Fantastic. Your happiness is infectious. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us . Your English is so good. You are a great communicator. Thank you. Greetings from North East England.
If you join a Żuk forum, or FB group will surely be of much help if it comes to parts. Poland is in Eu, and in fact not that far from Denmark ;) so shipping parts should not be an issue.
We call it the "Żuk król dróg" witch translates to Żuk king of the road. Believe it or not, but it's the best non licensed car/truck that Poland has ever made. You can still find them doing work in countryside in Poland. They'r pretty tough and simple to maintain as you mentioned. Plenty of new parts still available in Poland so no worries here.
i love old vehicles like this better than the modern stuff and usefull i think its got a low compression on one cylinder might have tight valve clearances but a great vehicle all the best from dave northumberland england
**sees a stylized picture of a grandfather** "Yeah! 8 year old tires from Romania looks just dandy!" ..also jumping around outside the vehicle you just bought with your arms stretched in a spasm while trying to see the gagues and levers in the instrument cluster!! Oh Seaside!! Never change!!
How cool! A friend brought one back to the UK, from Poland. An old fire truck. Every Polish person we came across loved it, and wondered why he would have one which was amusing. The fire equipment was removed and a pair of bench seats installed so it could seat 8. Top speed was 75-80KPH, which meant getting anywhere was an exercise in patience. His is also a 1993, amazing how simple they are!
Żuk should break the 100KPH no problem. There is a popular farmer channel on Polish youtube called "Jarekogarek1986". He has a Żuk for like 5 years now. He filmed it from the day he bought it, even the initial trip back home after the purchase. His Żuk is older than the one Seaside Garage has and there's different gearbox with only 3 speeds and reverse. But the engine is the same. It also doesn't fire on one cylinder, but it doesn't have a dead hole and it's not fireing only at idle (valve adjustment problem probably). He tested the max speed many times on video, it was always around 115KPH according to the gauge (not very accurate thought). I believe he also checked the speed with GPS.
I also collect non-military stuff from the former Eastern-bloc. I have a Soviet Rigonda Party Time Calypso record deck, a Rigonda micro-television, several motorbikes, books, cigarettes, picture books and much much more. However, the vehicles are my weakness and I've owned Portaros, lots of Yugos (including a convertible) Ladas an FSO pick-up etc. Good luck with the Zuk
I drove one carrying blackcurrants back from the field when i was 16. it let me earn my driving license course! Brakes would always lean to side, random direction. It was produced up to 1998!
Looking forward to seeing you work on this. I like simple, simple is good, and understandable, and repairable. Glad that a Polish commentator says spares are available and cheap. Good luck with it! Les 🇬🇧
Back in the 90s these were still on the road here in Ukraine, especially in the smaller cities like the one I grew up in. The van version was way more common. It's lovely to see you tinkering with somewhat exotic stuff like this Polish pick-up truck both from mechanical as well as sentimental standpoint!
Hello, I'm from Poland but I don't have instagram. Parts are plentiful and inexpensive here, as even in 2024 you can still see these „beetles” as a workhorses.
worst things for rust is parking on grass ...grass sucks up moisture that is evaporated through the leaves ..so gives underneath of the truck a sauna with condensate ..plus the soil is always moist ..park on gravel or concrete
That is truly a great purchase! Have fun! :D It is a joy to have cars from People's Republic of Poland here in the Nordics ;) EDIT: OMG its from the 90's :D
That's a very nice profect! I love your channel Seppo. Filled with interesting cars! I like French a mnd eatern bloc vehicules. I love the fact that this one is from Poland! Best of luck and thank you for sharing
In winter they become really sick drifting machines on the snow if not loaded. There's barely a way to take turns without the rear end dancing all over the road. It's better than a BMW :D
That is a really cool pick up. I'd sooner drive that than be sen in a VW transporter! i used to love playing ARMA with all the cold war era eastern block vehicles to play with.
Hi, bis zur Erfindung von Holzverbundstoffen gabs im LKW Bau 2-3 Schicht Böden meines Wissens nach. Der erste auf dem Rahmen war Wetterfestes Holz , dann kam eine Flexible Schicht um das springen der Ladung etwas zu unterbinden und zum Schluss kam wieder eine Robuste Verlattung zum Zuge. Eigentlich machen es noch viele so nur das halt als Tragschicht heute ein Robuster Holz Kunststoff Mix kommt. Ein Spezialist erklärte es so , eine LKW ist eigentlich nur Ramen mit Kabine und Achsen, das verwindet sich je nach Straßenverhältnisse . Im Gelände sogar sehr stark, wenn man nun eine Boden nehmen würde der da nich mitmacht gäbe es nur noch Bruch und Schrott. Klar verwindet Sie sich nicht so wie der Ramen aber der Boden ist halt das Rückgrat von "Spriegel und Bracke" wie der Aufbau in Deutschland Technisch heißt.
I really like it, think you got a good deal, shouldn’t say it because I’m English but I’ve never been a fan of rovers, I enjoy they kinds of simple vehicles
Mon ikke du skulle starte med papirarbejdet, før du bruger krudt på noget som helst andet. Har lidt svært med at forstille mig, den slags kan komme på DK plader. Hvis du vil af med din fascination, af øst ting, så bare gør som mig; jeg havde en Wartburg som eneste bil et par år. Så jeg er 100 % kureret for den slags tanker.
The van version was my grandpas work truck at the water treatment plant. Fucking thing had 30k km on it, and it had such a worn out engine it ended up not having enough compression to even start.
You and I are very alike... I loved playing Stalker. All of them I have them all apart from the new one. As for the van, I would not make it perfect, I would keep the patina.
It's very unfortunate but it sounded like it had a dead hole. Might be a problem with the valve adjustment, valves might not close fully due to that, and you have to adjust them manually. I think you just need a screwdriver and a 10 or 13 mm wrench to do that. No round plates that you put in the "buckets" like in the 1.1 MPI or the legendary 1.9 JTD 8v from Fiat, which are really painful to adjust because of that design. And most parts you can get from Poland, shipping shoudn't be a problem as we both are in the EU and Schengen. Żuk starts to be a classic vehicle or even an oldtimer around here, many people actually restore them. Btw if not loaded, they become sick drift machines in winter time, so I hope you'll have loads of fun with it :) Greetings from Poland!
I hope its a stuck valve or very badly adjusted... but more likely damaged valve maybe burned... or rings... but I am optimistic! Do you know of any sites that sell parts online?
So much of the layout of the truck is like my Mercedes Benz 608D, the cab inside has everything in just about the same place. Pedal linkage is similar, seat boxes similar and heating system. Prop shaft is like the 608D. BUT it seems to have an engine that looks like a Renault 4 with everything in the same places, and the bonnet cable... Funny.
Lol...cool. It doesn't get more basic and quirky than this. It's the van equivalent to a T34 or AK47! Simple, robust and as you said, can be fixed with a hammer, a spanner and a screwdriver. Utilitarian.
At the moment you talked about misfiring, did you see the big sparks when looking downward between the rotor cap and the floor?! ...here is your problem. Do you already know from where the engine derived from? Is it FIAT? The door carts are taken from the FIAT 126. Also the flick/flack buttons for light and fan on the dashboard etc. and the handles on the steering column derived from the 126. But this truck probable also have parts from the Polish made FIAT 125. At the moment you explained that the big switch on the bottom was for high beam I went ‘Nope, that’s for windscreen fluid’. My 126 has a similar set up but bolted under the dash. Normally you had to push a rubber button to manually get water on the screen. Overall is a funny thing to have. Funny because of simplicity and the wide variety you can do with it.
Zuk must have been a small scale Polish manufacturer, the fact that some parts are from Fiat and Lancia supports that. Looking at the truck as it is, it does need a full restoration from chassis up. For a auto shop it would make a good runner, carting parts and equipment around.🐞
Well, there's the aspect that the Lada / VAZ 2101 is a license-build version of the Fiat 124, and due to this there's a whole lot of parts which are basically the same no matter if they were made by Fiat or VAZ. Just for example, the turn signal lever unit. It's a 1960s Fiat part design, and its VAZ-/Lada license-build version unit found its way in other eastern block cars such as the Lada Niva, and on first look i guess that same turn-signal lever unit also got used in this Zuk truck.
@@nopadelik9286 Poland also made FIAT derived models such as the FSO "Polski FIAT" 125 which is where I suspect various components on this like the switchgear originated.
Next you'll be after a Barkas from east germany, a 2-stroke, 3-cylinder van that features in the game "The Long Drive", probably mentioned that one in the past though... :P
I do not want to break your dreams, but I do not think, that you can get this approved for danish registration as it is probably missing a catalytic converter, which is required from year 1990. :-(
Hi, The Fiat elements in the Zhuk are solely superficial - they result from the licence that the Polish communist government had from Fiat company on the Fiat 125 (special version for Poland) and the Fiat 126, which means these switches on the dashboard that were distributed onto all vehicles made in Poland whatsoever. The Zhuk is in fact a descender model of the Soviet-made Pobyeda, which was manufactured and developed in Poland on the Soviet licence as the Warszawa (Varshava), and which is said to have been based on some Western models whose technology was taken over after the World War II from Germany, with some specific additions of the Soviet designers. If you look for spare parts, you should examine the Polish language Internet, where this line of cars is called the Żuk (just copy this name with the Polish diacritic fonts). Good luck at restoring your Zhuk then!
I am very surprised that anyone from the part of the world that always had access to decent vehicles would like to drive this. An epitome of aerodynamics, driver's comfort, fuel efficiency, speed, safety, aestetics... the list is so long Oh and I just have noticed how ridiculously high the bed sits, way above wheels, on those strange metal supports. Why?? Looks like a literal waste of space.
No 3 on my grails list is a Zuk, no 2 is UAZ-452 aka the Soviet Commer SpaceVan 4x4 and no 1 is a MK1 Vyatka Vespa ripoff where diplomats in Rome went and bought a brand new "phatboy" Vespa 150, sent it back to Moscow in a diplomatic pouch where it was stripped down to the barest part, measured, technical drawings made and engineers set about strengthening the rather flimsy Vespa with thicker metal and reinforcing and stiffer springs and released it as the Vyatka aka "wasp" which Vespa stands for.... Absolutely shameless and folks learned to dread the ring ding ding of the Vyatka as they were mostly given to political enforcement officials within the party who would swoop on folks in rural areas unannounced looking for party purity amongst the proletariat and at least a major "sweetener" of a bribe and those Commissar's became exceptionally wealthy. No 4 on my list is a GAZ-14 but I do like the idea of the stratospheric GAZ's with the weird intake systems although I would have another Lada like a shot as in the 90's I had a Niva ex Russian service driven from Russia to Holland and then to the UK and boy was that a superb motor... In 2000 I bought for 100 pounds a 1 year old Lada Riva and that was a very shiny only 10k on the clock pile o' poo, ripped my back and shoulders up badly and still suffering today, still I sold it to a poor unwitting fool for a grand so 900 pounds profit and I bought a MK2 Granada estate 2.8i Ghia X Executive in metallic bottle green... luxury :D :D :D
I didn't expect Żuk on this channel. Greetings from Poland!
Sry but with his track record i am not surprised at all....Next car will be either Russian or french
Hello Poland! :D
Fantastic. Your happiness is infectious. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us . Your English is so good. You are a great communicator. Thank you. Greetings from North East England.
They must be talking bad bad English in North East England.
If you join a Żuk forum, or FB group will surely be of much help if it comes to parts. Poland is in Eu, and in fact not that far from Denmark ;) so shipping parts should not be an issue.
We call it the "Żuk król dróg" witch translates to Żuk king of the road. Believe it or not, but it's the best non licensed car/truck that Poland has ever made. You can still find them doing work in countryside in Poland. They'r pretty tough and simple to maintain as you mentioned. Plenty of new parts still available in Poland so no worries here.
Any pages online that sell parts?
@@SeasideGarage RUclips seems to be deleting my comments, I've send a meessage on IG.
That's a cool truck, I like oddball trucks 😀
Poland stronk! My dad had the same but a grey one. I barely remember it. Now it's time for Polonez!
Syrena?
Wow, what a great little truck! I can just imagine a Polish farmer taking his onions and potatoes to the local market.
I believe they still do it in the countryside :)
i love old vehicles like this better than the modern stuff and usefull i think its got a low compression on one cylinder might have tight valve clearances but a great vehicle all the best from dave northumberland england
Yea I am ignoring it for now ... and hoping its a stuck valve... :P
That will be a great workhorse once it's fixed up 👏
The centre bearing underneath is fitted to reduce prop shaft whip and vibration. I love the eastern block vehicles too 👍
I give it a day.
By this time tomorrow you'll have traded it for a London Routemaster bus.
🙌 :^)
**sees a stylized picture of a grandfather** "Yeah! 8 year old tires from Romania looks just dandy!"
..also jumping around outside the vehicle you just bought with your arms stretched in a spasm while trying to see the gagues and levers in the instrument cluster!! Oh Seaside!! Never change!!
How cool! A friend brought one back to the UK, from Poland. An old fire truck. Every Polish person we came across loved it, and wondered why he would have one which was amusing. The fire equipment was removed and a pair of bench seats installed so it could seat 8. Top speed was 75-80KPH, which meant getting anywhere was an exercise in patience. His is also a 1993, amazing how simple they are!
Nice!
Żuk should break the 100KPH no problem. There is a popular farmer channel on Polish youtube called "Jarekogarek1986". He has a Żuk for like 5 years now. He filmed it from the day he bought it, even the initial trip back home after the purchase. His Żuk is older than the one Seaside Garage has and there's different gearbox with only 3 speeds and reverse. But the engine is the same. It also doesn't fire on one cylinder, but it doesn't have a dead hole and it's not fireing only at idle (valve adjustment problem probably). He tested the max speed many times on video, it was always around 115KPH according to the gauge (not very accurate thought). I believe he also checked the speed with GPS.
Love it 😂 had 1 when I lived in Greece 🇬🇷 great find very rare to see💯 love your work thanks for your continued videos 👏
I also collect non-military stuff from the former Eastern-bloc. I have a Soviet Rigonda Party Time Calypso record deck, a Rigonda micro-television, several motorbikes, books, cigarettes, picture books and much much more. However, the vehicles are my weakness and I've owned Portaros, lots of Yugos (including a convertible) Ladas an FSO pick-up etc. Good luck with the Zuk
I've been educated, I've never heard of Zuk before but I kinda love it🥰
I drove one carrying blackcurrants back from the field when i was 16. it let me earn my driving license course! Brakes would always lean to side, random direction. It was produced up to 1998!
That's the coolest pickup I have seen in years!!
Wow! That will be so interesting to follow this project. ❤❤❤
Looking forward to seeing you work on this. I like simple, simple is good, and understandable, and repairable. Glad that a Polish commentator says spares are available and cheap. Good luck with it! Les 🇬🇧
Back in the 90s these were still on the road here in Ukraine, especially in the smaller cities like the one I grew up in. The van version was way more common. It's lovely to see you tinkering with somewhat exotic stuff like this Polish pick-up truck both from mechanical as well as sentimental standpoint!
A fuse for each light 😂, love these old vehicles. Just keep going with the tinyest bit of love
Surely the fuse should be the light filament. That seems the most soviet solution.
Hello, I'm from Poland but I don't have instagram. Parts are plentiful and inexpensive here, as even in 2024 you can still see these „beetles” as a workhorses.
this old truck is incredible!! Awesome find. You should do more horn tests on your cars 🤣
worst things for rust is parking on grass ...grass sucks up moisture that is evaporated through the leaves ..so gives underneath of the truck a sauna with condensate ..plus the soil is always moist ..park on gravel or concrete
Wow. Didn't see it coming! Perfect workshop truck!
oh hell yes, never heard of that van... so cool.
That is truly a great purchase! Have fun! :D It is a joy to have cars from People's Republic of Poland here in the Nordics ;) EDIT: OMG its from the 90's :D
That's a very nice profect! I love your channel Seppo. Filled with interesting cars!
I like French a mnd eatern bloc vehicules.
I love the fact that this one is from Poland!
Best of luck and thank you for sharing
I love this little truck Hello from USA ❤❤
In winter they become really sick drifting machines on the snow if not loaded. There's barely a way to take turns without the rear end dancing all over the road. It's better than a BMW :D
I've never seen one of these before, ever. I love it.
Common in CEE and the Baltics.
Hey! another two seat drop top. Cool.
What a nice one, I think this is the best Zuk color! Now a Zuk van is for sale locally, I am tempted to go and check it out :D
That is a really cool pick up. I'd sooner drive that than be sen in a VW transporter!
i used to love playing ARMA with all the cold war era eastern block vehicles to play with.
Oh and the pronounciation is more or less "Zhuk" (much like french word "jour" but with hard K at the end)
Wow, you really like a good challenge !
OMG! I haven't seen a Zuk probably since the early/mid 2000's! (Hungary) They are long gone.
In Poland there's still a few of them in the countryside and really small towns. But it's really a rare thing to see one in the city.
What a cool thing! ❤
Freedom for the spark. Did you see the Sparks near the distributor.
I thought that too but I think it was grass stuck in cobwebs being blown by the fan.
Exactly!
Hi, bis zur Erfindung von Holzverbundstoffen gabs im LKW Bau 2-3 Schicht Böden meines Wissens nach.
Der erste auf dem Rahmen war Wetterfestes Holz , dann kam eine Flexible Schicht um das springen der Ladung etwas zu unterbinden und zum Schluss kam wieder eine Robuste Verlattung zum Zuge. Eigentlich machen es noch viele so nur das halt als Tragschicht heute ein Robuster Holz Kunststoff Mix kommt.
Ein Spezialist erklärte es so , eine LKW ist eigentlich nur Ramen mit Kabine und Achsen, das verwindet sich je nach Straßenverhältnisse .
Im Gelände sogar sehr stark, wenn man nun eine Boden nehmen würde der da nich mitmacht gäbe es nur noch Bruch und Schrott.
Klar verwindet Sie sich nicht so wie der Ramen aber der Boden ist halt das Rückgrat von "Spriegel und Bracke" wie der Aufbau in Deutschland Technisch heißt.
Can we really appreciate the intro - esp the NPC walking into the car - it's just so right...
I tried to suddenly fling myself 200 meters up in the air randomly.....did not work...
looks great, looking forward to seeing it on the road.
Thats a lovely find!
I really like it, think you got a good deal, shouldn’t say it because I’m English but I’ve never been a fan of rovers, I enjoy they kinds of simple vehicles
You could also get the Mercedes 310d which was a hanomag or the Mercedes vito which was very closely based on the DKW schellaster
Now I like that and I'm looking forward to more videos of it.
Mon ikke du skulle starte med papirarbejdet, før du bruger krudt på noget som helst andet. Har lidt svært med at forstille mig, den slags kan komme på DK plader.
Hvis du vil af med din fascination, af øst ting, så bare gør som mig; jeg havde en Wartburg som eneste bil et par år. Så jeg er 100 % kureret for den slags tanker.
Easy Mode. Kør Hanomag. Så skal du fandeme se en effektiv kur.
Der er styr på det. :)
Think of the way the French say Garage. The second ‘g’ in garage is how you say the Ż in Żuk.
Yup, nailed it.
@@TWBJ_01 Now you know where Nissan got Juke from.
I've heard a wooden load bed is very practical. Stuff doesn't move around nearly so much.
The van version was my grandpas work truck at the water treatment plant. Fucking thing had 30k km on it, and it had such a worn out engine it ended up not having enough compression to even start.
Looks great
You and I are very alike... I loved playing Stalker. All of them I have them all apart from the new one.
As for the van, I would not make it perfect, I would keep the patina.
Rust look never appeals to me , after repairs i would hand paint whole truck in one colour.
this car is a silent hero of polish roads. it built polish economy. it was exported to soviet union and egypt
Mam takiego ale wersja rolnik pozdrowionka😊
It's very unfortunate but it sounded like it had a dead hole. Might be a problem with the valve adjustment, valves might not close fully due to that, and you have to adjust them manually. I think you just need a screwdriver and a 10 or 13 mm wrench to do that. No round plates that you put in the "buckets" like in the 1.1 MPI or the legendary 1.9 JTD 8v from Fiat, which are really painful to adjust because of that design. And most parts you can get from Poland, shipping shoudn't be a problem as we both are in the EU and Schengen. Żuk starts to be a classic vehicle or even an oldtimer around here, many people actually restore them. Btw if not loaded, they become sick drift machines in winter time, so I hope you'll have loads of fun with it :) Greetings from Poland!
I hope its a stuck valve or very badly adjusted... but more likely damaged valve maybe burned... or rings... but I am optimistic!
Do you know of any sites that sell parts online?
So much of the layout of the truck is like my Mercedes Benz 608D, the cab inside has everything in just about the same place. Pedal linkage is similar, seat boxes similar and heating system. Prop shaft is like the 608D. BUT it seems to have an engine that looks like a Renault 4 with everything in the same places, and the bonnet cable... Funny.
You can still get a few parts from any former Eastern-Block country. Not sure about shipping costs.
Lol...cool. It doesn't get more basic and quirky than this. It's the van equivalent to a T34 or AK47!
Simple, robust and as you said, can be fixed with a hammer, a spanner and a screwdriver.
Utilitarian.
Love it!
At the moment you talked about misfiring, did you see the big sparks when looking downward between the rotor cap and the floor?! ...here is your problem.
Do you already know from where the engine derived from? Is it FIAT?
The door carts are taken from the FIAT 126. Also the flick/flack buttons for light and fan on the dashboard etc. and the handles on the steering column derived from the 126. But this truck probable also have parts from the Polish made FIAT 125.
At the moment you explained that the big switch on the bottom was for high beam I went ‘Nope, that’s for windscreen fluid’. My 126 has a similar set up but bolted under the dash. Normally you had to push a rubber button to manually get water on the screen.
Overall is a funny thing to have. Funny because of simplicity and the wide variety you can do with it.
Its a piece of grass stuck in cobwebs and blown around by the coolant fan... not sparks... :P
Zuk must have been a small scale Polish manufacturer, the fact that some parts are from Fiat and Lancia supports that. Looking at the truck as it is, it does need a full restoration from chassis up. For a auto shop it would make a good runner, carting parts and equipment around.🐞
Well, there's the aspect that the Lada / VAZ 2101 is a license-build version of the Fiat 124, and due to this there's a whole lot of parts which are basically the same no matter if they were made by Fiat or VAZ. Just for example, the turn signal lever unit. It's a 1960s Fiat part design, and its VAZ-/Lada license-build version unit found its way in other eastern block cars such as the Lada Niva, and on first look i guess that same turn-signal lever unit also got used in this Zuk truck.
@@nopadelik9286 Poland also made FIAT derived models such as the FSO "Polski FIAT" 125 which is where I suspect various components on this like the switchgear originated.
Next you'll be after a Barkas from east germany, a 2-stroke, 3-cylinder van that features in the game "The Long Drive", probably mentioned that one in the past though... :P
YES please!
If you compare it with Danish design and productions vans...
Looks perfect for a new shop truck! Does it really have a carb in 1993? That’s almost amazing!
Yup! all carb
I see you got a free truck with the Blaupunkt car radio...
Ha!
Did you say Chernobyl? Have you tested it with a Geiger? Liking it a lot.
Fun fun fun. Where do you find all these treasres?
They grow it peoples garden!
sounded like it has a compression low
I can hear it's missing compression on one cylinder while cranking
Yea.... was hoping for spark issues, but the cranking sound is revealing another cause..
It will be difficult/Impossible to get registered in DK, because off the missing catalyst converter. 😢
Luckily N1 Vans with a load capacity of +640kg got dispensation until 1994! :D
Cool.
try horn also please
I am from czech republic. And I know this from my childhood. It is the worst car ever :-) This means more fun 😀
it is the best van in commie block :) Better than barkas or skoda
Front suspension copied from Opel Kapitan 1938 . Engine developed from Dodge Series D5 from 1937. (D5-GAZ11-GAZ12A-M20-S21)
There were 5,000-6,000 of them in the former GDR. Very susceptible to rust and very high fuel consumption.
YEEES Thats exactly what I love!
Distribution cap is arcking with body
Illusion! ;)
@@SeasideGarage 19.42 seconds looks like sparks
@dylan3657 its a piece of grass stuck in cobwebs that is tossed around by the air from the fan... :)
I was correct!
Very good guess!
Sparks from HT leads😂
It's a illusion... its a piece of grass that is stuck in cobwebs ! :D
What a pig! Still, it will be interesting to watch the progress.
Glæder mig til at se den til Østbiltræffet i Rødekro i august 25 :-)
Jeg skal prøve!
It's a softtop 🤔
I do not want to break your dreams, but I do not think, that you can get this approved for danish registration as it is probably missing a catalytic converter, which is required from year 1990. :-(
nope.... its from 1994 for n1 vans with loadcapacity above 640kg... so this one is ok!
@@SeasideGarage Great to hear, that this is not an issue for you. Phew!
Hi, The Fiat elements in the Zhuk are solely superficial - they result from the licence that the Polish communist government had from Fiat company on the Fiat 125 (special version for Poland) and the Fiat 126, which means these switches on the dashboard that were distributed onto all vehicles made in Poland whatsoever. The Zhuk is in fact a descender model of the Soviet-made Pobyeda, which was manufactured and developed in Poland on the Soviet licence as the Warszawa (Varshava), and which is said to have been based on some Western models whose technology was taken over after the World War II from Germany, with some specific additions of the Soviet designers. If you look for spare parts, you should examine the Polish language Internet, where this line of cars is called the Żuk (just copy this name with the Polish diacritic fonts). Good luck at restoring your Zhuk then!
its cute
I am very surprised that anyone from the part of the world that always had access to decent vehicles would like to drive this. An epitome of aerodynamics, driver's comfort, fuel efficiency, speed, safety, aestetics... the list is so long
Oh and I just have noticed how ridiculously high the bed sits, way above wheels, on those strange metal supports. Why?? Looks like a literal waste of space.
Oh these were everywhere in Poland in the old communist times, I remember them, all sorts of variants too :)
haha the intro xD
Get out, stalker
What an ugly truck !! I just love it
No 3 on my grails list is a Zuk, no 2 is UAZ-452 aka the Soviet Commer SpaceVan 4x4 and no 1 is a MK1 Vyatka Vespa ripoff where diplomats in Rome went and bought a brand new "phatboy" Vespa 150, sent it back to Moscow in a diplomatic pouch where it was stripped down to the barest part, measured, technical drawings made and engineers set about strengthening the rather flimsy Vespa with thicker metal and reinforcing and stiffer springs and released it as the Vyatka aka "wasp" which Vespa stands for.... Absolutely shameless and folks learned to dread the ring ding ding of the Vyatka as they were mostly given to political enforcement officials within the party who would swoop on folks in rural areas unannounced looking for party purity amongst the proletariat and at least a major "sweetener" of a bribe and those Commissar's became exceptionally wealthy. No 4 on my list is a GAZ-14 but I do like the idea of the stratospheric GAZ's with the weird intake systems although I would have another Lada like a shot as in the 90's I had a Niva ex Russian service driven from Russia to Holland and then to the UK and boy was that a superb motor... In 2000 I bought for 100 pounds a 1 year old Lada Riva and that was a very shiny only 10k on the clock pile o' poo, ripped my back and shoulders up badly and still suffering today, still I sold it to a poor unwitting fool for a grand so 900 pounds profit and I bought a MK2 Granada estate 2.8i Ghia X Executive in metallic bottle green... luxury :D :D :D
Rather VW transporter, not Beetle.
Zuk literally translates to beetle or bug, AFAIK.
Its the name of it... Zuk! :)
Not for me. I will pass on this series of videos. Hope you sell it soon!