Just wondering if any of you out there in BBS land remember the good old
Yugo.
I fix up old and odd ball cars to pass time over the winter months. As a
mechanic I try and find cars that I don't see or work on in my day to day
life.
A few years back it was a VW Rabbit, Then an datsun 610, this year its a
1988 Yugo GV.
I found it a few hours away in need of some serious work, and decided the
time was right to see for myself if the Yugo really was the worst car ever
built.
I'm about 70% back together with it, and I can tell you already... IT IS
NOT!
It its a funky little car with the bare essentials needed to function.
If I had to critisize it for anything it would be that they decided to use
old school vacum switching valves to control everything in 1988! This car
sould have had an o2 sensor, ect, map sensor, and at least a electronicly
controled carb if not fuel injection.
But to save money they installed one heck of a convoluted air
pump/egr/thrmostatic control system that looks like it was thought up by a
grade schooler.
Still it seems well built, and for a 30 year old car its in good overall
shape.
So any former Yugo owners out there? Any first or second hand stories to
share?
Next year I was thinking about tracking down a Dihatsu charade, another rare
flop.
take care.
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