k because the paint ended up being around $100 a pint for my local shop to mix up but I was originally quoted at 8k and 12k by other shops to do it so it was definitely worth it for me to save all that money

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ozzy_thedog@reddit

Thats an awesome little truck!! Good work on the paint

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Suydans_Imports@reddit (OP)

Thank you!

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Fiuman_1987@reddit

Oh man I remember these, you could slide the rear seat into cargo space to have half convertible right?

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Suydans_Imports@reddit (OP)

That is correct and they even had a very rare oem option for a removable soft top to cover the rear seats whenever they were folded out

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MyMotorStory_app@reddit

Some says that yellow is odd colour for cars, I say it is perfect! Especially if add some subtle black lines to it!