Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Are you going to do the motorway journeys in it? I think they said it was flat out at just over 80mph, with 70mph being a bit “busyâ€Â. Ideal for trundling around town though. 56mph FTMFW!
nigel bickle Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 I've tried to dissuade him.. It'll hold 60- 65 ish (up hill/ down dale) all day long -really economical too. But 70 is harsh -poor little bugger is working hard at that speed. Still -its only going to cost him pennies to get home -so lots saved for the osteopath! Tee hee
theorganist Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 That looks like a great purchase, love that interior! Must admit the few that have been on e-bay over the last few weeks have made me interested in owning one.
scooters Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 lol! K Series... I agree that this car will be a pain in the jacksay on a long motorway trip - literally - but that's not what it s bering bought for. The journeys will mostly be local journeys with 3 times weekly drives to Dalgety Bay and back (30 miles round trip) and the occasional burn down to the borders or through to Glesga...Don't forget, we don't have many motorways up here in Scotland! I think the 80mph top speed is what the 55a does - it has a 1.3 engine whereas the 45a ia a 903cc pushrod job. Speed is adequate for my purposes These days I tend not to drive over 70 unless I am on an empty motorway - experience of huge motorway mileage has taught me that there is little to be gained in time booting it on a busy motorway....Last summer I typically drove an E34 535i between Edinburgh and St Albans in between 6 and 8 hours with a half hour break. Last Summer I drove a 1973 Daf 44 (850cc) the same distance in six and a half hours - At 60-65mph you do get there at the end of the day, the only thing you really have to look ouyt for with these low powered cars is momentum in overtakig HGVs and Mad HGV drivers. Whilst the Zastava is no doubt no picnic on a busy motorway, it is more practical than a Moggy on the same. The main difference between the 45 and the Daf will be comfort - the Daf is a comfortable car with seats built to take fat dutchment....I need to try and source andpack a beaded seat cover - it will make a hell of a difference. With these small cars I tend to buy them on simplicity, cheapness of running, quirkieness and the engine and I would probably not have gone for it had it been the 1300 - there was a lovely auto Renner 5 on the bay which would have been the choice. But I am a sucker for pushrod power units and their robust simplicity as I am for air cooled 2 cyl boxers - a bit different, small, simple and when you get to where you are going, a wonderful sense of achiement. So, I'm looking forward to it!
nigel bickle Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Just sorry i cant be there. I'll be thinking of you as I munch my plastic breakfast
garethj Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Stick a K series in it............You know it's a quality car when putting a K series in would be an improvement
scooters Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 Yugo 45 1983 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr I'm sure the Advertising Standards Committee would have somthing to say about that! Basically a load of lies - 'top of its class' ....yeah ...right.... mind you I simply have to get hold of a pair of'TURBOVANE' wind deflectors - they look like a Kwality accessory indeed and will add that vital indivisduality to the car despite thje fact that dealers in the 80's obviously used the turbovane as a hook.....wow.....the awesumnness of this car is such that I am getting a stiffy thinking about it....although my wife is pleased she is getting a nice shiny only 10 year old Saab I myself, being a genuine 100% Shitter am far more excited about the Yugo.....that interior is the stuff of legend!!! oh goodygoodygoodygoody
CortinaDave Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Thats bloody fantastic! Theres a Yugo 45 knocking around Dundee which i see occasionally so now I know there will be at least two of the buggers up here. I'd love a shot of this, just to experience the full misery for myself.
scooters Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 Thats bloody fantastic! Theres a Yugo 45 knocking around Dundee which i see occasionally so now I know there will be at least two of the buggers up here. I'd love a shot of this, just to experience the full misery for myself. we should meet for some scran on the road!
scooters Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 scooters you provide some of the best shite write ups ever. I doff my hat to you! Yugo looks a fine beast, maybe needs a beaded seat cover for the long journey home mind! Seven of your Eeeeenglish pounds and there is a 'natural' beaded seat cover on the way to the Ponderosa as we speak! I'll pack it as hand luggage to save my arse (or erse as we say in Edinburgh)
hairnet Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 put it in the back of one of the volvos respec for even thinking about driving it back to ecosse
eddyramrod Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 In the summer of 87 I had a girlfriend who had one of these, and I got to drive it a couple of times. I thought it was a hoot! Ten million bravery points though if you're going to drive it from Dahn Sarf to Bonnie Scotland! If nothing breaks, it'll be a tale you can tell your grandchildren... in fact, even if something does break...! Best of luck!
scooters Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 hmmm...not sure yet....depends if I decide to see anyone when I am down there. I might stay with my sister who lives in Little Whingeing, Surrey (Chiddingfold) on Thursday night but I need to be back in Reekie by Friday pm so will probably bhead north. I might see if I can catch up with some clients on the way home - might get them to pay my invoices a bit more quickly out of sympathy! I may go back the A1 and have a cup of tea or lunch with Mr Glover at Peterborough, he's back at PC HQ these days. Or I might bang up the M6 to Carlisle and then take the A7. If I end up going up the A1 I really fancy taking it up the A68 from Newcastle - Carter Bar would be a hoot and a fine photo opportunity at the border crossing! anyway, a tartan thermos, some cheese sandwiches and a Blue Riband bikie - the food of champions (and Churchill's favorite bikkie) will sustain me on this epic trip....had Captain Scott taken such rations to Antartica it is my belief that he would not only have made it home but beat those unsporting Norges in the process! by god sir!
M'coli Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 If you take the A1 give us a shout as you pass Yorkshire, I'm about 2 miles from Wetherby services, I'll come and wave at you from the bridge!
TimothyClaypole Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Blue Ribands? Capitalist biscuits... The workers should be enjoying Morrison's Garland Wafers.
M'coli Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Tunnock's Caramel Wafers! Proper oldtime workers would have had McFarlane Lang's chocolate Digestives.
scooters Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 doh! you see' I have a lot to learn about socialism....Blue Riband indeed! of course it is a capitalist biscuit named after a trophy that enourages one plurocrat to comptet with another in the construction of decadent luxury passenger liners! And Churchill! that arch imperialist! I dug out some books and found this extract from: "A History of Industrial Ambient Bakery Products and their Place in Society", Albert Cnut, Govan, 2009Obviosly the bisuiot of the worker is the Huntly and Palmer Garibaldi....a favourtite of Engles and Marx when they lived in London and Stalin was a fan according to an eye witness report when he stayed in London in 1907 when attending the 5th Party Congress.... "Comrade Trubshaw! I swear on the wax on my Georgian moustach that these fish and chips are excellent. No wonder the British capitalists have been able to oppress their workers, with the bounty of the ocean and the potato field and the deep fat fryer you sons of Albion have no need or desire for revolution! What moren does a man want in a day to know that he has crushed his enemies, purged the state and increased his iron grip on power and can feast on such ambrosia followed by a nice cuppa and a Garabaldi bikkie...."ohh - now then Mr Jughashvili...you ain't half a card...you'll be givin' a lass a bad name with sauce like that...now dear..would you like a pickled onion with that"......Stalin: "oh yes please Mrs T!"....Extract from "The Fish I have Fried: A London Chippy Memoire 1888-1938" by Ethel Trubshaw, London 1939It is hardly surprising that these socliaists and the arch bolsheviik found the Garabaldi biscuit politically acceptable as Giuseppi Garabaldi, the great Italian Freedom Fighter and figurehead of the reunification of Italy was a proto-socialist himself. Perhaps fictional extreme copper DCI Gene Hunt's love of the Garabaldi Biscuit is inspired by it's status with heros of the worker... or it could just be the delicious but simple combination of crispy pastry lovlieness encasing a juicy but modest raisin filling and glazed with melted sugar and baked golden that did it for him...... we will never know but the first had account of Trubshaw certainly indicates that Stalin had thought at length about the political theory behind and provoked by food and it is well documented that during his stay in London he enjoyed the bitter ale and also found the fish and chips delicious, sometimes dining on several portions a night, to mention the Garabaldi in the same sentence as fish and chips and sweet tea, as a natrualised Ruissian tea would be hs drink of choice, could point to an equal love for the Garabaldi but could also just be because they were on offer at the ""Whitechaple Fryer" on that particualr night. Years later at Yalta, according to Tedder, towards the end of the war Stalin, having drunk several bottles of red wine with Churchill (a man he despised but respected) said to Churchill: Stalin: "You English...you grind the world under your colonial jungle boot and the irony is that your worker's love you for it! I tell you Winston Spencorovitch it is because of your fish and your chips and your garabaldi biscuits! They think they have plenty with full bellies of delicious fried cod and haddock! Why, with such food I could have driven the fascists into the Atlantic...you English have no idea of the resource you have!...Winston.....stop snoring....wake up you capitalist pig! It is only 4.00am you decandent bourgeoise imperialist!" Churchill: "ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz..no Lady Astor....the other side of the hairbrush....that's it.....ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz wassat???? oh I do beg your pardon old fruit....what were you saying about Berlin again?" from "Giving Jerry What's For and other Memoirs" by Chief Air Marshall Arthur, 1st Baron Tedder, London 1955 So, you can see that on two occassions the Gen Sec was heard to comment on the importance of the Garabaldi Biscuit in the affections of the British Worker and the existenxce of it could be why Great Britain escaped from domestic extremisim in the early 20th C. There you have it....I might publish this on the Uncyclopedia as utter bollocks!
Skizzer Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Of course, that's the same Albert Cnut ("Red Albie") who was famously arrested and briefly imprisoned after the Govan Biscuit Riots of October 1979, when left wing agitators set fire to a container load of McVitie's allegedly 'pro-establishment' biscuits at a Roadline depot. You'll doubtless recall their inflammatory chants and placards: "Burn the Royal Scot", "Soak the Rich Tea", "Sex and Drugs and Mini-Rolls" etc etc. Some of the protesters were flying pickets from a demarcation dispute at Talbot's Linwood plant, on strike over management's attempts to end the extra time traditionally allowed at tea breaks for nibbling the chocolate from round the edge of Jacob's Clubs (an ironically decadent snack, revered as it was by a secretive elitist clique noted for their sinister chant, If You Like A Lot of Chocolate On Your Biscuit Join Our Club). The much-loved Royal Scot biscuit brand was subsequently and controversially discontinued, though some are believed to have escaped to France and may one day return to reclaim the tea-time throne. Lovin the Zastava by the way. Shocked to see they only stopped making them in 2008 Serbia mourned - here's a tribute: If you need an overnight perch darn sarf and your sister's house is full of builders, we'd be delighted to host you at Skizzers East. I'm half tempted to drive up north with you for the entertainment value, but I'll probably/hopefully be on a project.
scooters Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 Skizz- you are more than welcomwe to co pilot me in the Yugo! If you get a pass, call me!
messerschmitt owner Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 surely, the biscuit of the trodden-down and trodden-on working class is a Gray & Dunn Blue Riband! Scooters is correct - the biscuit may be blue but the manufacturer is Gray & Dunn! Nope, I was wrong - it's a capitalist biscuit! Blue Riband (biscuits)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blue Riband is a chocolate bar produced by Nestlé. The bar was launched in 1936/1937 (Nestle is unsure which year) as a real milk chocolate wafer- a crisp wafer biscuit covered in real milk chocolate. It was re-launched in December2004. "The tastiest thing around" - Sir Winston Churchill
nigel bickle Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Bollocks to Biscuits. You're going to need Kendal Mint cake.
CreepingJesus Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 There'll be no problem with the Yugoslavian People's Glorious Transport coming to Fife: the longest serving Communist MP in Britain, represented West Fife (Wilie Gallagher 1935-50), within which ward is of course, Gagarin Way!Ãâ€Ã»Ñ Ã²ÃµÃ»Ã¸ÃºÃ¾Ã»ÃµÃ¿Ã½Ã¾Ã¹ рõòþûюцøø úþûõÑÂð!
scooters Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 There'll be no problem with the Yugoslavian People's Glorious Transport coming to Fife: the longest serving Communist MP in Britain, represented West Fife (Wilie Gallagher 1935-50), within which ward is of course, Gagarin Way!Ãâ€Ã»Ñ Ã²ÃµÃ»Ã¸ÃºÃ¾Ã»ÃµÃ¿Ã½Ã¾Ã¹ рõòþûюцøø úþûõÑÂð! and here was me thinking that they were honouring "Wee Shug" Gagarin, the famous Raith Rovers Centre Forward of the 1930s!
CreepingJesus Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 There'll be no problem with the Yugoslavian People's Glorious Transport coming to Fife: the longest serving Communist MP in Britain, represented West Fife (Wilie Gallagher 1935-50), within which ward is of course, Gagarin Way!Ãâ€Ã»Ñ Ã²ÃµÃ»Ã¸ÃºÃ¾Ã»ÃµÃ¿Ã½Ã¾Ã¹ рõòþûюцøø úþûõÑÂð! and here was me thinking that they were honouring "Wee Shug" Gagarin, the famous Raith Rovers Centre Forward of the 1930s! Of course! His favourite tactic was to run around the left wing like a maddy, shouting 'man in space'. How could I have forgotted?
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