@@cybersilver5816 150 meter per minute is ~9 KMH, they would have a problem with that, but it would be because you are going too slow to use the freeway
my dad's first big highway drive was in one of these, back in the day when eastern european highways were made out of panels of concrete. there were five guys crammed in this beast, and the distance between the wheels was exactly the same as the length of the concrete panels. when recounting this tale, my dad always ends it with "upon arrival, our balls were thoroughly tenderized by the sweet marriage between soviet infrastructure and polish engineering"
The best combination for road trip stories! We used to have a polish potato in bright orange. His name was carrot and he hated our German tiny town cobble stone roads. It was great
I'm from Poland, home of this beauty. I remember when I was around 16 and riding my 50 cc, two-stroke engine beast of the scooter. I saw one of this creates, driving around 40-45 km/h in my home town. I was doing around 50. My scooter could go only up to 70 km/h but still, I was going faster. I started to overtake. When a guy behind the wheel saw me in his window, he floored it. I thought to myself: Now you're starting to accelerate. When I'm overtaking you? No freaking way! So, I want for it. It was slowest race of my life. We both did out best. I could see it in his eyes. I was faster.
"That doesn't sound good" is just how you can describe anything when it comes to a Maluch. But there's still something heartwarming when you randomly see one on the street and are left wondering what exactly is it running on - original parts? New parts? A jug of cooking oil and a piece of wood? Two hamsters? You'll never know.
To give you guys an insight of what this car was to polish people back in the 70s and 80s, it was everything. Basically if you were able to get one (because it wasn't just money that could buy this little car - you needed permission, a special bonus for example from your workplace) you were the luckiest one in your neighbourhood. So, because it was the only car available, it would be a family car for most. I know many stories of people driving this car for their vacation, 5 people in the car with luggage on top of the roof. Many drove it from Poland to Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Hungary (we're talking 1000+ km). What's funniest, the car was really unreliable, so people used to tell jokes and anecdotes about it. One goes: "I was driving through Hungary in my Fiat, and I saw another one with polish registrations on the side of the road, with a man repairing something in the engine. So I stopped and asked the guy what had happened and if he needed any help or spare parts. He answered: 'Oh don't worry it's nothing serious, just head gasket', I am nearly done " Probably the story is real, because polish drivers would always carry lots of spare parts and all the necessary tools, just to quickly repair the car if something happened.
It was easy to repair, but it was almost certain you gonna break down on a long summer roadtrip to a different country. Being a driver back then was synanomous with being a hobby mechanic.
Dude I drove the car a few times now and it's the sketchiest car I've ever driven, the steering wheel is uneven and you constantly have to correct the wheel in order to drive straight. Also at higher speed it misfires which is hilarious. And yes, it does get hot and it's loud as he'll inside. But I love it. One of the most authentic driving experiences I ever had
He's basically a race car now, I expect in the next episode he will be getting massive aero upgrades, racing slicks and a tiny Tony sized turbocharger.
8:03 math time: the original tires on a Renault Trafic are LT205/65R16's with an overall circumference of 2.113 m. If the tires are moving exactly 0.2 revolutions per frame at 60 fps then one can deduce the van was moving at 0.4226 meters per frame, or 25.356 meters per second, or 91.2816 km/h when Tony overtook it at a breakneck pace of 96 and falling
These small engines can run flat out near the red line for years, there just isn't enough happening to go wrong. It's everything it can do, but it'll do it happily
In Silesian University of Technology there is a mad lad of doctor (he teaches welding technology there) that decided around year 2000 to put in his Niki handmade, done by himself, TITANIUM valves, modify his pistons and cylinders to be as light, durable and accurately made as possible and tune it to perfection. That Niki was freakin' able to achieve 200 km/h XD He told us this story during classes about welding exotic materials. When he sold this car, the new owner had it in one piece only for a week. It had crashed on a tree, because this car had STOCK wheels and suspention, and after hitting conciderable amount of speed he did not like to take turns at all XD
@El Cactuar thank you for comment :D I taught, that "kph" means just "kilometers per hour". It should have been kmph or km/h. As you can see, I am not perfect english speaker - I was wrong. I've edited my comment, thanks for sugestion :D
@@steelfox1448 yes, now I know that now :D As a little adnotation, km/h is also correct, because this is basically k - kilo, m - meter, / - divided by, h - hour xD Kilometers per hour xD
My grandpa has a green 126p 650E, and he uses it as his daily. He usually drives it around 100km a day, going to a village and back. Been doing that for around 30 years, and the car is still going strong
@@montech5647 the Fiat 126 was also developed in Poland by the company FSM for the Polish market as the Polski Fiat 126 or Fiat 126p otherwise known as the Maluch which translates to "little one" It was also imported to Australia as the Fiat-FSM Niki, the car seen in this video. You can notice the FSM badge on the front.
two hardcore australians laughing their assess off about how awful the car they’re driving is while flattening out and losing speed on a highway is exactly what i needed
Had a fukin corolla that me and a mate thrashed running on 2 cylinders and we sent it on the highway and we couldn’t even push it to 90, most fun I’ve ever had hearing the bastard scream trying to reach 85
Naw, guys. Australia doesn't even have a specified "side" to drive on. It's just kind of whatever idiot in the morning happens to be on that side, determines it for the day! 😊 (I'm obviously bullshutting, but ya gotta admit... that does sound like the kind of "zero-fucks given" attitude they'd have downunda! 😅)
There are big hills everywhere, mate. Here in W.A. we have the Darling Escarpment, which provides us with Greenmount Hill and Red Hill, both of which have a major freight route up/down them, the Great Eastern Highway goes up Greenmount, and Toodyay Road goes up Red hill. Either road is an excellent way to check your ignition timing on a hot Summers day, by driving up them and listening carefully for pre-ignition (pinging).
I'm not from SA, but would that be the A15? I found the Roundy Raisin so I assume a bit to the north of that is The Hill. If that's it, that looks pretty rough. We have one highway here in Canberra that is similar but doesn't seem quite as extreme, and my old Pulsie with worn rings could barely do that. I think it'd just throw in the towel if it saw that bad boy.
In poland we used these to drive across the country, about 800km, sometimes in 35C heat. As long as you have a 10mm socket, a flathead screwdriver and a piece of string to hold the engine hatch slightly ajar, it makes the trip no problem.
9 liters per 100km is roughly equivalent to 25 miles per gallon in freedom measurements. Considering most American freedom trucks run around 12-15mpg (or 18 liters per 100km), I’d say Tony is doing alright.
0:51 “it literally looks like a toy on here” I literally could not breathe when I realized how true that was, like omg, wade, you and James are absolute legends, this is the best journey I’ve ever been on
He doest live like that, he's essentially cosplaying as living like that Once he had to buy an old shitty car and do repairs himself because he could not afford anything else Now he imports a shitty car expensively, imports specific parts expensively and does repairs himself because he enjoys it. While owning at least 2 more cars Same with the ipods. Once he had to fix em to make a profit. Now he does it for funsies
@El Cactuar not everyone lives in Freedom land where everything is measured in bald eagles and hamburgers. Kph= Kilometers per hour. How hard is that to grasp??
I remember when I first drove to Adelaide a few years ago, the hill in and out of the city is actually completely insane. I wasn't convinced the mighty Tarago was going to make it, but as all Aussies know, you never doubt a Tarago
I love old engines. They rev limit themselves by floating valves and they prevent you from exceeding cylinder pressure and cooling limits by detonating. They'll do it all day long and might only start leaking when they're up to temperature, prompting you to always change the oil by topping off continually. Wonderful stuff.
@@grdprojektThe springs probably but also just the mass, nowadays everything is engineered as filigrane, minuscule and lightweight as possible, much easier to accelerate/decelerate quickly
I remember my dad doing 120 (well according to the speedometer), on a highway in former Yugoslavia when we were going to visit my grandma who lived 600 km away from us. My uncle in the brand new Golf set off at the same time as us and we beat him there by half an hour. That car was the best car my dad had. Easy to work on. Could carry two grown adults and construction material on the roof that easily outweighed the weight of the car.
Imagine if you will: three teenagers in a Pontiac Firefly, one of whom had also included all their earthly possessions to return home for Christmas holidays, 900kms due North from Toronto, Ontario. We nearly died so many times, especially on the last two hour leg through the ice storm. Say what you will; if you take a trip in a nugget you either die or come home with memories.
@@SuperUltimateLP I'm a learner still getting comfortable doing 100 in a dutch highway lmao I want one of these so bad when I get some savings and a better job
As a long time owner of two of them i can confirm it can go 100kmph, it takes some time but it can reach it. Also judging by the logo on steering wheel it came from factory that my dad use to work at.
I felt the same amount of tension watching Tony reach 100kmph as I did watching Tom cruise push a jet to 10gs in top gun maverick I cheered when the mission was successful
These videos remind me of my 1991 Acura Legend and how me and my dad could always send it somewhere to get it properly fixed, but we just order cheap parts and fix it ourselves. A couple years ago it got in a minor car crash. We just brought it home, straightened out the frame by hand and threw in a new radiator. Runs as well as it looks, and it looks gorgeous.
I would happily fly myself to Australia and live in a cardboard box in the outback just for a chance to do car stuff with you guys. Much love from your local Florida man
@D for all of us mate. Portugal here on the other stretch of the world is suffering the same situation. Living cost has raised 400% in the last 20 years, pachecks have barely raised 50%. Nowadays, it is actually impossible (not difficult, impossible) to live by yourself. You either go share a house with strangers and live in a literal room as a grown, working adult, or you live with your parents. The AVERAGE rent is almost as high as the average salary. It's fucking absurd.
@D I myself have to get a driver's license for heavy vehicles and specific training for carrying hazardous materials in order to get a proper paying job, which by themselves is already obscenely expensive. Just so you can understand how ridiculous it is, our average pay is around 800-850 euro after tax, meanwhile I don't remember the last time I saw a decent, clean house for less than 700 euro. Keep in mind this is not counting basic survival needs such as food, energy and clothing. Keep also in mind that we have Europe's most expensive electricity, and one of the world's highest gas prices. It's gotten so stupid, so obscenely imbalanced that Lisbon was recently considered the third most expensive place IN THE WORLD to live in, relative to it's citizens' earnings. I genuinely can't wait for the day the riots break out.
I had a mid 80's Opel Corsa nugget sedan some years back, and the struggles Tony had with getting up hills at any speed other than "meh" gave me some fond an car flashbacks. Man I miss that nugget, the old Maluch makes it seem like a Maybach in my memories.
That engine has so much potential. Here in italy there’re entire workshops specialized in tuning those, reaching 40,50hp. And if you don’t wanna die, better equip front disc brakes
Put one of those tiny superchargers on it 😅. I think they’re built for jet skis but are great on 2 and 3 cylinder engines. She MIGHT do 90 with one of them bad boys
I never thought I’d spend part of my free hour waiting for my next college class cheering for a nugget car to go 100km/h while eating chick fil a breakfast and then getting excited when said nugget car hits said 100km/h, but here we are
One of my friends had an old fiat that really struggled uphill on the highway. When we used it for trips everyone would cheer whenever we made it up any hill. It was beautiful.
i get the same jank feeling from my 1997 forester, although my car dosent have the problems yours does. theres a feeling of joy with older cars that makes them so much more fun to drive, and also when you repair it yourself it gives you that giddy feeling of "i made this car go" Great vid mate, cant wait to see more shenanigans with your cars
I still miss the gold old days when the old Southern express way was a 1 way freeway that flipped direction. That is such a South Australian thing Way to go Tony. Surely the next step is a trip accross to Melbourne?
This is so great. I've been following your OG DankPods channel when I was living in Canada. Moved to Adelaide 5 months ago and now I you driving this around a minute from my house when you took the Noarlunga exit. Can't believe we'd ever cross paths.
This video made me nervous, lol. The amount of times my prior car broke down in places, including running out of gas on the interstate when the needle had one of its moments of getting stuck on full, are countless. So many times I would pray to just make it home, make it to work, make it to the store. And you guys are pushing this old baby to its limits for FUN. I was nervous for you, but at least you had a James to assist if anything did go wrong 😂
Had an old '99 Hilux with a 3.0 N/A Diesel. Pretty sure the engine had serious issues (ended in a scrapyard after a year due to total engine failure) but that did 0-100 in 47s which is close to Tony's. Woulda loved a drag race. And yes, trucks and buses beat me going up hills.
Those 5L engines are pretty durable, I'm surprised you managed to blow it up... My grandpa has a 2.5L N/A (2L-II) with a 5 speed manual and it goes 0-100 in about 20 seconds, and that car has like 450k on the odometer. That engine must've been running on 2 cylinders if that's the case...
8:20 this made me have way too much feelings for some crappy car at the other side of the world. very happy that tony get's to see the world again in his old days.
With good carb tuning, proper ignition timing, good oil and everything, 126p is capable on cruising in 100-110 km/h easily, and 120-123 km/h top speed - at least the 650cc. The 600cc is just a tiny little bit slower, but has far better fuel economy. This was our family car for over 15 years, and we drove cross-continent drives in Europe.
My dad had one of these when I was a kid, the madman swapped a palio engine into the little beast and it became a rocket, so much of a weapon that when he sold it, the new owner totaled it in a few months running it into a guardrail. Poor little fridge, had a good run
completely unrelated to anything but also thank you for including Tony at full revs on the hill as a constant sound because my audio was being funky and it was a perfect test for what I needed. Anywho love ya, Dank
As an American, I felt about ready to shout "get out of the left lane!" before remembering you're living in British prison and drive on left, so your left lane is actually the slow lane after all.
@@jamiejam9976 There is absolutely nothing being done to deal with the left lane lounging in USA. Even trucks do it. Here in Poland the hierarchy of speed was always there, but to expand on that, in 2023 a new law was made and now the semi-trucks are not allowed to overtake unless there is a great amount of speed between them. And since the semis are all capped to a similar speed now they just keep right and it sometimes looks like a road train. It greatly helps when going above 160 km/h in a car, because there is way less situations when you need to slam on the brakes to suddenly match 88-92 km/h the trucks are doing.
Back when they were first laying railroads for steam locomotives, there was some worry that the dangerously high speed (60 MILES PER HOUR, absurdly fast) would cause spontaneous hysterectomies in female passengers. Didn't happen, but watching this thing get up to speed I can see how they thought it might.
I had one of these as my first car, the max speed on the speedo was 80 mph and I regularly had the needle bouncing off the end driving round the m25 in the UK. Good Times 😜
Seeing this man doing fun stuff with his car makes me feel good, especially after my 2015 Sonota kicked into Limp Home mode after the same check engine light kicked on even after I got the entire engine replaced to fix the issue lmao. *pain*
Say what you want about our old eastern european crap but it will barely run for years and take abuse like it's nothing and when something finally gives out you just replace the part within 10 minutes. Can't do that on a fancy new car now can you?
This is why I'm afraid to touch new cars, your limp mode is probably cuz a fuse or some sensor went out, or something else idk but I'll stick to my old VW for now
@@User-cb4jm They will and do break down. Though it's a Toyota so it will probably snap in half from rust first but they're not as well engineered as you americans think.
10:41 To keep the structural integrity of this vehicle intact as it travels at Mach 3, it is vital that all titanium panels have a loose fit. The waste heat and exterior friction result thermal expansion; the vehicle generally heats up rectifying all panels' fit to flush. This results in vehicles like the Tony Kowalski and SR 71 Blackbird leaking fuel when idle.
You know its a good car when the 0-60 is measured in minutes
💀
and you probably mean 0-60 kph and not mph. Lol!
"Yeah dude, I was pulling 150 on the freeway today, even got pulled over for dangerous driving, it was nuts!"
"Kph?"
"Nah, meters per minute."
thats how the best cars are
@@cybersilver5816
150 meter per minute is ~9 KMH, they would have a problem with that, but it would be because you are going too slow to use the freeway
Tony is an absolute beast that can do 400kmh but he just doesn't want to do it
Hes the car from forza horizon that has been swapped and maxed out :0
Indeed.
He’s just tired give him some rest and he’ll be good
*Can't ne arsed
a spoiler will make it go faster =)
Well done, Tony. You show those cars with their fancy "engines" and "quality control".
Honestly who even cares about engines, so overrated
@@hahaahah7214 Tesla fanboy alert?
@@mohammedattal8887 You know electric cars still have engines, right? They have electric engines.
@@dragos240alt 😭😭😭
@@dragos240alt they're technically motors not engines
my dad's first big highway drive was in one of these, back in the day when eastern european highways were made out of panels of concrete. there were five guys crammed in this beast, and the distance between the wheels was exactly the same as the length of the concrete panels. when recounting this tale, my dad always ends it with "upon arrival, our balls were thoroughly tenderized by the sweet marriage between soviet infrastructure and polish engineering"
The best combination for road trip stories!
We used to have a polish potato in bright orange. His name was carrot and he hated our German tiny town cobble stone roads. It was great
the comments on these vids are unmatched
polish balls
@@tylern6420 Make 'em shine
@@gangstagarfOnly the _BEST_ of the internet flock to Dank's videos! 🤘
This is probably the most emotionally invested I've ever been in a car. Well done Tony, you're a legend.
Believe me, drive a Trabant. :D
I'm from Poland, home of this beauty. I remember when I was around 16 and riding my 50 cc, two-stroke engine beast of the scooter. I saw one of this creates, driving around 40-45 km/h in my home town. I was doing around 50. My scooter could go only up to 70 km/h but still, I was going faster. I started to overtake.
When a guy behind the wheel saw me in his window, he floored it.
I thought to myself: Now you're starting to accelerate. When I'm overtaking you? No freaking way! So, I want for it. It was slowest race of my life. We both did out best. I could see it in his eyes.
I was faster.
LMFAO
this is the comment of all time
Lol best comment
You know its a good car when a scooter can overtake it
This sounds like a story Wade would use to test the mic on a nugget lmao
8:10 I like how the camera matches the wheel of the van makes it look like Tony is an absolute snail barely overtaking a stationary van
Funniest shit I've ever seen
This is the exact comment I was looking for
Yea that was so weird looking it’s hilarious
Yeah it looks like it’s sliding down the road lol
I love how the van immediately reovertakes Tony
Imagine getting pulled over because you’re speeding in a nugget lol
Worth
"sir do you understand how fast you're going on that ramp?"
Um, 0 kmh?
Can't get pulled over if the police can't catch you. I've seen some vile shit being done to the God Engine which is the Fiat 126p.
So that happend to a friend of mine a while ago😂
Do you know how slow you were going?
100kph... that's how fast it can go.
"That doesn't sound good" is just how you can describe anything when it comes to a Maluch. But there's still something heartwarming when you randomly see one on the street and are left wondering what exactly is it running on - original parts? New parts? A jug of cooking oil and a piece of wood? Two hamsters? You'll never know.
Under rated comment.
M a l u c h 🤏😎
Maybe the driver is just Fred Flintstoning it lmao
@@devinmcleod3395 with how low the car is? Might as well be Flintstoning it
@@Mothyave they'd hit their knees on the roof if they tried
To give you guys an insight of what this car was to polish people back in the 70s and 80s, it was everything. Basically if you were able to get one (because it wasn't just money that could buy this little car - you needed permission, a special bonus for example from your workplace) you were the luckiest one in your neighbourhood. So, because it was the only car available, it would be a family car for most. I know many stories of people driving this car for their vacation, 5 people in the car with luggage on top of the roof. Many drove it from Poland to Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, Hungary (we're talking 1000+ km). What's funniest, the car was really unreliable, so people used to tell jokes and anecdotes about it. One goes: "I was driving through Hungary in my Fiat, and I saw another one with polish registrations on the side of the road, with a man repairing something in the engine. So I stopped and asked the guy what had happened and if he needed any help or spare parts. He answered: 'Oh don't worry it's nothing serious, just head gasket', I am nearly done " Probably the story is real, because polish drivers would always carry lots of spare parts and all the necessary tools, just to quickly repair the car if something happened.
It was easy to repair, but it was almost certain you gonna break down on a long summer roadtrip to a different country. Being a driver back then was synanomous with being a hobby mechanic.
Two things I have learned about your vehicles:
1. Van is immune to shoe.
2. Tony is not immune to detonation.
Old babys live forever
8:13 the tires on the van be like 🗿🗿🗿
@@Gregory_12 LMAOOOOO
My dad has this very same car, he drove it on the german highway for 3 hours over 100 km/h
The scariest drive he's ever done
what a brave man
autobahn with a fiat niki is like running through the hood with a blue and red bandana on
Dude I drove the car a few times now and it's the sketchiest car I've ever driven, the steering wheel is uneven and you constantly have to correct the wheel in order to drive straight. Also at higher speed it misfires which is hilarious. And yes, it does get hot and it's loud as he'll inside. But I love it. One of the most authentic driving experiences I ever had
tony can go faster than is allowed on parts of the autobahn that don't have speed limits
lol because he was the slowest car on them? :D
He's basically a race car now, I expect in the next episode he will be getting massive aero upgrades, racing slicks and a tiny Tony sized turbocharger.
there's videos of turbocharged brothers of Tony and they sound amazing
"Pushing Tony Around Bathurst" will be the next video
Tonycharger
Don't forget some stiffer valve springs to solve that valve bounce issue
non turbo fiat 126p 650ccm engine with 76PS
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It's always heartwarming to see an animal rehabilitated and running with its brethren in its natural habitat again
8:03 math time: the original tires on a Renault Trafic are LT205/65R16's with an overall circumference of 2.113 m. If the tires are moving exactly 0.2 revolutions per frame at 60 fps then one can deduce the van was moving at
0.4226 meters per frame, or
25.356 meters per second, or
91.2816 km/h
when Tony overtook it at a breakneck pace of 96 and falling
These small engines can run flat out near the red line for years, there just isn't enough happening to go wrong. It's everything it can do, but it'll do it happily
Tony wasn't happy
Tony was screaming in rage and despair.
If this is doing it happy, what's doing it sad?
@@DimT670 not running at all
Happily making you go deaf.
Dank shouting "WE'RE A CAR!!! WE'RE IN TRAFFIC AND WE'RE A CAR!!!" after Tony reaches 100 made me wheeze
Graduated from "An car" to the glorious title of "A car"
9:50 that was 40 seconds to 100kmh and that was with a rolling start. Absolute beast
0-100: yes
I think officially they're 42 seconds, so that's quite impressive :3
That's a 4.0 decasecond car 👌
You could market that with small text..
The factory 0-100km run is over a minute with 1 person on board and empty gas tank😉
@@minidreschi2 0-100: maybe
In Silesian University of Technology there is a mad lad of doctor (he teaches welding technology there) that decided around year 2000 to put in his Niki handmade, done by himself, TITANIUM valves, modify his pistons and cylinders to be as light, durable and accurately made as possible and tune it to perfection. That Niki was freakin' able to achieve 200 km/h XD He told us this story during classes about welding exotic materials. When he sold this car, the new owner had it in one piece only for a week. It had crashed on a tree, because this car had STOCK wheels and suspention, and after hitting conciderable amount of speed he did not like to take turns at all XD
@El Cactuar thank you for comment :D I taught, that "kph" means just "kilometers per hour". It should have been kmph or km/h. As you can see, I am not perfect english speaker - I was wrong. I've edited my comment, thanks for sugestion :D
@@danielmichalski94kph is actually correct Kilometers Per Hour, it is widely used
@@steelfox1448 yes, now I know that now :D As a little adnotation, km/h is also correct, because this is basically k - kilo, m - meter, / - divided by, h - hour xD Kilometers per hour xD
That engine is probably the most valuable thing in that whole car.
My grandpa has a green 126p 650E, and he uses it as his daily. He usually drives it around 100km a day, going to a village and back. Been doing that for around 30 years, and the car is still going strong
They don't build like that no more. There is a reason this type of car is still somewhat being produced the same. The polish way
Oh wow - what mileage has he got on it?
@@lbsiuk unknown, considering it's old and has been used every day i think it did well over half a mil
70s Polish-Italian engineering at its finest
Polish? Please, explain...
@@montech5647 it's a fiat 126p p meaning polish
@@montech5647 the Fiat 126 was also developed in Poland by the company FSM for the Polish market as the Polski Fiat 126 or Fiat 126p otherwise known as the Maluch which translates to "little one"
It was also imported to Australia as the Fiat-FSM Niki, the car seen in this video. You can notice the FSM badge on the front.
@@JoCaTen Thank you.
@@montech5647 no problem.
two hardcore australians laughing their assess off about how awful the car they’re driving is while flattening out and losing speed on a highway is exactly what i needed
as a polish guy i'm so proud. it's a wonderfull piece of design just begging not to be scrapped.
Had a fukin corolla that me and a mate thrashed running on 2 cylinders and we sent it on the highway and we couldn’t even push it to 90, most fun I’ve ever had hearing the bastard scream trying to reach 85
@@scottyiguess4286 Is it still alive? Corollas seem to be immortal.
Assess? You mean asses?
666 likes. [X-Files theme.]
"O no, a slight incline!!" The words of a true nug.
My dad's story: ~700km trip through Poland in "maluch" took 17 hours and included replacing broken axle joint :D
As an American who is learning to drive, all this footage of left-side roads scare and bewilder me. I love it
Such a mood, I am learning too, and out roads are right-sided, so every road and turn in this video feels a bit panic-inducing
Naw, guys. Australia doesn't even have a specified "side" to drive on.
It's just kind of whatever idiot in the morning happens to be on that side, determines it for the day! 😊
(I'm obviously bullshutting, but ya gotta admit... that does sound like the kind of "zero-fucks given" attitude they'd have downunda! 😅)
Only South Aussies know how much of an achievement that hill is in Tony. Tony deserves an award honestly.
There are big hills everywhere, mate. Here in W.A. we have the Darling Escarpment, which provides us with Greenmount Hill and Red Hill, both of which have a major freight route up/down them, the Great Eastern Highway goes up Greenmount, and Toodyay Road goes up Red hill.
Either road is an excellent way to check your ignition timing on a hot Summers day, by driving up them and listening carefully for pre-ignition (pinging).
Amen. My Magna barely gets up there haha
As a fellow south Aussie, my 626 struggles with that same hill.
I'm not from SA, but would that be the A15? I found the Roundy Raisin so I assume a bit to the north of that is The Hill. If that's it, that looks pretty rough. We have one highway here in Canberra that is similar but doesn't seem quite as extreme, and my old Pulsie with worn rings could barely do that. I think it'd just throw in the towel if it saw that bad boy.
In poland we used these to drive across the country, about 800km, sometimes in 35C heat. As long as you have a 10mm socket, a flathead screwdriver and a piece of string to hold the engine hatch slightly ajar, it makes the trip no problem.
Preferably with roofrack loaded with suitcases :).
For me, bring additional towel and a bunch of spare clothes (1948 Jeep Willys with leaky soft top)
It isn't a matter of can or can't, it's a matter of how long do you have?
stocking pfp
Honestly would consider an engine hatch delete if I was in that position
9 liters per 100km is roughly equivalent to 25 miles per gallon in freedom measurements. Considering most American freedom trucks run around 12-15mpg (or 18 liters per 100km), I’d say Tony is doing alright.
You have to compare within its own weight class though.
My 2000kilo saab gets 8L/100km
We Skeem ~ I like that "freedom measurements"! Here in The Great White North we have to put up with celcius, centimeters, kilometers & litres.
my bmw getting like 12L/100km 💀
@@breadone_ *sad rusty E36 sounds*
0:51 “it literally looks like a toy on here”
I literally could not breathe when I realized how true that was, like omg, wade, you and James are absolute legends, this is the best journey I’ve ever been on
Tony going uphill sounds like a WW1 biplane and I love him all the more for it
I like how the wheels of the van were in line almost with the FPS of the camera , that's was pretty sweet. 8:10
It's like watching a car move without the wheels moving.
the only van Tony could overtake was a stationary one
Isnt that something to do with the shutter speed?
@@demarcuscousinsthe65th yes , in my context I mean frames captured per second.
NPC car with broken animations
I love how Wade isn’t used to being as affluent as he is so he just lives like he’s roughing it like the old days.
Why would you ever want to do anything different? This is heaps more fun and literal fractions of the cost
@@joshuad1716 this is true, however I like nice things. For example, I just bought a gaming computer. With a 3060.
He doest live like that, he's essentially cosplaying as living like that
Once he had to buy an old shitty car and do repairs himself because he could not afford anything else
Now he imports a shitty car expensively, imports specific parts expensively and does repairs himself because he enjoys it. While owning at least 2 more cars
Same with the ipods. Once he had to fix em to make a profit. Now he does it for funsies
@Wagger.98 xD
@@corn.c0b7244 wade does have insanely njce shit, have you ever seen his man cave? It’s all about balance lol
100kph always feels faster in a rusty bucket than any other car
Its always more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.
@@sinuslebastian6366 Well into some bullshit happens
@El Cactuar Kilometers mate
@El Cactuar mate have you never mate talked to people (mates) mate?
@El Cactuar not everyone lives in Freedom land where everything is measured in bald eagles and hamburgers.
Kph= Kilometers per hour. How hard is that to grasp??
I love how the starter fluid is literally called "Start Ya Bastard"
I remember when I first drove to Adelaide a few years ago, the hill in and out of the city is actually completely insane. I wasn't convinced the mighty Tarago was going to make it, but as all Aussies know, you never doubt a Tarago
I'm rebuilding my own 1990s nugget, and seeing your videos always inspires me to continue. Thanks!
You too can struggle to reach 100kmph! Huzzah!
The way he talks about Tony like a proud father really adds to the motivation
I love old engines. They rev limit themselves by floating valves and they prevent you from exceeding cylinder pressure and cooling limits by detonating. They'll do it all day long and might only start leaking when they're up to temperature, prompting you to always change the oil by topping off continually. Wonderful stuff.
Haha yeah they’ll detonate all they want till they have one big detonation and bend a rod
a bit serious question, does valve float happen because of the weak spring used in older cars or just aged springs or something else?
@@Chevsilverado never old motors the strongest never blow they only huff a lil
@@George-pl7eu ok
@@grdprojektThe springs probably but also just the mass, nowadays everything is engineered as filigrane, minuscule and lightweight as possible, much easier to accelerate/decelerate quickly
I remember my dad doing 120 (well according to the speedometer), on a highway in former Yugoslavia when we were going to visit my grandma who lived 600 km away from us. My uncle in the brand new Golf set off at the same time as us and we beat him there by half an hour. That car was the best car my dad had. Easy to work on. Could carry two grown adults and construction material on the roof that easily outweighed the weight of the car.
I've never been so attached to a car that's not even mine before. I love it.
Imagine if you will: three teenagers in a Pontiac Firefly, one of whom had also included all their earthly possessions to return home for Christmas holidays, 900kms due North from Toronto, Ontario.
We nearly died so many times, especially on the last two hour leg through the ice storm.
Say what you will; if you take a trip in a nugget you either die or come home with memories.
Pontiac is 3,8 m long, 1,6m wide, 1,35m high. Tony is 3,1 m long, 1,35m wide, 1,34 high. Pontiac is a limo, compared to Tony.
@@bengacz its a nugget in the spirit, can also mean s kinda crappy car, plus the pontiac really isnt much bigger than tony
100kph in a normal vw golf feels fast I cannot imagine how it would feel in this thing
Death
Does it ?
I mean I'm german and drive a mK V no problem on the Autobahn 😅
@@SuperUltimateLP I'm a learner still getting comfortable doing 100 in a dutch highway lmao I want one of these so bad when I get some savings and a better job
@@Suzumi-kun that's explaines the comment ;)
As a learner that's completely normal!
Another german here. My Golf MK7 GTD goes to 240 km/h, and it feels kinda okay.
200 no probs tho, a golf is very easy to drive at that speed
Little Tony just chuggin’ along happy as a clam and he even made it back to the warehouse. What a gem
As a long time owner of two of them i can confirm it can go 100kmph, it takes some time but it can reach it. Also judging by the logo on steering wheel it came from factory that my dad use to work at.
wade is the guy you think is weird at first but he turns out to be the coolest you’ve ever met
I'm proud to be Polish in these moments.
Tony sounds more like an old boat than a car sometimes. I love them to death.
I felt the same amount of tension watching Tony reach 100kmph as I did watching Tom cruise push a jet to 10gs in top gun maverick I cheered when the mission was successful
No joke I did too. Actually I didn't even cheer when I watched the film
He's the fastest man alive
These videos remind me of my 1991 Acura Legend and how me and my dad could always send it somewhere to get it properly fixed, but we just order cheap parts and fix it ourselves. A couple years ago it got in a minor car crash. We just brought it home, straightened out the frame by hand and threw in a new radiator. Runs as well as it looks, and it looks gorgeous.
Tony's best years are behind him. But truly I say: "This was his finest hour."
Brings a tear to my eye. How far Tony has come
I would happily fly myself to Australia and live in a cardboard box in the outback just for a chance to do car stuff with you guys.
Much love from your local Florida man
@D for all of us mate. Portugal here on the other stretch of the world is suffering the same situation. Living cost has raised 400% in the last 20 years, pachecks have barely raised 50%. Nowadays, it is actually impossible (not difficult, impossible) to live by yourself. You either go share a house with strangers and live in a literal room as a grown, working adult, or you live with your parents. The AVERAGE rent is almost as high as the average salary. It's fucking absurd.
@D I myself have to get a driver's license for heavy vehicles and specific training for carrying hazardous materials in order to get a proper paying job, which by themselves is already obscenely expensive. Just so you can understand how ridiculous it is, our average pay is around 800-850 euro after tax, meanwhile I don't remember the last time I saw a decent, clean house for less than 700 euro. Keep in mind this is not counting basic survival needs such as food, energy and clothing. Keep also in mind that we have Europe's most expensive electricity, and one of the world's highest gas prices. It's gotten so stupid, so obscenely imbalanced that Lisbon was recently considered the third most expensive place IN THE WORLD to live in, relative to it's citizens' earnings. I genuinely can't wait for the day the riots break out.
I had a mid 80's Opel Corsa nugget sedan some years back, and the struggles Tony had with getting up hills at any speed other than "meh" gave me some fond an car flashbacks. Man I miss that nugget, the old Maluch makes it seem like a Maybach in my memories.
My childhood is the sound of one of these slowly cranking in the winter and not starting.
That engine has so much potential.
Here in italy there’re entire workshops specialized in tuning those, reaching 40,50hp. And if you don’t wanna die, better equip front disc brakes
9:14 I love how Tony sounds like a super car as he pulls away from the slip road, good job on this journey dank, James and of course, Tony
That frame rate match for the overtaken vans wheels at 8:12 is *chef's kiss*
S A T I S F Y I N G
At first I thought he had spinners lol
Achievement: You now have a race car. And it’s a frank transporter🐍
Achievement unlocked:
Officially An Car
That was an absolute rollercoaster, I was rooting for Tony so much during the video. What a trooper
Australia really knows how to do signs. Just "City"
Put one of those tiny superchargers on it 😅. I think they’re built for jet skis but are great on 2 and 3 cylinder engines. She MIGHT do 90 with one of them bad boys
The turbo on its own could make it do that
@@techno1561 yeah... now he has to wait for the turbo lag
Turbo on a 2cyl tho?
We in Poland have for this fiat accessory called kowalski turbine. It was supposed to get extra power but it was just a hoax.
About to make those pistons become supersonic bois
I never thought I’d spend part of my free hour waiting for my next college class cheering for a nugget car to go 100km/h while eating chick fil a breakfast and then getting excited when said nugget car hits said 100km/h, but here we are
life is good
85 km/7 liters translate to 12 km/liters Mr Dank. That is pretty good for an engine that runs flat out the whole time
Or about 8.2L/100km. It’s more than a lot of modern cars use, and she’s not real quick… but that’s not really the point, is it?
I pushed my 1.0 3 cyl VW Up flat out for something like 100kms and it showed avg consumption below 6L/100km.
@@TerribleAcid What year? FI or Carburetor?
@@janson2911 2017 lol
It's incredible how this car was a backbone of Polish automotive industry for like 20 years. Cheers from pierogi land.
Tony drove! I’m amazed that you guys didn’t have to get out and push. Congratulations Tony you are a car!
To imagine that we had been driving from Poland to France in one of these with a 4 headed family and luggage.
"It's not even economical"
Can't say I'm surprised by that
that was the best part, i was like.... is that good? and it wasn't XD
One of my friends had an old fiat that really struggled uphill on the highway. When we used it for trips everyone would cheer whenever we made it up any hill. It was beautiful.
We really really need more tony, he’s proved that he’s well capable of going mach 5
I really like watching Wade and James just be bros together. Both of them giving a little cheer when Tony hits 100kph made me smile
i get the same jank feeling from my 1997 forester, although my car dosent have the problems yours does. theres a feeling of joy with older cars that makes them so much more fun to drive, and also when you repair it yourself it gives you that giddy feeling of "i made this car go"
Great vid mate, cant wait to see more shenanigans with your cars
I still miss the gold old days when the old Southern express way was a 1 way freeway that flipped direction.
That is such a South Australian thing
Way to go Tony.
Surely the next step is a trip accross to Melbourne?
Not one, but two overtakes! What a Nugget! Truly it is "an car". I love these Niki videos, and anything else car related. Keep `em coming!
Tony is like that one friend who can discover time travel but is too lazy to do it
This is so great.
I've been following your OG DankPods channel when I was living in Canada. Moved to Adelaide 5 months ago and now I you driving this around a minute from my house when you took the Noarlunga exit.
Can't believe we'd ever cross paths.
There is a video of a 1988 126p 650E being pushed on a Polish freeway to over 140km/h. Yes, it can do that. Somehow. :D
I have a 1979 datsun truck, and I gotta say, driving on the freeway for that long is insane, you're an absolute legend, dank.
How well is it going
This video made me nervous, lol. The amount of times my prior car broke down in places, including running out of gas on the interstate when the needle had one of its moments of getting stuck on full, are countless. So many times I would pray to just make it home, make it to work, make it to the store. And you guys are pushing this old baby to its limits for FUN. I was nervous for you, but at least you had a James to assist if anything did go wrong 😂
8:12 I love the face that the wheel speed exactly matches the camera shutter speed so the wheel send like it's not moving at all
Had an old '99 Hilux with a 3.0 N/A Diesel. Pretty sure the engine had serious issues (ended in a scrapyard after a year due to total engine failure) but that did 0-100 in 47s which is close to Tony's. Woulda loved a drag race. And yes, trucks and buses beat me going up hills.
Those 5L engines are pretty durable, I'm surprised you managed to blow it up...
My grandpa has a 2.5L N/A (2L-II) with a 5 speed manual and it goes 0-100 in about 20 seconds, and that car has like 450k on the odometer.
That engine must've been running on 2 cylinders if that's the case...
reminds me of my uncles 126p that he painted blue with a paint roller, man I love the 126p
8:20 this made me have way too much feelings for some crappy car at the other side of the world.
very happy that tony get's to see the world again in his old days.
“WE’RE A CAR!!!” I’m so proud of Tony ❤️ 🚗
Lmao the van they overtook turned around and overtook them in the next shot
With good carb tuning, proper ignition timing, good oil and everything, 126p is capable on cruising in 100-110 km/h easily, and 120-123 km/h top speed - at least the 650cc. The 600cc is just a tiny little bit slower, but has far better fuel economy. This was our family car for over 15 years, and we drove cross-continent drives in Europe.
What an absolute comeback story for Tony! Starting out as a sad nugget and now driving like an actual car! Inspiring!
My dad had one of these when I was a kid, the madman swapped a palio engine into the little beast and it became a rocket, so much of a weapon that when he sold it, the new owner totaled it in a few months running it into a guardrail. Poor little fridge, had a good run
James saying “not at flat-out!” is so beautiful I had to watch the whole thing twice in a row.
Happy to see Tony being an car and happily driving around :)
completely unrelated to anything but also thank you for including Tony at full revs on the hill as a constant sound because my audio was being funky and it was a perfect test for what I needed.
Anywho love ya, Dank
As an American, I felt about ready to shout "get out of the left lane!" before remembering you're living in British prison and drive on left, so your left lane is actually the slow lane after all.
Yes I thought the same. Then I realized they drive on the "wrong" side.
The spiders are the prison guards
Isn't blocking left lane normal in USA?
@@darek4488yeah but everyone hates fast lane campers anyways
@@jamiejam9976 There is absolutely nothing being done to deal with the left lane lounging in USA. Even trucks do it.
Here in Poland the hierarchy of speed was always there, but to expand on that, in 2023 a new law was made and now the semi-trucks are not allowed to overtake unless there is a great amount of speed between them. And since the semis are all capped to a similar speed now they just keep right and it sometimes looks like a road train. It greatly helps when going above 160 km/h in a car, because there is way less situations when you need to slam on the brakes to suddenly match 88-92 km/h the trucks are doing.
Back when they were first laying railroads for steam locomotives, there was some worry that the dangerously high speed (60 MILES PER HOUR, absurdly fast) would cause spontaneous hysterectomies in female passengers.
Didn't happen, but watching this thing get up to speed I can see how they thought it might.
What the fuck is a hysterectomy
@@crackedemerald4930 removal of the uterus
I am pro life
Tony is just using 0.1% of his power. He doesn't want to embarrass other cars. Truly an incredible act of graciousness.
i absolutely love the feeling when i see dankpods driving somewhere that i actually recognise it’s amazing
also woo express way yay love it
I had one of these as my first car, the max speed on the speedo was 80 mph and I regularly had the needle bouncing off the end driving round the m25 in the UK. Good Times 😜
That end bit where the fuel economy was calculated had me dying lmao!
he went from being so excited to so angry and it's practically the same expression
I've never been so emotionally invested in anything else on TH-cam 😆 GET IN THERE TONY!
Seeing this man doing fun stuff with his car makes me feel good, especially after my 2015 Sonota kicked into Limp Home mode after the same check engine light kicked on even after I got the entire engine replaced to fix the issue lmao.
*pain*
Sonota moment
Say what you want about our old eastern european crap but it will barely run for years and take abuse like it's nothing and when something finally gives out you just replace the part within 10 minutes. Can't do that on a fancy new car now can you?
This is why I'm afraid to touch new cars, your limp mode is probably cuz a fuse or some sensor went out, or something else idk but I'll stick to my old VW for now
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge or you just get a Corolla that won’t break down in the first place.
@@User-cb4jm They will and do break down. Though it's a Toyota so it will probably snap in half from rust first but they're not as well engineered as you americans think.
10:41 To keep the structural integrity of this vehicle intact as it travels at Mach 3, it is vital that all titanium panels have a loose fit. The waste heat and exterior friction result thermal expansion; the vehicle generally heats up rectifying all panels' fit to flush. This results in vehicles like the Tony Kowalski and SR 71 Blackbird leaking fuel when idle.
I love you so much man !!! I'm from Poland and know from experience that getting this thing to a 100 is like a miracle :D