hehe, I rather like this one

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Fiat bought the Yugo plant in an attempt to upgrade its own image.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I saw a Yugo for sale a few months ago for $800, my brother wanted to buy it, just to say he owns a Yugo...

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1999 Toyota Corolla VE (Mine)
2006 Honda Odyssey (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)

Good riddence.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I remember seeing a classified ad for a six-pack of Yugos for $1500.

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Palangi

2004 C240 Wagon 203.261 Baby Benz
2008 ML320 CDI Highway Cruiser
2006 Toyota Prius, Saving the Planet @ 48 mpg
2000 F-150, Destroying the Planet @ 20 mpg



TRUMP .......... WHITEHOUSE
HILLARY .........JAILHOUSE
BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
0BAMA .......... OUTHOUSE

They only suck because they were not in popular 80's movies. Also maybe their awful interiors, safety colors, and underpowered engine, catching on fire and they have hydraulic power doors, etc. It was made my drunk Canadians, mounties and moose, and not drunk Irishmen with rolls of electrical tape as wiring.

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1980 240d
1999 SL500

I for one will miss the Yugo. What other car rusted in the ship coming over here?

The only thing that comes close is the LeCar

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

The turbo version of the LeCar was the Mr. Hyde of the R5's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_5_Turbo

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

A guy I worked with bought one to make an electric car with. It did roll and steer fairly well.

You could actually cut yourself on the engine block, the castings were so rough.

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86 560SL
With homebrew first gear start!
85 380SL
Daily Driver Project

http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl/mercedes.htm

Drowning Mona begins with the death by drowning of Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) after the brakes of the Yugo she is driving fail, and the car plunges off a cliff. Mona is the luckiest person in this movie, however, because she dies without having to suffer through it, although she is dragged up in various people's memories and flashbacks.

Officer Rash (Danny DeVito) discovers that those brakes had been tampered with, and then must start sorting out the unusual suspects. Her husband? Her son? The woman they both are having an affair with? Her son's business partner--who happens to be Rash's daughter's fiancé? Just about anyone in the town, where, it seems, everyone hates Mona.

The first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck NY as a test area for their new model years ago. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers which are early Plymouth Horizon K-Cars. Every character's automobile has personalized license plates.

Lousy movie, but the Yugo angle with all the vanity plates was funny.

Nobody in Verplanck would be caught dead in a Yugo - way too foreign - but I guess "Verplanck" sounds funnier than some of the other places they could have picked.

The Bricklin SV-1 was the first car to pass the front crash test and the rear of the chasis demed intact enough to be used for the rear crash test. I think the Audi 5000 was the other. Also, its front end doesn't look like a VW's front end. I'm not point fingers at any other Gullwing, white line removing failure, mind you.
Tom

You're right...I had the '75 128 Wagon...1300cc engine, 4spd, 3dr. ...great car for a single person, "stuffy" with a driver, wife and kid...but I drove the floorboards off the thing...something like 200K+ miles when I finally sold it for $400.00...saw it about 3 weeks later on an overpass with its flashers on...then it disappeared...it didn't even show up in the local Pick&Pulls...

One of my operators had a Yugo...she was complaining that it was "wheezy" and slow. I opened the hood and saw, to my amazement, that the engine was a FIAT engine...then it hit me..my FIAT mechanic had mentioned, a few years before, that if the car wasn't allowed to "breathe" (by that, he meant "Floor the sucker and TRY to redline it...you never will."), or as some have mentioned in the past on OD, the "Italian Tuneup" - you'd experience performance issues (On the FIAT, not on the YUGO...he raced an "X 1/9" on the SCCA circuit...).

I took her and the car for run around the block...in 1st and 2nd only...she was having kittens in the front seat, freaking out about how she "...never treated the car like that, blah, blah, blah..." 'til we got back to the parking lot...less than a 1/2 mile and the carbon was cleaned out and she had her "new YUGO" back and performing like day one...she was absolutely floored that the engine could take that type of punishment and act even better when finished. (Before I did this, I made sure it had enough oil, asked her when it was last changed, that the timing belt was in good shape and not cracked or had worn "teeth" and made sure the E-brake was working properly!). After that, I'd hear her take that thing and wind it up heading out from work and down the road...she even got a ticket from the local cop for "excessive demonstration of power" - we laughed our @55es off about that one...I wish I had gotten a copy of that ticket...she ended up getting the ticket thrown out by the DA...he probably went home sick after laughing so hard...

But, you guys are right about the body integrity...it was if the sheet-metal was about 1/2 the thickness of regular auto-body sheet-metal and it almost seemed "go-cart-ish" (Even MORE SO than my 128!) by how it drove and handled.

I miss my 128...

BTW, I had a trailer hitch on my 128...used it to pull a MonkeyWards SmokerCraft 14' V-hull. I'd take it and the wife and kid fishing all the time...that 128 never hesitated pulling that thing and us around.

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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[quote=LUVMBDiesels;2026830]I for one will miss the Yugo. What other car rusted in the ship coming over here?

Try any Fiat Spider...my sis in law bought one fresh off the boat (2 days after being unloaded in Jacksonville) and the underbody was already rusted to ****...

ever work on one? If you put any weight on the plastic body panels they crack and or shatter. The only good thing about the stupid car is the engine. You can still pick up parts for it at napa if you want.