In this video, I’m cold starting my carbureted 1987 Yugo GV after it’s been sitting for about a week. It’s currently 35 degrees (F) outside. It’s an almost rust free, all original survivor with ~40k miles. Let’s see how it does!
@@hobbyvideos2798 Uzimajući u obzir da ima karburator i razvodnu kapu s rotorom i mehaničkim prekidačem paljenja, itd., prakitčki automobil može da ostane funkcionalan i posle eventualnog EMP događaja.
It gives me great pleasure to see these cars still on the road. Looks like you have a really nice one. I used to own two 1987 yugos one was red and one was maroon. Me and my girlfriend really enjoyed them very much. The only problem we ever had with them was the interior door handles and window cranks the only mechanical issue I ever had on both of them was the clutch cable needing to be replaced. Other than that the car got excellent gas mileage and we're very fun to drive. I love the fact that you can park the car almost anywhere my buddies used to play jokes on me and pick the car up by themselves and put the car in the parking space sideways. But that's what made the Yugo fun. I hope you're enjoying yours as much as I did mine puting over 100.000 miles on mine. I really wish I would have kept at least one of them. Even after putting a hundred thousand miles on my red one the car still ran great when I sold it .. the maroon one went to my now ex-girlfriend and as far as I know she. Is still enjoying it to this day.
Man...seems like you have choke on...that's why you're losing power and it revs so much. Btw, Yugo is in great condition. Take care of it well. Greetings from Kragujevac :)
My Fiat 500L is built in your city! I love my car! It's been very good to me and is tough as nails! We in Chicago Illinois, USA had a very cold winter awhile back with temperatures as low as -25. My Serbian built 500L started and ran like a top! Yugos were mistreated and abused in our country. If you maintain them, they were tough little cars!
@@Mark-eu4ds Hey Mark. Glad to hear that Fiat serves you well and hope it will in the future. Actually it is made in very same factory as Zastava did. I'm not Fiat user myself, but I've heard some good words for those cars, especially for US market (more rigorous quality controls and things...). Greetings from Serbia and stay healthy! Uzdravlje!
I bought a 1988 model in 1989. I bought it used, It was good little car for the price. A friend sold it to me for $1600.00. I don't remember how many miles it had on it. It always started and ran good, but it needed a bigger cooling system on it. In the winter I had to put a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator to make the heater keep the interior warm. In the summer I could pull up to a red light, and it would overheat while I sat there waiting for the light to change. It had a great a/c in it. It blew so cold that it would blow snow out of the vents. It always started, and ran good, and I had no problems with it. I've had a lot of American made cars that weren't nearly as good.
I will never forget Yugo. My friend was driving his girl in that car, gone to parking lot...hard left, something in door snaped and girlfriend fell from car in mud...rest is history😂😂😂
Mercedes leaves a fly in their car through the night. If it's suffocated to death in the morning due to lack of air, it's well put together. Zastava leaves a cat inside Yugo through the night. If cat's still inside in the morning, it's well put together.
I had a Yugo 45A back in 1991/1992...loved every minute of driving it and it only broke down once. Take great care of that little gem.... she's a rare survivor 😊
Oh man you have the original spare tire from 1987! Its TG 605 and and TG stands for Tigar, Serbian tire producer. Now days they should be under Michelin.
Michael Martinović No, it's a Serbian company. Founded in Pirot, Serbia. Only companies formed during the time of Yugoslavia can be called Yugoslavian. During the YU times they've been producing tires for the whole country not only for Serbia as a republic inside YU, but it's HQ stayed in Serbia to this day.
@Michael Martinović druze metal je stigao iz smedereva i niksicke zelezare slovenia je dala samo releje ostala elektronika je iz fabrike EI Niš tako da znaš
@Michael Martinović Not exactly true, when it started in Serbia in 1935 100% of the parts were originally made in Serbia. Later when Tito formed Yugoslavia, he made deals with some companies from other states, but everything except partly steel (Montenegro) and small electronic parts (Slovenia) was still made in Serbia. After dissolution of YU, Serbia continued to run this company on its own again. One could say it used to be a Serbian company in Yugoslavia, but solely Yugoslav - no.
4 года назад
Great condition for 1987. I had a Yugo from 1990. but the rust eat it away years ago. It was literally falling apart. It had though more than 200k km on the clock (which was quite impressive)...
Absolutely love these little cars. My 88 GVX is also an original survivor car, 10,00 miles! Ive had to fix a few things but otherwise she commutes right along at 80 with Atlanta traffic without problem.
Beautiful car, thanks for keeping it in such great condition. I was born in Slovenia, an ex-jugoslavian country. My grandfather owned a Jugo, as did many people. One day, I want to buy one of these.
Seen 7/20 I had two. 1987 In Red. And 1987 Dark Blue. It had air conditioning. We bought both for teenage daughters. They used in highschool and college. No issues with the cars. Enjoy yours.
Interesting that even the American Yugos have "the smell" I've been inside hundreds of them in my life and there hasn't been a single one that doesn't smell the same inside
I have a real affection for these cars, the throwaway cars. My ex-boyfriend loved Chevettes, which are about the same, only American, and my nephew, who had a Renault Alliance, which is another weird little throwaway. These cars, like Pintos and Mavericks and K-cars, no one bothered saving. I love them. I get so excited when I see one at a car show. Silly sentimental....
Thank you!! I lucked out and happened to have found one that was taken very well care of. The previous owner owned this for over a decade and kept it garaged. I keep it in a storage unit over the winter.
Greetings from Serbia, where every other car is a Yugo! We are sick of them but in America they are very very rare! Please keep that car for as long as you live. it is a golden reminder of how cars were great and simple in the 80's!
@@simicluka4406 Ne znam sta je hteo reci lik, ali slazem se da ih ima sve manje i manje. Sada je prilicno daleko od toga da je svaki treci auto Jugo. Desi se ponekad da ne primetim jedan tokom dana... NS u ovom slucaju
@@lukalackovic9059 But they sure will be, nowadays it's more difficult to see Zastava 128/101 than the Yugos, as they had a larger quantity sold than anything before, maybe close to the Fico.
@rvbildr111 no, the only real Macedonia, which is Macedonia, not Aegean Macedonia which was stolen by greece in 1913 during the treaty of versailles. Its ok for your mistake
Yugo have manual choke below steering wheel, and when its cold outside it must be pulled when you starting car. And when its started you can push choke back. But i think it s made with eletronic choke for american market.
My uncle had one that was exactly the same, same interior, same color. First car i have ever driven, i was about 12 or 13.. good times. Greetings from Croatia
Im from Serbia, EX Yugoslavia, 30 years old. I learned to drive on yugo and my father had yugo 55. I have a cassete player in it and there was a cassete stuck in it - Riblja Corba - Kost u grlu 1979... I was listening these songs for years over and over again. Man, it was rough ride, but I really never had problem with it and I had best sex in that car. Good times
4 года назад
Your choke is on, that's why your engine sounds loud and when you rev it it sounds like it's going to explode. Just turn the choke off or adjust it a little bit and you will see the difference, and of course, when the engine heats up to a working temperature don't forget to turn off the choke completely.
@@BobSaint Električni grijač i/ili sustav hlađenja spojen na bimetalnu spiralu koja je spojena na saug i vuče ga gore dole. Bilo ih je u kasnim 80ima i ranim 90ima.
I think that everyone has done it sooner than later because it was my first car as well so when you are young and wanna have fun with cheap car that you can buy parts and cigarettes in the same store 😁
I was fixing my dad's yugo when I was 12 :) thats how easy was to repair. No electronics. Everything is mechanical good old days. Most common problem with this cars is overheating. If you bring toolbox with you you can easily go around the world :D.
I used to have one. My first car. Dark red! That was the best color for yugo. Im planning on buying one soon again. It has a great clerance. Its light, it can go anywhere. So simple machanicly, anyone can learn to fix it. I loved it. I get sad when i think about my old yugo.
Lucky you owning a well preserved one with a/c. I have a 2003 model red with stock modern bumpers and side skirts also a little different dashboard, but it lacks a/c. It's such a fun to drive one of these
Lord. I used to drive one back in 1993-4. I used to dog it out just to keep up with traffic here on Birmingham, AL’s freeways. Fun little car, until I had something else to compare it to. Don’t sell it. I’ll never forget the Yugo interior smell too.
@@UpfulWarrior really? i think that's only cause i live in valjevo which is a less wealthy part of serbia so i think that's why i don't see such ming yugos
I saw and talked to you at RADwood (I’m sure you don’t remember me lol) and I’m so glad that Yugo found a good home! I can’t wait to see more videos. Its so clean!
КАКО ЈУГО НЕМА ДРУГО! 🇲🇰❤🇺🇲 This car is so popular in the ex Yugo countries and it's so cheap with high quality that everyone can buy it! This Yugo looks so good congratulations for having such a good old car! Greetings 😁
Congratulations for keeping Yugo at you, that small simpatic car for ever. I had it too☺️, but there was total traffic accident so... and Yugo was with me for 10 years without any issue, just oil and oil filter changes, thats all.
Thank you! I plan on doing more videos in the spring once the salt is off the roads - this Yugo is startlingly clean and rust free, and the Michigan salt would almost instantly rot the brittle sheet metal.
Lol. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia, you have them for like 250-450$. Which is in Bosnia and Herzegovina= 500 Konvertibilnih Marki (KM) I'm not so sure about Croatia and Serbia, I'm not really into these Kuna and Dinars
It actualy smells like freedom - you could change many Things by yourself, it was reliable for that time, cheap to buy and maintain, which meant: no to many years of paying back the loans. Good old times, the smell of my childhood.
Those carburetors are pretty bad and inefficient yours might still be working fine but it is something to look into.. here in europe they only came on koral 60s and so I suggest replacing it with a koral 55 carb or even a bigger weber for some more power also deleting emissions crap would make it breathe better and bring back some ponnies..Car looks amazing in that blue it really is like nothing else on the road truly a time capsule..
By the way I'm glad to see this car is such good condition, I hope you will take care of it because no one love them even if it's very fun little cars !
greetings grom serbia. wow, so nice of you to kept it in such mint condition.. been a long time I've seen such clean yugo enterior... the factory is closed for about 15 years now... no more yugos.. fiat only :|
a bit of trivia: unless upgrades in some way, you can basically open a yugo with a screwdriver... starting the engine has the same prerequisities as doors :))
Beautiful piece of history. Especially if you know why Yugos actually got to the States (check out the 'Houston, We Have A Problem' documentary with Žižek 😉). I laughed so hard at the 3 ashtrays. Just goes to show Yugoslavs love(d) their cigarettes. But 3 is excessive. Slavs usually just use the windows as ashtrays. Saves time and cleaning.
It fires like a rocket🙏🙏 Amazing one! You just need to flip over that spare wheel, so you could fasten it with a central screw dead tight.. cheers/živeli😎
