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The Carchive: The Skoda 1000MB.
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Libraries are great. Histories and cultures, collected and catalogued for the benefit of mankind. But all too often they have altogether insufficient car content. That’s where The Carchive comes in. I’ve still got Eastern Europe in my mind after my little trip to Slovakia, so let’s finish the week off with a look at a…
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Sitting Pretty: (Most Likely) Abandoned 1996 Lada Samara 1500i
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I drive past this off-white Lada Samara almost every day, whenever I grab my car keys and go anywhere. It’s been sitting at the parking lot adjacent to the railway station as long as I remember, and after I first paid attention to it I don’t think I’ve seen it go anywhere. It’s on summer…
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The Beauty of Treasured Junk
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The story goes like this: sometime ago the creator of Zlomnik.pl (my third favorite website ever!) found some cars on Google Maps that seemed to be scattered across a property. It wasn’t a junk yard, it wasn’t an impound yard, he had no idea what it was. Little bit of research showed that the land belonged…
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Two Trabants: One Terrible, One Topless.
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This weekend just gone saw this years Classics On The Quay, a varied gathering of wheeled machinery hosted graciously by Colchester Kawasaki. I won’t bore you with all the cars that always show up at events like these; there are only so many times I can see a Porsche Carrera GT or a Bugatti Veyron…
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Helsinki Street Sightings: 1993 Skoda Forman
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Following the Eastern European street furniture in an earlier post by our Kamil, here’s a newly Czech car doing daily service in Finland. Czechoslovakia was peacefully split into two countries on January 1st, 1993, and this car was first registered late in the year, so the odds are that the Skoda Forman here was built…
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V.I.S.I.T. – Random Cars of Warsaw
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In October of 2014 I spent a few days in Warsaw, visiting with family. I managed to find a little time to aimlessly wonder around that city that I was born in, and moved out of at the age of ten. In between the familiar buildings, tourist traps, museums, unique stores, amazing bakeries, and decent restaurants,…
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American Cars Living and Dying in Poland – Part 3
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There was a time, I am guessing sometime in the early 1990s, when container ships full of cars originally sold in the United States must have been departing Port Newark for Gdansk, Poland. Those cars varied from cheap econoboxes to limousines, to classic American land yachts. Also on these ships were European and Japanese cars that were…
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Other Eastern Bloc Cars Living and Dying in Poland
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Welcome to another edition of some-weird-cars-that-are-living-and-dying-in-Poland. As always big thanks go out to zlomnik.pl and all the readers of that very weird interesting website. Today we look at cars that we have have not covered before, such as Romanian cars, cars of what was once Yugoslavia, and some random ones that we have covered before…
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Caddy and Lincoln joined in Holy Matrimony
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Weddings are huge events in Poland. Not unlike everywhere else, everyone who is getting married wants to be driven to their wedding is something prestigious, classy, memorable, and obviously pricey. In post-communist Poland, a Rolls-Royce would be most solid choice, but there were none to be found. Mercedes would be a good alternative, if it wasn’t for the…
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Video: Hungarian car gathering for Jalopnik
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We like our Eastern European crapcans over here at Hooniverse. And so do the folks at Jalopnik, as this video right here testifies. As the Jalopnik guys, visiting Budapest, wanted to see a gathering of cars that you don’t usually catch over on the other side of the pond, they got what they asked for…
