I read that in Automotive News. I hope FIAT treats customers in the US better than their last go around, because they had a gawd-awful reputation the last time they were selling vehicles in the US market.

And, did'ja know that the lovely Yugo was a rebadged FIAT 124? FIAT: Fix, It Again Tony!

 

i loved the yougo.
every 17,000 miles we would have to rebuild the engines.
a nickle was the perfect spacer to put in the pin hole in the piston for pressing in the wrist pins to get proper pin placement.
we used to do 4-5 a day, at $200 per engine. and parts only cost us around $50.

 

Ouch....30 out of 48 right. 62% Does being only 35 give me a grading curve? lol. Fun trivia test. Thanks!

 

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Yugo's were so awful, they caught fire while parked on dealers new car lots....with the engines off. A terd of a car, almost as bad as the East German Wartburg.

Around 1960, my dad took a Wartburg in trade on a used Olds, ended up junking it. It was only 2 years old, and had about 2K on the clock. It would not start...even with ether or pushing/towing the pile.

There were no parts available cuz Wartburg had pulled oughtta the US market after only selling a few thousand in the late 1950's.

 

Yeah, this old guy is showing his age too. I either owned, drove or coveted most of the vehicles show. JMO, but if you are putting together a quiz the represented vehicles should be stock.

 

Lotsa luck finding even a representative of an stocker in today's world. So much has been swapped around on these old rolling piles of misery, who could tell what was correct and what was not?

Now...if you took these same cars, asked peeps to list what parts weren't original...then you would have a quiz that...very few people would get a high score on.

 

I do believe I could still do very well.

You would have to go to the "brand" clubs to find them but the stock as originals are out there. When I was playing with, judging "birds", anything other than "stock" was just a car.

 

Take away all the vehicles brand names and body styles, ask peeps to type in what each one is. Now how high do you think peeps would score?

This quiz is a piece a cake, because there are four cars with four names/styles listed. All peeps have to do on most...is look for a nameplate or an emblem.

 

I tried one of those tests with just a small pic of the chrome, a body curve or of an outside mirror. Yup......I did horrible! How was I to know what was on a Hupmobile or an Imp??
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Some people might have to go to brand car clubs to find them, but some people who have been in the old car hobby for 56 years, who have owned 337 vehicles, prolly will not.

It'll be a cold day in he!! when I cannot ID something, including foreign piles. And...I won't hafta look at car club pics to do this. I have over 3,000 books on auto history in this menagerie, and have read all of them.

 

I was also born in '53, but got 48/48 - 100%

The ****** was the only one I didnt know, but the Henry J aced it for me.

So many dead brands:

******
Kaiser
Nash (As my father used to say, "Nash today, trash tomorrow")
Hudson
Packard
Studebaker
Edsel
DeSoto
Plymouth
Oldsmobile
Pontiac

 

The difference this time is that the 500 is a "boutique" product that, if marketed more like the Mini, may be a modest success. Fiat, Renault, Simca, Opel and other postwar European imports were cheap cars that could not compete with VW. Today, a Renault is actually very successful in the American market, badged as the Nissan Versa.

I put myself through school wrenching on Fiat, MG and the like. I drove a VW, but fixed the rest.

 

Bill, FIAT doesn't stand for Fix It Again, Tony.
It stands for Fix It Again Tomorrow.

 

now it does. but for the past 60 years it was fix it again tony, because tony is an italian name, and fiat is an italian car.