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hey guys, just showing off the panda similarities of this Yugo 45 thats in our local scrap yard.

have a look at these pictures.. it takes the 903cc engine and loads of other fiat parts.. see if you can spot them all!







been in derby its whole life!






Genuine miles.. the service book and previous MOT had just 130 miles difference!


bet these switches would fit a panda.. i will deffo get them when it comes out the "quarantine" section

















i almost cried when i stuck my hands under the rear of the sills and it all just crumbled to dust.
i so would have bought this if it was.. more solid underneath.

what an awesome little car.. so sad it never had a chance to be driven to its "worn out" mileage. mind you, i bet that 903 is still good for another 230000 miles!
 
Dragon Man said:
hey guys, just showing off the panda similarities of this Yugo 45 thats in our local scrap yard.

have a look at these pictures.. it takes the 903cc engine and loads of other fiat parts.. see if you can spot them all!







been in derby its whole life!






Genuine miles.. the service book and previous MOT had just 130 miles difference!


bet these switches would fit a panda.. i will deffo get them when it comes out the "quarantine" section

















i almost cried when i stuck my hands under the rear of the sills and it all just crumbled to dust.
i so would have bought this if it was.. more solid underneath.

what an awesome little car.. so sad it never had a chance to be driven to its "worn out" mileage. mind you, i bet that 903 is still good for another 230000 miles!
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Yes, it's a rejigged Fiat 127 - the tooling was sold to Yugo (or Zastava or whatever you want to call them) - the 128 was sold to them too, and a very gawky hatch grafted on to that one! They weren't bad cars and drove well - then again they had a cracking start with the 127!! Sadly they've nearly all gone now, mainly due to their mega bargain basement status when they were new - they were really cheap & bought by really cheap people who generally trashed them - no 1980's stereotyping you understand.....

There will be lots of 127 bits underneath. The light/hazard etc switches will almost certainly fit the early mk2 127's (I have one of those, so don't throw them away if you get them & don't have a use for them). The 903cc will be the same as the 127/Panda/Uno Formula one - bit of a shame to scrap it, but I don't suppose anyone wants 903's.
 
Palio said:
Yes, it's a rejigged Fiat 127 - the tooling was sold to Yugo (or Zastava or whatever you want to call them) - the 128 was sold to them too, and a very gawky hatch grafted on to that one! They weren't bad cars and drove well - then again they had a cracking start with the 127!! Sadly they've nearly all gone now, mainly due to their mega bargain basement status when they were new - they were really cheap & bought by really cheap people who generally trashed them - no 1980's stereotyping you understand.....

There will be lots of 127 bits underneath. The light/hazard etc switches will almost certainly fit the early mk2 127's (I have one of those, so don't throw them away if you get them & don't have a use for them). The 903cc will be the same as the 127/Panda/Uno Formula one - bit of a shame to scrap it, but I don't suppose anyone wants 903's.
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Yes, I remember us looking at the Yugo stand at the NEC and trying to work out what bits were taken directly from the Fiats they were based on. There was one of the 128 ones there wasn't there? Seems like a long time ago for some reason, only a couple of months really!
 
panda1408 said:
Yes, I remember us looking at the Yugo stand at the NEC and trying to work out what bits were taken directly from the Fiats they were based on. There was one of the 128 ones there wasn't there? Seems like a long time ago for some reason, only a couple of months really!
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Yes there was a 128 based one - it was obviously a 128 if you look from the front doors forward.

Back at the NEC end of March for the Restoration Show. (y) It does seem longer than November, but then January's always a long month for me!!
 
Palio said:
Yes there was a 128 based one - it was obviously a 128 if you look from the front doors forward.

Back at the NEC end of March for the Restoration Show. (y) It does seem longer than November, but then January's always a long month for me!!
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All coming back to me now:p Yes, looking forward to March, I have a good candidate for an in progress restoration car if you want one ;)
 
kolza said:
They are called Zastava 1100
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Not in the UK. We had the Yugo 45/55/65 but they were badged Zastava at various points - hence whatever you want to call them. The last were Yugo Tempo's.

The 128 based cars were Yugo/Zastava 311/511/513 over here. (y)

I always fancied a Yugo Sana (Zastava Florida elsewhere), as it was based on the Fiat Strada (or Ritmo if you're going continental).
 
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Yugo was a inhouse fiat x1/44 prototipo, basically a fiat 144 for yougoslavian factory in Kragujevac. Created in about the same time as other "export" prototype, the x1/37 {fiat 137} aka FSO Polonez :) There are still some yugos in Poland but most of them are late facelifted{ ugly spoilers bumpers, grille etc} 1.1 or 1.3 mpi's.My friend is a fan of early yugo, like this one, but he is preparing 1.5 strada engine for it, and maby a set of fake "fiat144" badges to make some confusion and troll fiatnuts like me on the youngtimer meetings:D

 
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I remember seeing a couple of Yugo Sanas in the early 90s. At the time i prided myself on knowing all the car names so it was very exciting to see something new. According to How Many Left there is just 1 Sana left on the road in Britain.
 
Giacosa said:
I remember seeing a couple of Yugo Sanas in the early 90s. At the time i prided myself on knowing all the car names so it was very exciting to see something new. According to How Many Left there is just 1 Sana left on the road in Britain.
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You can see why they aren't looked after, but even so, 1 left is just insana.......

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I worked as a mechanic at a Yugo Main Dealer in the late 80's.
I've always loved Fiats, but there was something lacking on these models.
From memory, we sold the 45, the 1100 and the Sana (Tipo based I think - I was told it was the "runner up" in the design for the Tipo and so Zastava used that)
To drive they were all truly shocking and the amount of warranty work we had to do certainly kept the dealership in cash.
Spares were very difficult to obtain, and quality was poor.All models used to eat clutch cables. The 45 models always seemed to have oil leaks. The Sana had a particularly stain attracting light beige Dralon type of cloth on the seats, which was a pain. I'm sure we had many more problems.
The gaffer gave up and got a SEAT dealership instead right at the point when VW took over, so quality went up.
We tried to get somebody to buy our stock of spares which was quite extensive, but nobody wanted it so it was boxed up and put in the roofspace!!
The garage has long gone and been turned into flats, so somewhere there's a pile of unobtainable spares in a landfill.
 
because the rot is pretty bad on it.. if i had it i would need new sills and also remake the whole rear section of the sills.. just before the rear wheel.

i dont think the floor pan of the car is in bad condition to be fair. at the end of the day water has not got under there. the running gear also looked pretty fair to be honest. all rubber bushes seemed nice, with not seeing much road use.

i think if someone could be bothered to weld all the bad parts up it would be a fine car.

i kinda wish i had £350 to go and buy the thing.

i'd find room for it heh..
 
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