Bizarre and terrible Dukes of Hazzard-painted cars are easy to find in the world. Nissan Sentras, Suzuki X-90s…You name it, it’s worn the General Lee’s paint. That said, we’re not sure anything has been quite so abysmal as this 1987 Yugo GV that turned up on Row 52 at Buddy’s UPull near Springfield in Brookline Station, Missouri. We’re not sure if the roof is painted to match the “01” on the door, but either way, this is quite the Crusher-bound Yugo. Someone even found a “bra” to keep the bug splatters from ruining the fine paint job.
OK, we’ve done our part. Can you find a crappier General Lee?
Some bottom feeder will rescue it for an LS swap…….
People mock what they don’t understand. My wife bought me a new Yugo for my birthday in ’91, so I’d stop riding my ZX10 Ninja in snow and freezing rain during the winter. It was a great (got that, not decent, not just good) car! Like the original VW Beetle, something you could just go beat the piss out of, drive it wide open all the time, throw it onto corners, doughnuts, etc, and no one would hardly notice you out having a blast. It did something else: it changed the way I drive cars, because if you wanted to get somewhere quickly, you had to learn energy management. How to keep your momentum up without the chickenshit use of excessive power.
They were about to come out with a turbo’d model, but the factory was bombed during the war over there. (Thanks, president Clinton; for choosing the wrong side to support!) Otherwise, they’d still be sold here.
Lest you think I don’t know what a fast car is like, my first car when I was 16 was a ’64 Dodge 426 max wedge S/S’er, followed by a ’69 383 big block Dart, etc, etc. But if you can’t have fun driving a Yugo, you just aren’t a car guy. It’s just that simple!
This is wrong…on so many levels!!!!!!!!
“If you wanted to get somewhere quickly, you had to learn energy management…”
Yep. I was given a used GV as a ‘mock’ graduation present. Something so under powered forces the the driver to become better.