Zastava Yugo T-Jet sleeper project

I drove a 1986 Yugo 55 GLS back in the nineties, even took it on a vacation trip to Italy around 1990.
Yugo's were sold in Italy as Innocenti Koral back then!
I saw a lot of great equipped Yugo GV and GVX models in the USA, during several trips early nineties.
"WE GO IN A YUGO" was the American slogan...!!
It was the cheapest car in the States, around 3000 US Dollars for a new car, they tried to make it the new Beetle, but didn't succeed, and now, all Yugo's are gone...
There was a cabrio version as well, but only a handful were ever made.

What wheels are you thinking of putting on it, when it's done...? These have just appeared on eBay....

homeward said:

What wheels are you thinking of putting on it, when it's done...? These have just appeared on eBay....

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Cheers for that. I am going to think about bidding on these. They are the right dimensions for me. I was looking at some Saab 600 wheels which are the same size and a very period design. Found a picture of the Yugo alloys fitted to one of their models:

ah this thing is gonna be so amusing when done, at least when people get overtaken by a fast panda they at least know what it is that just did them - i suspect most non-car type people just won't even know what it is. Them wheels really suit it

OMG, a Yugo T-Jet...this gonna be fun

Yugo GVX:
http://www.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://yugoworld.tripod.com/1988yugogvx1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://yugoworld.tripod.com/yugo_america_brochures_1988gvx.htm&h=636&w=824&sz=96&tbnid=zcRsZ11ptWpIoM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=118&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dyugo%2Bgvx%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=yugo+gvx&usg=__rDO8g_J76VQ-5KxIhxq54SidveM=&docid=ed_Qav38JiNzaM&sa=X&ei=WmHlUevEBIrOswaxj4HQDw&ved=0CDUQ9QEwAg&dur=3421




Cabrio:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/ebay-find-of-the-day-yugo-cabrio/

Looks like those wheels aren't going to come my way without a fight.

last second bids FTW! Just stop bidding or they will get really expensive.

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Went to bid on wheels. 40 sec late. How did that happen, I only went for a wee?

I got a second chance offer a couple of mins ago. I can't help but be suspicious. The sale almost INSTANTLY fell through? I found the bidding behaviour unusually aggressive and only I and the winner ever bid. Also, who bids £79 at the beginning of a 99p start auction? Someone who hopes someone who is bidding in round numbers will bid £80, presumably?

lewey said:

I got a second chance offer a couple of mins ago. I can't help but be suspicious. The sale almost INSTANTLY fell through? I found the bidding behaviour unusually aggressive and only I and the winner ever bid. Also, who bids £79 at the beginning of a 99p start auction? Someone who hopes someone who is bidding in round numbers will bid £80, presumably?

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Sounds very sus like you say.

The wheels are back...!

lewey said:

I got a second chance offer a couple of mins ago. I can't help but be suspicious. The sale almost INSTANTLY fell through? I found the bidding behaviour unusually aggressive and only I and the winner ever bid. Also, who bids £79 at the beginning of a 99p start auction? Someone who hopes someone who is bidding in round numbers will bid £80, presumably?

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Looking at the bidding history the other bidder has a feedback score of 19 just like one of the people who has bought 2-3 other Radom items from this seller in the last month but not been used since 2008 prior to that.... seems he may have be using a second account to bid you up? And improve his 84% feed back score Especially as this other account seems to have appeared in his feed back after a few very poor feedback ratings

The same thing happened to me with a set of wheels being sold by forum members who were father and son and bidding on their own items to bump the price up

This project is kinda cool will be watching it closely

hence last minute bids ftw

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hence last minute bids ftw

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Does that actually help if they have already bid an £80 bid, which they probably have? It is the same shill bidder as before. It might help to stop the price going into orbit, but effectively the shill bidding removes the control.

It is frustrating that these wheels are being sold by someone who is obviously untrustworthy. You only have to look at the feedback to see the reaction to problems. It is difficult to know what to do. If he is willing to shill bid, what other problems might he have in store for me with the wheels themselves? I suspect these wheels are pretty hard to get hold of, so the opportunity might not come up for a while or within a timeframe that is useful for the project. I would like to not buy them on principal, but I will miss out if I do that. I will probably pay for them to be refurbished, so the £80 or whatever is actually only a part of the cost.

I am going to try to talk with the Yugo Club parts guy to see what he can tell me about the wheels, their rarity and who might have alternatives for me.

if you can get your bid in at the very last moment then yeah its doesn't have time to do the sorting through max bids before auction ends. I have lost things on ebay way below my maximum bid due to people doing last second bids and i have won things in the lat few seconds when there is loads of people bidding. The faster your connection the later you can bid, on my computer i can leave it right down til 2 seconds before pressing confirm bid and it still bid intime, but you can get programs that do it for you so i have been told.

Its not fool proof by any stretch but in general there is less time for bids so it will go cheaper, just set an alarm on your phone so you don't forget and leave it alone til the last moments.

Thanks for your help. I am completely familiar with the concept of sniper bidding. Since they know I bid £80 last time, they will have likely simply bid £79, just like they did last time. The difference this time is they won't bother outbidding me as they know I won't pay more. Assuming no-one else is interested in buying them, it will make little difference whether I bid now or right at the end, the price will be the same.

They should just put a buy it now price on them. The whole thing really cheeses me off.

yeah there is alot of idiots out there make no mistake... But if no-one else bids and you don't bid til the last second it won't get upto £80, i promise.

blu73 said:

yeah there is alot of idiots out there make no mistake... But if no-one else bids and you don't bid til the last second it won't get upto £80, i promise.

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But that's the point, someone else will bid, and it'll be the seller's shill bidder, who will bid £79 (doesn't matter when) knowing lewey will bid £80. So he will win them, but not at bargain basement prices unless the shill account is reported to ebay and deactivated.