Car-spotting thread
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Captain Brainstorm
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Gotta ask, how much this was selling for? I'm just curious to know how much people have lost their minds just because something is old.
It was just part of a classic car display that they had set up in the basement of the convention hall. I did talk to another person who was checking it out who said that he'd purchased one new when he was in college.
They also had nicer stuff there like this:
Captain Brainstorm
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That’s much nicer. Having experience the Yugo back in the day, I’d say that if people start over-paying for them now, the apocalypse is right around the corner.
Magic
Formerly 1sh0t1b33r
After looking for dumb old cars for a while, the prices don't even seem that bad to me anymore. Unrestored classic Mini's are typically 12-25k. I've seen some Yugo's come up on FB for 10-15k.
Captain Brainstorm
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10-15k for a Yugo? Someone actually paid that price? What's the appeal, to drive it around ironically? I'm surprised those POS's (and I use the term POS generously) haven't all turned to dust at this point.
It's still an interesting piece of history.
It reminds me of when I go to a car show and someone has some weird Chevy delivery van from the 50s or something. It's a weird vehicle that probably has no great driving dynamics, but I'm glad someone keeps that piece of history running.
Mustangs/Corvettes/Camaros etc get pretty boring. It's gotta be at least 20 years since I've even seen a Yugo so I'd stop and check it out if I saw one.
Captain Brainstorm
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I guess its a matter of perspective. Being from Eastern Europe and having then lived in Europe, I find any vehicle from there completely uninteresting (there's nothing interesting about shit build quality and egregious slowness), except for the odd armored Chaika. The best was cruising the Autobahn back in 90-91 and passing these Lada's etc. around 100mph faster than they were going. There was a local grass-roots movement at the time to get these things off of the road because they were so slow they were hazards. Those poor East Germans, Poles, and Czechs, getting their first taste of freedom didn't know the rules about staying out of the left lane except to pass (same as most people in NJ and NY).
JerseyPete
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When they first came out I looked at them. For $4k new, why not. I called Bayless Racing in Georgia where I used to get all my Fiat parts. They said the only way those cars would go fast would be if you pushed it off a cliff. Stay away from them.
I looked up Bayless and it looks like it was bought out and moved to the midwest. Looks like they sold a Yugo recently too.
THATmanMANNY
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One of most advanced cars but can’t use BT
ekuhn
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Saw the flower express on 78 this morning in the weather mess around 9:30. I've seen that car before! Couldn't see driver tho.
Also if you like Dirty South rides, here's some a chariot racing special from H-Town, TX.
rick81721
Lothar
I find it funny how some people at car shows throw so much money into restoring something ridiculous. Like a VW hatchback that I posted in January that we see around Sarasota. And the guy will talk anyone's ear off about it!
Is it ridiculous though? There could be some background you don't know about.
That guy with the VW Hatchback could have memories of when his dad brought it home new as a present for his Mom, and went from child seat to it being the car he drove when he got his license.
Or he's one of those VW weirdos. But still...
mntal
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there was only one thing I could think of that would drive the flower patterned disaster.
So you've gone from calling a human being "it" to "thing"? In a thread devoted to spotting cars? That's...mature.
rick81721
Lothar
He was def a VW weirdo...
Captain Brainstorm
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VW people are nuts (I include myself in this). We have high tolerances for pain. Now my son is one. I have an old GTI that I was going to reluctantly send to the dump because the floor is rusting out, but now my son has gotten a hold of it and him and friend are going to cut the old floor out and weld in new floor panels, rockers, etc. He thinks its going to be a 1-2-3 cut and weld job (boy is he in for a shock). Its better than playing video games and vaping like all the other kids I guess.
sundaydoug
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Ho. Lee. Shit.