I was wondering what the heck a zastava was?
Thankfully Google told me it was the fantastic Yugo ( that was the name in England).
True story time.
Back in 1979 my friend was a bus driver.
He drove mostly the single decker Leyland City buses.
It was a quiet night and I was riding along just for laughs as we did often.
We pulled up next to a Yugo at some lights.
The kid in it was revving up ready to charge off.
Our Leyland bus beat it off the mark and to 60mph quite handily.
Truly awful vehicle( cannot bring myself to call it a car!).
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But to the actual topic.
I would say at prices I have paid , not counting the money wasted on false starts, about the same car as actually resides in one of my garages.
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@rodman99999d>
in.
Never was much for Ford, but- ALWAYS drooled over Caroll’s Cobras(ACs, that is)! He had his fingers in the Ford GT/GT40 leg-wetters too. AHHHH, the Sixties(high octane/compression, no cats/emission controls and lead rocked)!
I can dig it! and did. albeit mostly on two wheels.
loved both the small block ver and the big block which ran zero to 100mph annd back to zero in less than 12 ticks. whoa.
two seater and no roof! how do ya beat that?
living for a while in Californialand, I bought a honda 750 new. rode it back to Fla. and had a Yoshimura racing kit installed. nice but should have gone with either a Turbo or SC.
the true humbler was a KZ 900 with a RC Engineering 1130cc all race kit. that one gort the works so it would be streetable... somewhat. tons of cosmetics as well. blew the head off racing. sold it broken for half what I had in it.
never rode again. wel, once I rode a friends new 80cid Harley across town during a 'repo' for a personal debt another fella owed him.
I could never see me owning Milwaukee's finest. Ducati, BMW, and assorted Rice burners? yep. all show and no go? nope.
@motown>
a 2009 Ford Focus with about 125k miles. The A/C still works!
congrats! Good call. keeping it real.
@wspohn
Whenever I see threads like "What turntable should I buy for $2000?" my response is always 'What someone else paid $4000 for not long ago.
ditto! or better!
though time does add into the equation.
growing up in the middle of last century I became enamored with Detroit steel. the Plymouth Hemi Cuda 1971 was and has ben my all time fav. under $5300 then, it ran an 11 second Quarter mile at 120mph, boxz stock off the show room floor.
Mopar big blocks then were the real deal!
@clearthink
Audio has nothing to do with cars
correct.
it does however have to do with money. and people who buy audio gear also buy cars. Well, mostly.
so you've never given any thought to what sort of automobile you could have for the price of your stereo rig?
often a past time surpasses financial prudence and folks wind up with a lot more invested into their past time than makes for good sense. though most audio nuts keep their systems evolving so the sticker shock is easier to swallow, until you are well into the deep end of the pond, as it were.
this is a simple thread. aimed at realizing some things about the hobby. such as how important the quality of the sound is to someone. perhaps too how deep some pockets are, but mostly towards opening eyes as to where the passion of devotion in audio ends up in a popular and more relatable vein, e.g. Cars.
and yes it is a bit silly but applicable and on a lighter side, appropriate.
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which car is sitting in your listening room?"
It is not exactly "sitting" in my listening room but it is hanging on the wall... A large picture of a Ferrari Prototipa. Kind of cool, an orange silkscreen on white paper with acoustic dots on the glass covering it. |
uberwaltz, "Thankfully Google told me it was the fantastic Yugo ( that was the name in England)." Yugo was made by the same company as rodman99999's Zastava 750s choice, but it was not the same car. Yugo, in comparison, was roomy, comfortable, and relatively modern. Either way, looking back from 2019, you have not missed much. However, it did have certain charm. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-zastava-750/ |
@blindjim - Those GTs were small-blocks too AND; some are still out there kicking butt(ie: even in the Quarter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ItLJoKTfWPw What a gorgeous piece of automotive sculpting! "all show and no go? nope. / ....blew the head off racing. sold it broken for half what I had in it." Ever ridden a bored and stroked Shovelhead? A buddy of mine owned a big-bore kit KZ and a majorly customed Sporty. He let me take the KZ through the park. It was fun, but- zip and splats always put me in mind of BIC lighters(compared to Zippo)! Then there’s the comfort on a cross-country thing(even chopped). Different strokes for different folks(so many applications, for that cliche’). |
@glupson - "Yugo, in comparison, was roomy, comfortable, and relatively modern." There’s wasn't much else, that a Yugo was a step up FROM(to end a sentence with a proposition). |
I don't know what car is sitting in my listening room, but I can say that the listening room in my car (truck) is amazing. I'm finding the sound quality of the system I installed there difficult to match in the home.
Kenwood (high-end model - nothing special there) head unit to Phoenix Gold MS250 (high-current from the 90's) to 3-way Morel (8-3/4" bass) separates in the doors, and Orion HCCA250 Digital Reference (also from 90's) powering two 12" Digital Designs subs in a custom enclosure (I built). I'm amazed how good it sounds every time I get in the truck. How can the system sound that good with the drivers 90deg off axis! Think it has something to do with the massive hex-core magnets on the mids and tweets. I have considered getting a second set of Renaissance Audio SR-8.3 and build some home speakers with proper air volume for the bass driver. |
Glupson.
You mean there was something worse than a Yugo???
Makes me break out in a cold sweat just contemplating the thought.
Course an old air cooled Beetle was also a terrible car to ride in although you could fix most problems on it with just a hammer, crescent wrench and screwdriver including dropping the motor out.
Yes that will offend a lot of lovers of those God awful things but they were/are horrible drivers.
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My second choice? Hmmmm...Messerschmidt. Yeah, baby!
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Should I have mentioned: the GT in that vid, was a later 427 version(NOT small block)? |
as for Mr. Shelby… saw a Netflix Doc on him called Shelby American last night. very good! it revealed every nook and cranny Carrol ventured into. including his stint with Aston Martin as their #1 driver, and his eventrual disgust and feud with Enzo F.
curiously, if his venture as a chicken farnmer had proven worthy and he had not lost everything and needed a new path to make money, who knows if he would have kept on his ideas for motor sports racing?
building.
all too soon Carrol Shelby’s failing heart put him out of racing, at least as a driver..
the cobra became his ambition to depose Ferrari and Chevy;s Corvette. although his 289 V8 Cobra blew it off the Ricverside race track and had it down by 3 laps before he blew off an axle and lost.
ala the Cobra applied the theme he had learned and used to win so many races with Aston Martin novel idea of weight to HP ratio. in fact he got frames from them for his new ‘super car’.
as well, given fate has many faces and detours, if Lee Iacoca then with Ford and he had not hit it off, and his cobra venture not been successful, the Ford GT 40 would not have come about and later on unseated Ferrari at Le Mans.
the 427cid ford motor was not the first power plant for the GT40 as I recall.
the funniest part of the doc was how Carrol who was the winningest road racer in the early fifties in the world, was ‘in’ with all theCar mags then. once his first and then, only 289 V8 cobra was ready for trials he had one after another car mag/tester come out to drive it. it was thereafter repainted for each magazine review so every car rag saw a different color and hence thought he had many models. lol
shelby’s success was the direc t result of him surrounding hinmself with some exceptional people like Mickey Thompson and Bob bondurant who drove for him.
like some of the pundantws in this past time’s manufacturring and design process the cream often takes more than time to raise to the top.
I/ll revise the ‘car’ cost equivalant currently residing here… its between a ’62 Dodge Dart and a ’67 Ford Falcon Sprinbt perhaps.
BTW A friend of mine just acquired a McClaren. had to sell one of his other cars to get it,his Vette I’nm pretty sure. . whoa.
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There is another failed ex-chicken farmer, who became, well ...not famous, but quite infamous.
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the only other quite noteable former chicken rancher that comes to mind was Heinrich Himmler. .
well him and my Aunt Doretta., although she did not have the infammy Hmmler did, but she had way more birtds!
funny thing... Alfred Hitchcok's 'The birds' was on TV and I watched it.
two dayhs later while visiting my aunt's hone later and not knowing she had a going chicken farm I ventured out to the enormous barn and slowly eased the door open.. suddenly 6 0,000 chickens errupted in unison!
for a kid of 9 years old, this was more than a startling event! I slammed the door shut an ran back into the house.
apart from a dozen or so loose wandering birds on the grounds one would never suspect so many birds could have possibly been there. |
