say you won a game-show and they gave you a choice #1 a brand new yugo, #2 free tickets on your favorite rail-line #3 a cruise around the horn of africa all the way on down to austrilia #4 a vacation with a flight on a private jet to chilie
or #5 a no limits 5 day shopping spree at your favorite hobby store witch would you choose and if u choose the hobby store cause were all curious what would u wind up picking up.
so what # would you choose
personally id be going to the hobby store pick up just everything O and G scale tons of track sd90s sd80s sd70s all O and G at least 4 of each type id pick up tons of coal porters at least as many as i could fit in a cart lol id go ham while im at it i would pick up that remote control semi truck i been eyeing too.
Iād pick the 5 day spree such as yourself. Id pick up a bunch of HO track and items for my layout build. A Union Pacific Big Boy or two, my favorite locomotives. And a bunch or RC mydboss stuff fir my racing hobby.
Al
That depends on whether or not the five-day hobby store unlimited shopping spree includes Trainz.com or Menards, as those are the closest I can get to going to a real hobby store. If itās Trainz, Iād probably wind up getting a lot of tankers, a lot of modern-ish motive power, a Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson (provided one is for sale), a bunch of coal stuff, a ton of covered hoppers, and, really, anything I could get.
If Trainz.com or Menards are both excluded, then Iād like a new Yugo.
Somebody failed elementary school geography. The Horn of Africa is the protrusion of Africa encompassing Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea. The voyage around the bottom of Africa is via the Cape of Good Hope. Spelling and Writing appear to be a couple of more failures. Quit breathing the wax fumes!
ones like these are fun but also it lets u get ideas for yourself too
for example choice number five some users may be intrested in telling you their list of what theyd buy in that case u could inadvertently learn of new trains you might want to add to your own collection
choice number 2 is like that too. if people choose it you could inadvertently wind up learning about a rail-line you never exhisted
choice number 3 is one of those too it shows even though a buisness may operate in dangerous areas that customors will still use that buisness
choice #4 is a learner as well say someone does the chilie flight they might tell you a place or two they would visit you might want to learn about
choice #1 shows impulse are you willing to pick up the car without looking up the history of the make and modle.
the yugo may be new but its a russian made car only made to appese yugoslavians very cheaply.
its rumored to have a reliability longevity of 1 month of use before major problems show up with the engine.
so each one is disigned for me to inadvertently learn something new thats the point of hypertheticals
these photos are absolutely brilliant just imagine being on that cruise ship with those fireworks that close wow.
i know how hot that would be cause i used to do shows all the time just small neighborhood and home shows.
all comsumer grade but yeah when i hand lit sometimes itd get pretty intense on the firing ground. and never use a bic when hand lighting just keep 2 torch lighters in your pocket otherwise you will have a disappointed audience
Yugos were built in Yugoslavia, and had nothing to do with Russia (the design was a downsized (!) version of a Fiat 128) and was sold here to gain foreign exchange credit for Titoās government, before the wheels came off Yugoslavia as a country. Mal Bricklin had the bright idea of bringing production over on the same principle as the Subaru 360: a ānewā car so cheap and light it would be ācompetitiveā with used cars forā¦ well, letās say people with not too much money, and not too much common sense about value.
This was not the communist horror that was the Trabi, and amusingly there were considerably less powerful versions peddled to various European markets ā including convertibles (a bit like making a VW Golf cabrio body out of tinfoil and mounting it Little Rascals-style on a go-kart?). It was awful because it was built to a lowest possible price, not because it was cobbled together by moronsā¦ I confess to wondering (strictly in idle curiosity, mind you) what the Innocenti cabrio version was like, as that might actually have had QC involved in it somewhere.
There is at least one Chinese electric car currently being sold here on this business model. Reviews are much as youād expect.
maybe thats the car im thinking off im going off of 16 years of memory here i just remember my neighbors saying ānever buy a yugo because its a no-go as in it will take you around the block and leaving you walking backā
it was the yugo i was thinking with bad reliability of as far as it being russian made i think that was my neighbors being ignorant. my neighbors were rednecks also but sometimes i think they made up facts more then they did looked them up
That was still very much the era of ācommieā = bad, so Iām not surprised all those Eastern European ādemocratic peopleās republicsā often got confused. They all did seem to have Russian-style quality assurance.
The thing I could never quite figure out was why none of the Russian border states never got around to duplicating Pegaso in Spain. Weāve certainly seen very advanced car designs from some constituent areas lately, and of course Tatra thought they were already thereā¦
(watch for the feet at 2:10)
One of the acknowledged reasons for the utter failure of the common British automobile industry was reliance on cheaper Soviet-bloc steel, with soft-coal sulfur assuring drastic rusting with astounding speed. When very thin sections and indifferent undercoating were ābuilt to a priceā, you had, well, you had the same problems as with a Fiat 128. Only worseā¦
There was never any question that the Yugo was anything other than an awful excuse for a car that was hard to keep running. But you could probably have said the same about that other Commie import, the FAUR LDH125 Quarter Horseā¦ we used to joke that was the maximum achievable power when kicking carsā¦
