Love it or loathe it Fso Polonez . .

[ladalout69]

'80s Bentleys look like they were designed by FSO.

80's Bentleys look more like Lada Riva 1600s....... They even have a nice chrome grille and the chrome cappings on the bumpers!. Ah the dear old vomiting FSO, it was great!. We were pushing it backwards and forwards in gear to free of a semi siezed engine, I was at the front and thought "Ooh look, its starting to spit a bit from that empty plug hole" then a good hard shove sent the fountain over Rich.

[Richieg]

pmsl!!

That was funny,it was then i had bonded with my FSO!!

It clearly did the job though because she now runs!!

I just can't wait to get her back and let Mr Ladalout work his eastern european magic on it (he isn't eastern european incidently just very clued up on them)

There you go enough compliments this evening lol

 

cheers

 

Richie

[Guest]

Is that your pick-up in your avatar?

 

No mine is caro pickup although I would like to get my hands on a 125p pickup.

 

You can see mine here

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58984389@N04/

[Mash]

The 125 pick-ups were quite popular for a time I seem to remember. My dad's cousin ran a grey E-reg one with a plastic tilt cover on it for his decorating business.

[nigel bickle]

I ran a couple ,an average blue F plate with a Fiat twink, and a boogers red J plate- sold to a mate in Kent. Despite assurances, he sold it on shortly after; late last year. Spotless.

Been through a few saaloons too, and own several original Fiat 125's. Fun.

[Guest]

Well if you come across another for sale Mr. Bickle please let me know

[nigel bickle]

Umm

 

Well -theres one on Ebay now. Will that do?

[Guest]

How spooky is that, I see it's already attracted a bid of £500

[ProgRocker]

Another FSO pickup here. looks rather beefy.

 

click

[Richieg]

Blimey these FSO's really are coming out of the woodwork!

I bet the DVLA are intrigued at all these FSO's seem to be appearing lol

I have just applied for my logbook actually as i wasn't given one when my friends picked her up and they charge you £25 for the blinkin logbook now (if you were not given one),i think that is such a rip off personally but i want it in my name so i can tax it eventually . . .

 

cheers

 

Richie

[HillmanImp]

Blimey these FSO's really are coming out of the woodwork!

I bet the DVLA are intrigued at all these FSO's seem to be appearing lol

I have just applied for my logbook actually as i wasn't given one when my friends picked her up and they charge you £25 for the blinkin logbook now (if you were not given one),i think that is such a rip off personally but i want it in my name so i can tax it eventually . . .

 

cheers

 

Richie

 

if it was in the scrapyard and it was registered 'scrap', can you get it back on the road. i thought once it was scrap thats it or did i make that up? I presume this was not?

[Richieg]

Well luckily it turned out it was more of a banger boy scrap yard than a breakers yard!

If it was a Breakers yard you would be right i would never get a look in with any car in there as they all have a one ticket to heaven don't they!

The guy did have the logbook but he lost it . . . bit of a bummer but hey ho fingers crossed i will get a nice new on in my name soon!

 

 

cheers

 

Richie

[stuboy]

i have a workshop manual for 125p somewhere

[Vinylseats]

Is this known about or is actually anybody's on here?

 

Story of the purchase:

[Guest]

Hadn't seen that one before vinyl seats. It's got the same diesel engine as my caro pickup. He did well picking it up for £25! I'm now off to pick mine up from the local garage, hopefully it's all sorted.

[Richieg]

The enquiry is complete

 

The vehicle details for M681 LYP are:

 

Date of Liability 01 09 2011

Date of First Registration 01 08 1994

Year of Manufacture 1994

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1905CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Heavy Oil

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status SORN Not Due

Vehicle Colour BLUE

Vehicle Type Approval

 

Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle

6 Months Rate £112.75

12 Months Rate £205.00

 

 

Please be aware that if the vehicle has recently been relicensed or a SORN declared, these details may not yet be updated on the vehicle record.

 

If you think that the details on the vehicle record are incorrect please write to:

 

VCS

DVLA

Swansea

SA99 1BA

 

Including the incorrect V5C Registration Certificate for amendment

 

Looks like it is alive somwhere as it is on SORN ,where was it seen ?

Does anyone know?

cheers

Richie

[Guest]

Richie have you tried contacting geordiedave66 direct?

[Richieg]

Hi Benno,

No i haven't Mate,why is that?,to find out if this Caro is his do you mean?

cheers

Richie

[ProgRocker]

The Caro is getting me all hot and bothered. Really nice example. Are they the original FSO wheel trims?

 

It's one of those cars that I would probably still unofficially keep referring to as a Polonez. I do the same with the '95-'02 Vectras by calling them Cavaliers.

[Richieg]

Hi Prog,

Yes they are original wheel trims Mate

I call them Polonez too although i do find myself refering to them as Caro when talking about my Poly to anyone that knows a little about them.

 

cheers

Richie

Ps it is a lovely example isn't it?,i can't remember the last time i have seen a caro actually . . hmmm

[Guest]

I got my pickup back from the garage so thought I would post some more photos up in case anyone wanted to see them.

 

fso 001 by benno79, on Flickr

 

fso 002 by benno79, on Flickr

 

fso 003 by benno79, on Flickr

 

 

fso 005 by benno79, on Flickr

 

Could do with a good clean once it stops raining

[RedSparrow]

Blimey Benno that almost looks new!

[Guest]

thanks, the only bad bits are the plastic strips along the doors which you can see bulging a little in the photos. They are hiding some rust!

[eddyramrod]

Waddya mean, "in case"??????? Damn right we want to see them! Thanks for posting, lovely to see one up and running.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

That's great, looks amazingly tidy. Is it Peugeot XUD powered?

 

FSO Caro pick-up by zenithfivenine, on Flickr

 

An FSO pickup, yesterday.

[Guest]

Yeah it's got the 1.9 Psa xud unit in it driving the rear wheels

[trigger]

thanks for post

 

This is getting silly.

[M'coli]

I kept meaning to look these out and post them up - this is just off the road to Gairloch in the Highlands:

[Richieg]

Someone needs to save it!!!

This is such a rare car now!!!

cheers

Richie

[ProgRocker]

Awww poor thing!

 

Is that a big bore exhaust? Or just some tailpipe trim.