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Having fun - amateur autoslalom cup, Slovenia, Europe
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:21 am
by EJ22_SLO
Here, in the old continent,... we have a state cup in "autoslalom"; i have no idea how you call that autosport overseas..
Two weeks ago, the cup finished with last race in beatifull sunny (warm) weather; 75 cars showed up (wich is pretty high number for amateur cup in nation with 2 milion people
)
Think you will recognise this "european" car...
some videos:
Google:
movie1
Other movies can be found here:
http://tv.isg.si/site/filebrowser/PeschA/pescha
Photo gallery
Now, we're waiting for snow.
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:07 pm
by 555BCTurbo
Yeah...we have a very similar thing here called "autocross"
Very fun to watch and drive...
+1 for the Yugo!!
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:52 pm
by entirelyturbo
So much cool stuff in those photos. Is that a Fiat 600 Abarth? And what is done to that Renault Twingo??
How many of those are Yugos and how many are Fiats?
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:30 pm
by AWD_addict
Looks like a fun event.
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:14 pm
by Adam West
Some are Lancia's if I do believe. Round headlights...These ultra small rockets are so cool. Thanks for shareing!
Oh, and caught a taste few glimpses of a tleg wagon and sedan sounding sweeet.
Thanks man!
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:25 am
by EJ22_SLO
subyluvr2212 wrote:So much cool stuff in those photos. Is that a Fiat 600 Abarth? And what is done to that Renault Twingo??
How many of those are Yugos and how many are Fiats?
All of them are Yugos (made by Zastava in Serbia...); we have national rally Yugo class... this little cans are pretty fast (over 100 HP, light,...)
Nowdays there aren't many of them on the road anymore (broke down, rust; you all know Yugo story... don't you..
)
That little yellow fiat is (was) Fiat 750; in 60s Zastava (look above) bought licence from Fiat to make "car for the masses" in ex Yugoslavia. This one has 4cyl block from 1000ccm abarth, turbo, launch control...
Renault Twingo survived transplantation... it has Renault 5 GT turbo engine in it... accelerates like hell
That little "Lancia" is Autobianchi A112.
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:55 am
by cheno SLO
so then what is the difference between autocross and autoX ?
sorry for OT, but i must know
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:33 pm
by 206er
autoX is an abbreviation for autocross. ie the "X" is cross
saw a yugo on I25 the other day, going about 50mph and trailing a cloud of blue smoke.
I'd rock one with like a x1-9 motor and dual webers...
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:32 am
by cheno SLO
i thought that "X" was the word cross, but had to ask
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:46 pm
by entirelyturbo
EJ22_SLO wrote:All of them are Yugos (made by Zastava in Serbia...); we have national rally Yugo class... this little cans are pretty fast (over 100 HP, light,...)
Nowdays there aren't many of them on the road anymore (broke down, rust; you all know Yugo story... don't you..
)
Well, I thought Yugos were nothing more than rebadged Fiat 127's, and somehow, they got made into bigger POS's than the Fiats in the process.
EJ22_SLO wrote:Renault Twingo survived transplantation... it has Renault 5 GT turbo engine in it... accelerates like hell.
OMG that's awesome! Any idea on HP? Is that legal (here in the States, it's supposed to be illegal to put an older engine into a newer car)?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:36 pm
by EJ22_SLO
The Twingo has ~150HP...
As far as i know it's not a daily car...
About legalisation of the new engines... anything can be legalized; but the car has to pass inspection... new parts have to have safety certificate (german TŰV), lots of paperwork, time, money,... so most of the heavy changed/tuned cars are for track use only.