Just passing thru after a long absence. I well remember the Yugo and it   
   WAS closest to the worst car ever imported as my daughters husband bought   
   one.   
   But I did not expect much else as it was Russian Copy of a Fiat and they   
   made some very bad cars on their own for the common man.   
      
   tom Walker   
   >    
   >      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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