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te has one rescued from a scrapyardHave just bought one 
There are 2 left on the road in the UK, I'm trying to track them down. There's a handful more on a SORN. I've tracked down one in an unknown museum, one recently saved from a scrapyard and soon to be renovated, an orange show standard car and mine: a recent Polish import soon to be in season 10 of Spooks...
There are 2 left on the road in the UK, I'm trying to track them down. There's a handful more on a SORN. I've tracked down one in an unknown museum, one recently saved from a scrapyard and soon to be renovated, an orange show standard car and mine: a recent Polish import soon to be in season 10 of Spooks...SambaS said:
Have just bought one There are 2 left on the road in the UK, I'm trying to track them down. There's a handful more on a SORN. I've tracked down one in an unknown museum, one recently saved from a scrapyard and soon to be renovated, an orange show standard car and mine: a recent Polish import soon to be in season 10 of Spooks...
I hear later Polonezes ended up with a Rover K-Series under the bonnet, I always wondered whether a VVC or turbo conversion would be sensible... There are 2 left on the road in the UK, I'm trying to track them down. There's a handful more on a SORN. I've tracked down one in an unknown museum, one recently saved from a scrapyard and soon to be renovated, an orange show standard car and mine: a recent Polish import soon to be in season 10 of Spooks...Remember getting a minicab home one night, many years ago and a Polonez turned up. When I was growing up, my Dad had a couple of Wartburgs, so I wasn't completely anti-east European cars, but I remember the Polonez being pretty awful.
A unique combination of dreadful handling coupled with an appalling ride.
Although I was a little the worse for wear at the time!
A unique combination of dreadful handling coupled with an appalling ride.
Although I was a little the worse for wear at the time!
This was my response to the 'worst car you have ever driven' thread a few months ago;
Anyway here's a picture to remind you how awful they were
Blackwedge said:
FSO Polonez. Given the choice between driving another one and beating myself to death with a mallet I won't be choosing the car
I stand by it!Anyway here's a picture to remind you how awful they were
Basically a fiat 125 chassis underneath (including it's 4wheel disc brakes!!,) add in a rejected fiat body design and a hopeless engine and et voila you have a polonez - the later uk cars were called caro's and came with either some hopeless petrol engine or the psa non turbo 1.9 diesel lump they also did a weird pickup truck with a tipper back on it iirc
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