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Lew-GTR In reply to HerrHans [2017-03-07 20:29:13 +0000 UTC]
Dzięki!
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XYZ-Petter [2012-02-06 22:44:24 +0000 UTC]
śpieszmy sie kochac Poldki. TAk szybko odchodzą.
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Lew-GTR In reply to XYZ-Petter [2012-02-06 22:49:08 +0000 UTC]
Szczera prawda...
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SirSubaru [2011-09-09 20:46:56 +0000 UTC]
achhh...klasyka..
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Lew-GTR In reply to Balka92 [2011-09-11 11:25:02 +0000 UTC]
Może nie GSI, ale dużej różnicy nie ma: [link]
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Lew-GTR In reply to diana6echo [2011-09-09 20:10:24 +0000 UTC]
Ten samochód w ogóle jest dobry na polskie drogi, ale niedoceniany, bo przecież "nie zagraniczny"...
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0viking0 [2011-07-20 19:07:06 +0000 UTC]
In facet, i really like this car... There were some here in Croatia 15+yrs ago
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Lew-GTR In reply to 0viking0 [2011-07-20 19:13:33 +0000 UTC]
Oh yes, it was exported to many countries... I'm a big fan of it and it breaks my heart when I think that it's easier to find it in, for example, Egypt, than in its home country... Poles don't look after their own motorization.
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JJx95 [2011-05-25 13:41:12 +0000 UTC]
Całiem nieźle. Trochę mało głębi za to raczej nie odbiega za dużo od oryginału. Dobra robota.
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Lew-GTR In reply to JJx95 [2011-05-25 19:59:14 +0000 UTC]
Zamierzam kupić porządne ołówki więc mam nadzieję, że kolejne prace będą lepsze.
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Lew-GTR In reply to 19Skejciara10 [2011-05-19 16:27:18 +0000 UTC]
Chyba musisz wymienić Audi na Poloneza w takim wypadku...
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rustyironmonger [2011-05-18 03:21:08 +0000 UTC]
I like it... wish they'd have sold the FSO pickup truck in the US. It would have been popular here...
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Lew-GTR In reply to rustyironmonger [2011-05-18 12:31:16 +0000 UTC]
Do you really think so? It has a small engine...
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 12:39:12 +0000 UTC]
Yes... the VW Caddy, Toyota Hilux and early Mazda B-series sold well here with small engines, and I could imagine FSO pickups being widely used on farms, as work trucks in city areas and on large industrial complexes if they'd been sold here.
Although the engine could be dangerously underpowered with US emission controls put on it...
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Lew-GTR In reply to rustyironmonger [2011-05-18 13:04:42 +0000 UTC]
I didn't know that... Thanks for info! So you're probably right. I read once that FSO tried to put '125p' model on the U.S. market, but without any results...
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 13:21:50 +0000 UTC]
They tried sending the Polonez here sometime in the 80s, Lada, Dacia and Skoda also attempted to, but the FSO could not meet emission standards, the Lada Riva did not meet crash-safety standards, the Niva rolled over too easily and the Samara had not been introduced yet, the Dacia failed on all counts, and Skoda's importer went broke after type approval was completed.
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Lew-GTR In reply to rustyironmonger [2011-05-18 13:32:22 +0000 UTC]
OK... Thanks again! That's something new and useful for me.
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 13:52:13 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome... I once talked to a guy at a car show whose dad and uncle tried to import Trabants and Wartburgs in the mid-80s, but couldn't figure out how to make either engine emissions-compliant and couldn't raise the money to get cars here for type approval and crash-testing. The Trabi would have failed anyway.
Supposedly the federalized Wartburg and Trabi are still somewhere in the midwestern US...
Tatra T600s were sold very briefly in the US but had a longer life in Canada, where a few T603s were also imported, Skoda and Wartburg sold here for a while in the late 50s/early 60s, from the same importer, a few EMWs and Tatra T87s were imported by military men and diplomats, and Moskvitch sold a few cars on the East Coast in the early 60s. I have seen a few classic Skodas, Wartburgs, Trabants and Tatras in magazines, on eBay and in car shows, have seen Ladas with Canadian and Mexican plates here on occasion, but have seen no Moskvitches in the US except in old pictures.
(I love Eastern European cars, as you can probably tell by now... I even wear a Soviet cadet cap with a red star everywhere...)
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 14:19:12 +0000 UTC]
I have heard of the Polonez collector, and IIRC, he was Canadian. There have been many people here who have imported Trabants and Wartburgs privately as collector cars, but two-strokes have been verboten in the US since the late 1960s, when stringent emissions standards were adopted. You can't even buy a two-stroke boat engine, lawn mower or weed cutter anymore in most places. There were many SAABs, DKWs, Messerschmitts, Maicos and other two-strokes (Wartburgs too) in the 50s and 60s, but there were no pollution standards then.
The two-stroke emission issues were a big part of what stopped the guy I talked to at a car show from bringing East German cars to the US, no matter what he tried in the way of fancy exhaust systems, filters, carbon canisters, methanol injection, recirculation setups, and many other things, the government said no, and he gave up in 1986.
I was really tempted to buy a 1948 Skoda sedan project last year, but I passed when I found out the engine was stripped to the block and that the floor was completely gone. My area is fairly close to the ocean, is very humid and is in the rain shadows of two mountain ranges, so cars rust easily here, and this Skoda was no exception.
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 15:05:01 +0000 UTC]
They are... if they could put sanctions on coal-fired electricity plants, factories, steel mills, wood processors, sewage-treatment plants, crematoriums, trash incinerators and livestock (particularly cattle and hogs), there wouldn't be as great a need for controlling cars, trucks and motorcycles' exhaust emissions. This goes for both the US and Europe. And please don't get me started on the pollution issues in India, China and South Korea.
Automotive laws here in the US are ridiculous, there is a special set of Draconian regulations distinct from European and Japanese regulations that exist solely to protect the American auto industry (which has spewed forth nasty POSs for many years and is slowly, deservedly withering as a result), 25% taxes were put on imported trucks and cargo vans for the same reason, and no car newer than 25 years old can be imported legally unless it is on a list of conforming vehicles, with the states of California and New York forbidding anything newer than 1975 due to their emissions laws. (I have known of people in both states getting things like Matras, BMW M1s, Renault 5 Turbos, Lotus Elise S1s with Japanese-market Honda engine transplants, Porsche 959s and Ford Escort RS Cosworths legalized)
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Lew-GTR In reply to rustyironmonger [2011-05-18 15:12:20 +0000 UTC]
This is madness... I've had enough of those all systems like catalytic converters, FAP/DPF filters, fuel vapors' absorbers, exhaust recirculation systems, direct injections... As a student of automotive technical college, I had to learn about all that stuff...
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rustyironmonger In reply to Lew-GTR [2011-05-18 15:26:15 +0000 UTC]
It really is madness... if all engines went to ethyl alcohol or butanol and animal or vegetable-derived oils for fuel (which is completely possible), we would need none of that nonsense and could go back to carbureted and mechanically fuel-injected engines without pollution controls. Imagine making fuel out of the waste products of cotton, wood, paper, meat and grain, and oilseeds like sunflower, cottonseed and safflower, instead of toxic, polluting, non-renewable petroleum that causes horrific oil-driven wars...
Unfortunately the oil companies would wage war on the likes of Cargill, Du Pont, Monsanto, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Novartis and we would have a different kind of problem...
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