American Goes to His FIRST European Car Show!!! 

Damn, this is generally a polish car meet xD

1:58- sticker on FIAT 126p 'J*bać biedę' translate to 'F*ck poverty' XD

When you live in a medieval Italian city, small cars like those Fiats make sense

I thought you came to Poland, seeing all those cars and hearing everyone including DJ speaking polish in the background :)

Only the Cybertruck could make an FSO Polonez Caro look well built.

06:52 see the comic mole on the back window? That's Krteček, the "Little Mole" from then Czechoslovakia. Even though he was "born" behind the iron curtain in 1957, he was broadcasted in the west and is a dear childhood memory. Lovely to see him on a car in the US.

The Cybertruck looks like something a villain would drive in an episode of Knight Rider. When people in the 1950s imagined cars of the future, they envisioned things like this. It took a fool like Musk to actually build this monstrosity, which has no real use other than showing off how one can afford to throw away money.

As an Italian this gave me the idea of ​​a gathering of Polish car enthusiasts :) Keep in mind that the vast majority of Fiats are due to the presence of the Polish branch and the models are vaguely different from those produced in Italy or Brazil (such as Mexican Fords ), in Italy the 126 and 127 stopped producing them at least 10 years earlier, leaving production to the Polish branch and moving towards new models.

You don't drive Polski Fiat.... You wear it and you're dead, if you hit a mosquito

Growing up in England in the 70s, my mum had a Fiat 126. It was big enough to get us 3 kids in the back and powerful enough to get us to the shops and back... until we got to the hill near our house, at which point my brother and sister would have to get out and push it. 🙂

Fiat 126 galore! The fiat 127 is a legend here in Italy, most wanted from the work class in the 70's.

As a European I absolutely appreciate your genuine and honest amazement at all the European stuff you curiously review time to time. You're great, bro, love your channel.

The 126 was everywhere when I was growing up in the UK in the 70s and 80s. I hope you get to go to more shows like this and see some classic UK and French cars.

From hearing so much polish and seeing all of those cars i thought for awhile you came here to Poland to visit us 😅

Eastern-Europe more precisely. 🙂

UAZ no waaaay.. I did my military driving licence in 🇨🇿 army 20 years ago in it.. in woods😂😂😂and our brothers with polish fiats as we called them, lovely to see

That truck at 12:00 had Polish National Forest sticker on it so I guess it was an utility truck.

These small Polski Fiats look small but can actually transport a whole 3 generation family, I've seen them do it behind the iron curtain.

Oh, just in case you missed it: At least one of those tiny Fiats hat a tow hook to pull a trailer...😉

The Cybertruck was there just in case someone would've brought a 90's Fiat Multipla and needed it to not be the ugliest thing at the show.

Cybertruck has a few safety issues that concern me. lack of crumple zones and extra strong glass feels a bit bad if you're in an accident.

FIAT was pretty big in rally in the 60s and 70s.

My dad had 1995 green Fiat 126p. That last car FSO Polonez was produced in factory in Warsaw, Poland from 1978 to 2002. That one here is from the 90's. It was based on the Polski Fiat 125p platform with a new design prepared with the help of Italians. The car's name comes from the Polish dance, the polonaise.

About the Fiat Cinquecento, there was also a Sporting version with a 1108cc 4 cilinder with a massive 54 horsepower. And a tuner called Novitec made a turbo version with around 110 horsepower, wich is very acceptable and fun in such a small shoebox.

Luckily, we don't get the Cybertruck in Europe. It can't be approved over here.

I can easily imagine Ian with a ear to ear smile and looking like a kid in a candy shop.

This was not a European car show, it was a Eastern European car show. That was Eastern Europe back in the 90's... Still producing really old car models from the 70's that for example Fiat haven't sold in western europe for 10 - 20 years. There was a big difference between Eastern and Western Europe, still is in some countries but was even more in the early 90's after the Berlin wall was demolished. When we drove from Sweden to Italy for holiday in the early 90's and we saw all the old cars from East Europe we was amazed over the old cars they drove, later learned that they could be almost new but from an other era that we didn't seen for decades in Sweden.

Skoda 120L. Father owned sky blue one. Memories.

What I love about car shows is that you can know nothing about the cars or Marquees on show and the owners are always ready to chat, I think its the old common interest thing. They made the Cyber Truck look even more ridiculous!

There's a reason why Fiat has won 9 European car of the year awards.

A large part of Polish history ;)

I thought that Tesla truck was a thing some guys in a metal-bashing workshop had stuck on an old chasiss for a laugh.

That little girl seems to be Skoda fan too lol. 😅

14.40 that Tesla thing is not only the ugliest car I have ever seen, it is the ugliest THING I have ever seen.

"Górale" summit in USA. Polonez was manufactured in factory FSO in Warsaw, Poland. And it was last fully polish car.

10:23 I had in my work the 'van' version of that Cinquecento. You know, without rear seats and with metal panels instead of rear windows. It was a 0.9 liter but it was funny as hell Edit: 15:26 In Spain our version of that car (SEAT 127) was hugely popular. There have been a few in my family over the years. I have some good memories of that car on the curvy roads in Sierra de Cadiz

When my dad was young he put a 650 engine from a 126p in his fiat 500. He had it for like a week before he did a wheelie while showing off and wrapped it around a lamppost. Even tho he already put a couple of pavement tiles in his trunk to keep the wheels on the ground. RIP that 500 🙏

17:04 late 80s 🤣that one is the Plus model which like the last variation that was like a facelift made by Daewoo for FSO and that model the Caro Plus (Hatchback), Atu Plus (Sedan) and Kombi (Wagon) ran from from 97 till 2002 with a Truck version (something like a Ute) that finished the Polonez production in 2003. The 'preface lifts' of them the as some people call them the Minuses 😅Caro, Truck and Cargo (Van/Ambulance) from from 91 till 97 and the Atu (sedan was introduced in 96) The original Polonez has ran since 1978 till 1991 and the original was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro (living automotive legend, google the cars he designed you'll be surprised) oh btw all the fiats in the video except the 127 were Polish (may look similar but are very different from Italian models especially the 125p that has only the chassis from the Italian 125, different engine and interior adapted from way older fiat models. Plus the Cinquecento was mean to be the replacement for the 126p but whilst the 126p ran till the year 2000 the Cinquecento production ran from 91 till 98 so the car it was meant to replace ran for 2 years lodger 😂

What's up with the blue giant!!! He had to be in every shot........Amazing show, I thought you had traveled to Eastern Europe!!! :-)

Warsawa probably is a refurbished Soviet GAZ M21 Pobeda that is originally prewar Opel Captain

I literally drove the 126p as a child. It was called the "Maluch" :D

The 125 sport with the twin OHC motor was a real street sleeper

That Fiat 127 "martini" remembered my child days when my mum got a Seat 127, good days...

12:30 in the USSR, from the factory, it was a 4-cylinder gasoline engine with a capacity of 75 hp, as simple as possible and designed to keep moving after several bullet hits. in the military version, this is a clearance of 300mm, in the civilian "farmer" 220. in Europe, Peugeot diesel engines were installed in them as one of the options. 4-speed manual in one unit with a transfer box, the front axle is pluggable. This thing is still being produced, with a modern 135hp gasoline engine and a 5-speed gearbox.

The Martini Fiat 127 was my first car it cost me the wopping amount of 250 dollars 😂

When i saw POLONEZ CARO i almost choked on my food

The 127 Martini looks like an Abarth. It's got the scorpion on the front grill.

My uncle had an IZH bike like that when I was growing up. It's the first bike I ever rode. Very 50s technology

If money lost its value completely tomorrow i would never change the 127 for the Cybertruck...never!

An eastern European car meet. Lots of ”behind the iron curtain” cars there.

I owned a FIAT 127 back in the late 1970's. Even though it only had a 4 cylinder 903cc engine mine would happily cruise at 90mph. I once had 7 people in mine, not doing over 90mph, it was just a short local journey

Rear-engined Škodas were sold in Canada from 1984 until 1989. The 120, 130, and 135 GLi sedans were available, as well as the 130 Rapid coupé. My Dad test-drove a 1986 120 GLS.

5:50 LOL I've been born and raised in Mrągowo, north-east part of Poland. This town hosts "Piknik Country & Folk" festival every year since 1983, biggest country festival in POLAND

Mój tato posiadał kiedyś Warszawę w białym kolorze z czerwonym wnętrzem. Te auta miały duszę po mimo tego że produkowane z kiepskich materiałów. Takie były czasy gdy auto było dobrem luksusowym ale one luksusowe nie były... tak poza tematem Warszawa produkowana była na licencji od Rosjan, tu link do wiki; pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Warszawa, a tu oryginał gaz m20 pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ-M20_Pobieda

The Škoda 120 has the sticker of 1. Záhorácky retro club on the front hood, which is very well known for me 😉 Greetings from Slovakia!

The small cars are the Polish version of the FIAT 126 that was the son of the oldest FIAT 500. The Martini livery car is the glorious Fiat 127.

Maluch! in a thumbnail, i had to watch it. me and and my seven friends squeezed into one coming back from a night out, you would see a family of 5 driving like 500km for holidays in one of these with a roof rack.

The Polonez hatchback is actually a very very very facelifted Fiat 125p (the limousine from the 60s you mentioned earlier), which itself came out as a Fiat 125 in Italy in 1967. My dad had a 1968 125S, which was of Italian production and "S" meant 5-Speed and 100bhp. First car I can remember. Good times ;)

15:33 Yugo’s dad…Yugo is Yugoslavian version of 127.127 have 903 cc engine,45hp,very very popular in whole EU by that time

I remain convinced that the Citroën 2CV remains the car that will make you smile the most if you had it, while driving it.

That FIAT 127 with the Martini Livery was also available as a delivery 'truck': they basically cut it behind the front doors and put a cube at the back for storage and called it 'Fiorino'. My dad had two generation of them for his one man buisness. It even was available as a pick up truck version with an open bed.

Fiat 126p was my first car, I bought it while 18yo in year 2006 and it costed me 350PLN (108USD)

Here in Italy you can still find a lot of the 126 and Cinquecento (500), later 600, especially in rural areas!!🇮🇹

My parents used to drive me (52) around in small Fiat cars. They had an 850, 126 and 127. Later we had a Lada, a Russian copy of the Fiat 128. For them these were the more affordable cars at the time. And with a bit of trial and error, this works quite well with a family. At this show I mainly see a lot of Fiats and cars from the former Washau Pact. But so much nice stuff also came from Western Europe; the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Still a lot for you to discover!

UAZ once came to Finland as a for free vehicle when Finland bought defense equipment from the Soviet Union. The story goes that first they had to install a tank hatch, because the car was never meant to drive as far as there was enough fuel in the tank and switch to another tank and drive back. So the car is equipped with two tanks.

If only i was there, i could've brought my Renaud 4l 😂

Great to see a love for all of these eastern european (and particularly Polish) cars over there in the USA!

Wow, such a great event! And such nice people! Those Fiat 127 series have a really cool design, they have been produced for so long for good reason. They were not the best cars ever made, but used really simple and accessible technology. It is great to see so many of them in such good condition. It seems to have been a Polish event (I hear a lot of Polish text in the background). Those 127s got a sort of cult status in Poland, which is really cool. The Cinquecento you see from 10:20 on is the successor of the 124. The Fiat 125p is also a Polski Fiat, made in Poland after the production of the original 124 stopped. The Russian Lada Riva (VAZ 2107) was based on this car and was produced until 2015! And the same holds for the old Skodas, they were also not very reliable but had simple maintainable tech. Except for the engine in the back, that was a very Czech thing. The Tatras from the time had a V8 in the back. When the US had the big 70s Cadillacs and Chevys, we had this awesome collection of cars.

Yeah, we just love the Fiat 126p, it's just a magnet for Polish people.

My Father had a Skoda 110L from the 70's was about 10 years old. He had it for 9 years never missed a beat.

1:59 Rafał Pacześ byłby dumny z naklejki na klapie 😂❤️

Wow, the classic Fiats, I love them! 😍 Greetings from Brazil!!

I had a Fiat 127 Sport. It was black with an orange "go faster" stripe. I loved it. It had a 1050cc engine that developed all of 70BHP, but it was super-light and its super-angry little engine didn't red-line until over 7,000 RPM. Damn it was a fun drive.

WOW! A really really great video! I wish I was there! I would have been is fits of excitement over all of these eastern European beauties! Glad to see there is a love for the Polski 126 in the US too, And the UAZ Hunter is still in production today!

The Warszawa (that's Polish for Warsaw) you saw was originally a Soviet 1948 GAZ M20 Pobieda. FSO liked the model so much that they kept improving it, and it was produced up to 1980, long after GAZ had stopped making it. This one is definitively an entierely Polish model, as the origina Soviet design had a water drop design (much like Tatraplan or the VW bug) but the purely FSO models had the end carved to give the car a regular sedan shape.

More, please! I wish this video was twice as long.

The Martini fiat, is a 127 from the first generaties. In my garage stands a 127 from the 3 generation. You have a lot to learn about italian cars, fiat, lancia and don't forget Alfa Romeo ( my absolute favorit ) there is so much history. 😁😇

Hello friend, I've been following your channel for a few days here in Brazil. I know your main focus and personal taste is comparing the differences between the US and Europe, which I also think is fantastic, mainly about cars. If you allow me a suggestion, as soon as possible see and analyze the Brazilian car market, especially classics, we have some unique versions of national and even European projects that only exist here, for example: - Fiat Marea Weekend Turbo 2.0 20V - Manual Transmission; - Renault Sport (Dacia) Sandero R.S 2.0; - Chevrolet Opala Diplomata 4.1S; - Chevrolet Omega CD 4.1; - Fiat Uno 1.6R - Fiat Tempra Turbo (Coupe) Among others, I think you will find it very interesting 😁

A bit of info: The Fiat 126 show in the video,are all the Polish version of it (126p) , Fiat sold the right to a company called FSM based on the old version. The "original" version where the same,but later on Fiat make the latest version called 126 BIS. The Bis model had a water cooled engine with 704cc and 26 HP,mounted 180° on the back,gaining a second trunk space. This engines had problem with the thermostat and i remember a popular mod was to dich it and make the cooling loop always circulating. My mom had one and had the same mod on it :) This car and similar (like the Fiat 500) are still popular here in Italy on racing hillclimb. Some of the most extreme had totally different suspension and bike engine on it . You can seem if search "fiat 500 /126 cronoscalata"

Many of these cars were manufactured in Poland. It was a Polish event.

Here in Italy lots of Fiat 126 are pumped for racing in hillclimbs or in a particular category of racing called slalom. I saw also Fiat 126 racing in autocross. Lots of these cars have a motorbike engine.

The Finnish Defence Forces got a few hundred of those UAZ-military vehicles in the 1970s and 1980s (might still have some of them in use). I'm not sure if we actually bought them from the Soviet Union or got them through barter trade, which was usually how trade was done between Finland and the USSR. I don't know much about them, but as far as I know the off-road capabilities were good, but the engines were rubbish and had to be repaired constantly. And they had a petrol engine, not diesel.

Oh look it's Tony! He's there! In all his Cerosine, ziptie belt glory!

UAZ should be gazoline not diesel. Drives really good in mud, slow, strong and very simple.

The Fiat in rally livery is a 127, I had one in the U.K.in the late 80's. The main con on these was that the retaining clip on the bottom of the gear leaver was base metal. it would sometimes fracture, and thus have the connecting ball joint fall off. I once drove home through a city center 5 miles stuck in 3rd gear. Massive overrevving and clutch control! Nice video.

I wanted to see a 1971 Triumph 2500 PI like I used to own.

Some additional info on the cars mentioned: "Warszawa" was a design bought from the Soviets in early 50s, in turn loosely inspired by American cars of the 40s, yet with some simplifications like a 4-cylinder engine, initially side-valve (with terrible fuel consumption), then OHV. There were some Polish variants like a station wagon or even a small pickup. The model stayed in production in Poland for way too long, being extremely outdated in the late 60s and early 70s. There were some fun special versions like a railcar / draisine. Too bad nobody brought a Syrena (FSO Syrena in Wikipedia) to this event. A 2-stroke monstrosity, with a lot of components borrowed from "Warszawa" yet much smaller and lighter. The car was outdated from the start, yet there were some cool developments - P-20 pickup and Bosto panel van. Plus the legendary Syrena Sport (the most beautiful car from behind the Iron Curtain), the only prototype of which was purposely destroyed by the commies. PF126p - our late female basketball player Margo Dydek (7'1) was able to drive this car. Skoda 105/120 - some people would carry a 100lbs block of concrete in the front trunk in order to improve handling. The predecessors (Skoda 100/110 and Skoda 1000MB) looked much cooler, yet they are rare today. Skoda 100 is mentioned in the legendary "Jožin z bažin" clip.

Oh Boy,. This brings some memories. I must have bin 6 or seven years old. My mum used to drive a Fiat Bambino in the late 70s. This car was trash on wheels. Believe me. I remember this one hot summer day. My mum drove me to the public swimming pool. there was bump on the road. My mother drove over it and all of the sudden she wasn't able to accelerate any more. When she pushed the paddle nothing happened. We were sitting in this hot car sweating and it looked like that our swimming pool trip will be cancelled. Than a young man pulled over and came to our tiny yellow fiat Bambino. He was an US solder who didn't understand any word of German and at the same time my mother didn't know any English. At this time there was a huge US garrison in and around my home town. Within no time he fixed the car. There was a hook at the end of the throttle cable. When my mother drove over the bump the hook jumped out of some kind of eyelet. This was such a simple technic. The US guy was my Hero. He fixed the car and we were able proceed our drive to the swimming pool. It happened several times that the hook flipped out out the eyelet. Some time later, at the Fiat dealership they fixed the flipping hook, by just winding some wire over the hook and through the eyelet. This is how I connect Fiat 500 Bambino to the united States. Meanwhile I am 50 and still remember how an American GI fixed my mother's car.

11:10 The slightly opened (or sometimes completely open) secured engine cover was typical of "sporty"/motorsport fiats of the rear engined era it's meant to help evacuate heat from the tiny compartment the engines are in. When you look at old Abarth (Fiat's sport brand) 500 or 595 even they almost always have the rear lid open.

OMG! In Croatia, we call the Fiat 126 "Peglica", haven't seen one for ages!

@16:58 .. i never heared of polonez or warshawa... i feel abit dumb.. i m from eastern europe , living in germany for 26 years^^

I love for you to have had that chance to look at a few nice cars. ;) Keep it up! ;)

Greetings from Slovakia, my grandfather had a Škoda like that, but it was white and we had a Favorit combi

I worked for Skoda UK in the late 1980’s, just as they were transitioning from the rear-engined “Estelle” (130) to the front-engined Favorit, as shown in your video. In fact, I remember when the first ever Favorit model was brought to the Kings Lynn site ahead of it going on sale in the UK. These were the last of the pre-Volkswagen influence cars.

IT was more of a meeting of car owners from Eastern Europe, mainly from Poland. Certainly somewhere in Chicago or the surrounding area, my native language can be heard in the background.The purchase of a license from Fiat for the production of the 126m meant that many Poles could experience motorization on a mass scale. Imagine that in such a Fiat, families of four or even five people traveled from Poland for holidays to the then Bulgaria to the Black Sea and Yugoslavia to the Adriatic Sea and, of course, to the Polish countryside, maybe even to the mountains from all over Poland. This model even had a camping trailer, a roof rack and many other interesting gadgets specially produced by Poles. There was also a BIS version with a flat engine and liquid cooling, making it a hatchback with the engine and trunk at the back, and there was also a Cabrio version, both made in Poland. Currently 125p, it has the status of a cult car. A total of 4,671,586 Fiat 126s were produced, of which 3,318,674 in Poland (1,152,325 in the plant in Bielsko-Biała, 2,166,349 in Tychy.

The company I worked for in the UK in the 1960s built a variety of industrial conveyor systems, including NC controlled overhead conveyors for the Motor Industry and materials handling equipment. We were responsible for the materials handling and conveyors for the then new Škoda manufacturing plant in the then Czechoslovakia. The sharp corners on the Cybertruck are just great for pedestrian safety.

The Yugo is actually a re-skinned Fiat 127, so you kind of got the Martini-car, somehow ;)

the last 126 Fiat went as Hatchbacks with trunklid!

Never thought a Yankee could teach me anything about european cars ! First time in my life I hear about a Warszava ! Thank you for that !

Polonez showed here it 😮was last face-lift from 2000's. Produced since 1978, modified every few years but construction of the engine comes from FIAT 124 or 1300 1.5l 8Valve OHV, 3 main bearings. Chassis comes from Fiat 1300 mix with 125 RWD leaf springs, body was good and safe like for 80s but not rust proof at all.