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The Yugo???? Dude only repairs Yugos

The Ladas were designed to start and keep going in Russian winters, which says a lot actually.
I fancy a Lada Niva, they're still around only in LHD format.
Friend of mine bought a Moskvich saloon, for buttons. It was actually ok but he didn't have it long - flipped in within a fortnight for twice what he paid, and that was still buttons.
 
Grimly said:
The Ladas were designed to start and keep going in Russian winters, which says a lot actually.
I fancy a Lada Niva, they're still around only in LHD format.
Friend of mine bought a Moskvich saloon, for buttons. It was actually ok but he didn't have it long - flipped in within a fortnight for twice what he paid, and that was still buttons.
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Uses the engine as a spare tire warmer.
 
Brendan W said:
We got the Lada incarnation.
How do you double the value of a Lada? - Fill the tank.
Why do Ladas have heated rear windows? - To keep your hands warm when pushing them.
What do you call a Lada with a sunroof? - A dumpster.
A colleague bought one, in fairness at a price you couldn't refuse. He would brag about the fuel consumption and someone would sneak out and pour a gallon into his tank. His claims got more incredible as the weeks went on until eventually he twigged it :)
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Once upon a time there was a few patrons of KFC awaiting their order to come up. My college buddies and two other people. The cordon ropes for directing sheeple was difficult to figure out for one poor fellow and he and his university jacket were mocked after his lengthy and complicated effort to achieve egress.

Jesus there a clever lad! what ya think he studies? Obviously he is a mechanical engineering student!
Laughter abounded. Even the clerk laughed when he realized we weren't making fun of him.

But egged on by the jocose meandering and its euphoria. I asked which car he was going to get into. Well I says being he's an engineering student it'll be the Lada.
It was not the Lada. OH Crap!

The air pulled out of the room as the heretofore co-conspirator in mirth slowly realized we were mocking his car. And yah know gosh he went on a butt hurt spiel how his car was money in the bank and the best decision he ever made. Ad Nauseum. Poor sorry sad old git. he was 30 if a day and old men can really get a lip on.
 
Grimly said:
The Ladas were designed to start and keep going in Russian winters, which says a lot actually.
I fancy a Lada Niva, they're still around only in LHD format.
Friend of mine bought a Moskvich saloon, for buttons. It was actually ok but he didn't have it long - flipped in within a fortnight for twice what he paid, and that was still buttons.
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Those Niva's are cool, saw a few in Australia. I had several Fiat 124 Coupes, that 1608 DOHC with twin 40IDF Webers (if you could get them) screamed. I got 200K out of one with a couple valve jobs. the bottom end was fine. 2nd gear syncrho was a bad area, crunch. But fun to drive and cheap to keep.​
 
zuluwiz said:
There's something missing here...............where are the Trabants?
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Next door neighbour has one. It suddenly appeared about ten years ago and has never left his drive.
The last incarnation of the Trabbie with the VW engine was an interesting small car but this one isn't, just normal horrible one.
 
Grimly said:
Next door neighbour has one. It suddenly appeared about ten years ago and has never left his drive.
The last incarnation of the Trabbie with the VW engine was an interesting small car but this one isn't, just normal horrible one.
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Fuel rank under hood above engine.
 
Fiat 128 could be a really fun car. A Yugo should have been as well. Poorly made copy using inferior material. Even Fiats and BMWs of a certain age used quick rusting inferior Solviet Union steel. Had a girlfriend with a tricked out X-19 and a buddy had a hot rodded Fiat 128. I helped my brother do the front brakes on his Fiat 124 Spider. The discs were new from a Yugo dealer. Go figure.
 
850 Combat said:
Fiat 128 could be a really fun car. A Yugo should have been as well. Poorly made copy using inferior material. Even Fiats and BMWs of a certain age used quick rusting inferior Solviet Union steel. Had a girlfriend with a tricked out X-19 and a buddy had a hot rodded Fiat 128. I helped my brother do the front brakes on his Fiat 124 Spider. The discs were new from a Yugo dealer. Go figure.
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Fiat used Soviet steel? Did not know this.
More anecdotes about the X-19 please. A car that should have been made much better.
Thanks!
 
Buffalo Bill said:
Fiat used Soviet steel? Did not know this.
More anecdotes about the X-19 please. A car that should have been made much better.
Thanks!
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The story was that the Italian Govt did a deal with the SU for the old Fiat body line for the 124, which went on to become a Lada model. Instead of using hard currency reserves to pay for it, the SU paid in a barter arrangement using rolled steel, vodka, potatoes and grain.
However, even though the story makes sense and certainly accounts for the utter rubbish quality steel used in various Fiat and Lancia models of the time, I've since been informed it never happened that way.
 
rphillips said:
I never owned one but from rumors I'd heard, always thought that "Reliable Yugo" was probable an oxy moron.
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Had a neighbor that for some reason had a thing for Yugos and Ford rangers???

Surprised the city never got on his case for several sitting around his property,
He told me he worked as a union painter and his jobs were always at least fifty miles away and he got his first yugo because of good fuel mileage.

the one he drove the most was a white one, I took him to a place where he bought ecm? Computer for it.

he put it in and it ran great for about a month, same problem, so I went with him again to another place to get another computer ecm? For it.

.month later same thing happened, instead of getting another one...he put the original computer ecm? In and it ran great for a month....so he just kept them in vehicle and would just rotate the three....he did that for about a year...then he moved away...lol

still laugh about the time I seen a old Ford ranger across town with for sale sign in window, black rattle can primer on it.

one day the Yugo neighbor asked me if I'd call and offer the $300 for it.

I said why don't you call them and ask? He said he already did, said he offered them $500 over the phone, they were asking $800 ,they accepted his 500 offer.

so I did, we went over there and bought it for three...then I thought to myself If I'd known they'd take three hundred I'd bought it ? LOL

It smoked a little 2.3 four cylinder, he just parked in his yard with the other four he had...lol
 
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