@@distie-fg8gb Want more? We also had a tent trailer which was very useful at night stops :D Let's say that communism required people and cars to be very tough :D thumbs.img-sprzedajemy.pl/1000x901c/c9/87/4f/przyczepa-namiotowa-skif-m2-kempingowe-zory-487043842.jpg
You imagine? I, my older brother and my sister had experianced that. In 90s our parents packed us into the car with all our baggages and we drove half of Poland (400 km). Five people family! With bags! 8 hours! In polish higway-less-pothole-full 90s!
Fun fact - the structural integrity of the car depends on the spare wheel being in the front trunk. Another fun fact - maluch is as safe as volvo - both cars have crumple zone ending on the engine.
In 1985 me and my parents travelled to Italy in a Maluch. WIth a 40 kilo tent and 2rubber matresses packed on the roof. When I think about it now I don't know if my parents were adventurous or irresponsible... That said, the trip was fun.
Za czasów podstawówki mama mojego kumpla podrzucała mnie takim do domu. Raz wracaliśmy maluszkiem w 7 osób: mama kumpla, on sam, jego brat, ja, ich babcia, nasz sąsiad + po drodze zgarnęliśmy moją ciotkę. Ach.... To były czasy....
The trunk is small, but carrying capacity is huge! All you need is a roof rack, and you can pack a family of four to vacations in Bulgaria. One time we were driving to a seaside (about 250mile trip) with all of our luggage packed all around us and on the roof, making the car over half a meter taller. Driving at a leisure pace of 60-70km/h (around 40mph), with frequent stops to make sure the luggage stayed attached and to let the old engine rest a bit... Man, I absolutely LOVE that car. Too bad our got eaten by rust after buying a newer car and that my grandma decided to scrap my grandfather's after he passed away, it was in good condition with just small mechanical problems. Had I known about it, I'd have bought it from her, even though I was just 16 at that time and wouldn't have a driving license for the next 4-5 years. There was a time you could by a Maluch for two bottles of vodka, roughly 60zł/15-16USD. Now even cars in that shitty condition are much more expensive, and good condition ones are getting pricey.
Also - Did you know, that Maluch is a very safe car? The crumple zone ends on the engine! Did you know Maluch is basically Porsche? Rear engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupe which seats 2+2 and is loud. Did you know that Maluch is the quietest car on the road? Because it's so cramped that the passengers cover their ears with their knees. Why's the rear window heated? To keep the hands of the people pushing it warm. Also also - no, there was no automatic. All cars had 4-speed manual. There was also no air conditioning, just a heater and a fan. There was a bit different version of the car, though, Fiat 126 BIS, which had engine liquid-cooled instead of air cooling and it was laid flat, so there was, in fact, another trunk in the back, and the car changed from a fastback/coupe to a hatchback. The engine was also a bit larger then, 700cc and whole 25KM! Overall, the car stayed roughly the same since the start of production right to the end, main changes are: bigger engine (from 600 to 650ccm), chrome bumpers to plastic ones, different gauge cluster (overall I think there were three versions), bit different interior (seats changed the most, I think), and only last 3 years of production the car was officially named Maluch (and the car has been made since 1973) and that's pretty much it. There were some minor details, but those are almost unnoticeable.
Memories... I personally know a Polish lecturer working in a university in Nigeria, who in late 70s-early 80s took one of those machines to Nigeria, drove it around, and sold locally. Almost certainly the only one in sub-Saharan Africa at that time (I heard of someone doing a "stunt" tour of Africa in one recently). It was a sensation everywhere it arrived: front page news in local newspapers, people gathering to watch, this kind of stuff. Was last seen in late 80s. My personal best for number of people in a 126p was six rather burly men, one of whom was transporting a freshly bought - and therefore luckily not yet used - toilet bowl. There were tonnes of jokes about 126p. Some quite funny, some less so. My favourite was the one about the new "Sport" version: just like the normal one, but including a pair of sneakers in the boot. Respecting the fact that you declared the channel to be "clean", I will not quote my second favourite... :-)
Słyszałem o ludziach, którzy w czasach PRLu jeździli maluchami na wakacje do Turcji. Przyznam, że nie jestem w stanie sobie tego wyobrazić. Ps. odkryłem dzisiaj Twój kanał. Obejrzałem wszystkie filmy w jeden wieczór. Świetna robota! Chciałem już iść spać, a tu kolejny film! Bardzo mi się podoba fakt, że z moim poziomem angielskiego, rozumiem praktycznie wszystko o czym opowiadasz. Wiele rzeczy mnie zaskoczyło, wiele rozbawiło. Czekam na kolejne filmy i serdecznie pozdrawiam!
Believe or not but I remember times, when people went to Romania or Bulgaria for summer time by this car with 4 people inside!!! And it really was back and forth trip!
My grandpa used to drive me to school in one 2006-ish. I remember keeping my fingers crossed as we were driving up the hill, because you could feel the engine having hard time. Every turn was a struggle too haha. But overall I remember it fondly. It was an adventure every morning.
Właśnie obejrzałam Twój film i przypomniało mi się, kiedy Maluchem tata zawoził nas na wakacje do babci (100 km od domu). Fotel pasażera z przodu załadowany bagażami pod sam dach. Z tyłu ja, mama z młodszą siostrą na kolanach - razem zajmowałyśmy połowę tylnej kanapy, a drugą połowę zajmował pies - owczarek niemiecki. Nie wyobrażam sobie takiej sytuacji teraz, ale wtedy nikogo taki widok nie dziwił.
The maluch has stories across the seas too! I took my wife's kids, both Polish, to Cuba on holidays and one sunny Sunday decided to go to the zoo along with my kids, both Cuban. Out of the house we went when we ran into our neighbor, the proud owner of a "polaquito" or "polski" as we call it in Cuba. Long story short, 7 of us had a joyride through town with a spare wheel on top of the roof. Best ride ever for the Polish kids!
Arkady Fiedler went in Maluch from Egypt to South Africa, and later in the second expedition from Poland through Turkey and the great steppe to Vladivostok. Don't underestimate its power
My grandparents moved from Poland to Germany in 1989 with my adult uncle (so 3 adults and all their belongings and over 1000 km) in Maluch :-) everything possible! I've heard stories of fixing this car's v belt with tights 🤣 I like simple things and as I'm 5 feet short this car would be great for my day to day driving 🙋🏼♀️
My parents had Maluch. I remember like one time we went to a lake: 5 kids and 2 adults. When I was 22 my cousin picked me up with his Maluch. It was winter, -20C outside and when we were driving we felt it was windy inside! You can imagine how frozen we were after 10km 😄
This one is the brand new almost, fired up by the key. I remember the old ones fired up by the line, we used to call it "na linkę". You had to pull up the line or wire with your own hand. That was fun. By the way, great channel, i found it 2 days ago and still watching
My first car (1987) was a Fiat 126 (no p) in flame red. Broke down all the time. But then we also had a lot of fun. The most I ever fit was 5 people including 3 guys your size. You have not mentioned the heating, which was the best: The car was warm within 500m from starting.
Moje pierwsze wakacje - 1979, miałam 3 lata, kiedy we 4 osoby plus mój brat w brzuchu mamy przejechaliśmy takim autem ponad 1400 km z lubelskiego do Koszalina i z powrotem. Teraz sobie myślę: Jezuuuu! Jak??????
It was said to be the safest car in the world. If you knew the Polish idiom "wyciągnąć nogi", you'd understand why - it was literally impossible stretch out your legs in it.
My grandfather had a Maluch in yellow too. I've never been so terrified in a car as when he was ripping it down a cobble stone street in Czestochowa with about a foot of clearance on either side in.
We had a maluch, we sold it around 2000 for ridiculously low price. Now it's worth at last 20 times more, but I'm just happy some of them survived and are now consider classics. Always nice to see one of them on the streets, the same with trabant and polonez, especially that I remember when they were still popular :)
@@LoveMyPoland Opanować trzeci najtrudniejszy język na świecie to niewątpliwy powód do dumy. Chciałbym mieć takie zdolności lingwistyczne. Angielski przychodzi mi względnie łatwo, ale już z niemieckim mam ogromne problemy.
Great episode as usual. I drove one of those suckers about 20 years ago, for sure no power steering. Glad you got your wish to drive one around. I had great fun driving it too. Cheers to your Polish. Very nice.
I remember something like that: me, my parents, elder brother, dog and stuff or two weeks vacation (including a tent for four people; old type with aluminium poles - it was as heavy and big as a sack of potatoes) - all transported in one Maluch.
Hello Czasem brakuje mi obiektywizmu, lub zwyczajnie mam wrażenie że w mojej części kroju wygląda to zupełnie inaczej, ale ogólnie Świetna robota i oby tak dalej, great job, keep going
I remember my parents fiting all bags and three kids in there 😂 Or driving it in mountains...scary as hell. Or my grandfather pulling us on sleds- "kulig" is how we call it... don't know the english word for it... Great memories 😊
I have done trip to Zakopane from Warszawa for skiing holiday. 4 persons and all the gear (Ski boots etc) No highway that time. Also gone to Bulgaria wit a friend. THAT WAS THE TIME ! we were young and happy.
This model does not have the "mandatory equipment" onboard :) Nobody mentioned this before, so here it is, i'll explain. This is the "newer" model, probably from the 90's, end of production. You can start it as any other car, put the key in to the ignition, turn it on, engine starts. The older one had different way of turning the engine on. You should move the key and then pull the starter motor lever (which was close to the gear shift lever and handbrake). It was connected via steel wire with the starter motor in the engine compartment. Often the wire was broke (usually on winter time), but there was a way to start the engine without the wire: You should have a stick (usually wooden, from the sweep brush :) ) and hit the starter motor lever with gear on neutral position and key turned to "on" position. Then Maluch starts :) It may sound as a joke, but it's actually true, google "odpalanie malucha kijem" or watch this movie: ua-cam.com/video/9hd9Cvv6JOo/v-deo.html And here is the lever location: ua-cam.com/video/Gv_KrNET6Uc/v-deo.html
Another unique solution - wiper washer ‘pump’ - it was a rubber button in the central console, actually filled with water - you pressed it and you were actually pushing the water out to the windshield... no electricity involved.... One time it froze in my parents maluch...
How about jumping 3ft in the air over a speed bump? I saw some students at my university did that. I thought the car will undergo rapid unscheduled disassembly upon landing, but surprisingly there was just a lot of sparks ;) Can't do that with a front mounted engine, you would lose a sump.
some facts about Maluch: Maluch is RWD - 1st snow + Tesco = need to try it Almost all of them disappeared when China was preparing some Olympic Games, price of steel went up so much that it was worth to buy Maluch, disassembly it, sell junk and make a nice profit, my brother did like 20 of them It's not full iron - it's engine is aluminium (I know from point above) Maluch is as safe as BMW - crash zone ends on the engine xD
Back in the '90s my girlfriend had one of those. I wasn't able to drive it, I was too tall for it. I had to reach under my knee to find the shifter, and I was constantly hitting both gas and clutch pedals with my foot.
My hursband grandad have one of those and we normally call polish Mercedes!!🤣 He drove this car and me made a lots of picture at the time,will be forever memories !
2:11 "Its maximum speed is 110 km/h" I take exception to that, Sir! My Maluch once dropped down a hill -- granted: with good back wind, at almost 140 km/h! (the clock goes only to 140 anyway) Glad to be here with You by the way...
oh Yeah! and 15 years earlier my Dad My Mom and me went to Bulgaria (Ahtopol) with this thing. Later on, still in th 80's, My dad and 2 of his inlaws went to France for a grape harverst.. Twice!!
I had 2 of them during the 90's. You spend more time underneath fixing it than in it driving. Yes older generation used to go on Eurotrips in it. I managed to drive from Gdynia to Warsaw without reverse and first gear, also had electrical malfunction and fuel leak so not good experiance with it.
Hahahaha loving what you do here, as I have emigrated to Ireland I find it fascinating you find so many fascinating quirks in Poland and about polish people.
@@LoveMyPoland If im ever back, I will probably be going to Fort in Czestochowa, hope to meet you then and have a quick chat or even a beer. Do you organize any meetups?
The car is really light too. My mom was driving one with my grandma next to her, and it just so happened that it broke down while they were stood in the traffic lights. She didn't know what to do, so my grandma asked some young guys standing at a bus stop nearby to help them. Mom and grandma left the car, the guys lifted it and walked with it over to the bus stop, placing it on the sidewalk. You need less people to lift that car and place it down on the side of the road than to carry a refrigerator to the 4th floor. It's literally the easiest car to steal, you don't even need to break into it, you just lift it up and run away.
I remember my best friend's mum used to drive Maluch... and one day she took us to another town... us and her sister and husband.... 5 people in this tiny car!! It was the most uncomfortable journey in my life XD
Accidently stumbled upon your channel a couple of hours ago, can't stop watching. I love seeing my country through foreigner's eyes, it's utterly fascinating and heartwarming :D
Russell, great car....and your Polish is great..better then mine...people try to laugh at me in Chicago..I just tell them simply I can speak English well
Great vid. Another one that takes me back. My cousin had one of these as a handy-down she loved it. We would joyride when I visited. She did not maintain it too well it was just a fun toy. When we would joyride in it I had a job. I was responsible to squeeze into the back and hold both doors closed, from time to time they would pop open on crazier turns.
No i zajebiscie! Pieknie mowisz po polsku. Wiec nie wiem dlaczego forumowicze traktuja cie jak glaba i pisza do Ciebie po angielsku. Zaloze sie ze najbardziej skupiasz sie na tych polskich wpisach bo wtedy uczysz sie czegos. Pozdrawiam.Trzymaj sie.
Scotty Kilmer says: "Rev-up YOUR Maluch!! "😀 PS Russell, your channel is really blowing up💣!! It seems LIKE you were at 10k subs just a week ago!! Keep it goin'!!
The story with Tom Hanks' Fiat 126p is rather different than what you said. Tom Hanks had no idea the car was being restored for him. He just heard about it through some absurd methods - people were nagging his agents and trying to pass the info to Tom Hanks regardless how. They were actually very lucky he even responded. Even after that nagging didn't stop....... only by that time they were almost begging him to come to PL ;) But after he picked up the car he stated very clearly that he would prefer if people didn't try stunts like that next time and stopped preparing gifts for him, as he doesn't need those. So...... you can say that this was a sort of publicity stunt..... or you can even argue it was a gift...... But Tom Hanks was actually so surprised that he didn't really feel 100% comfortable with all of that ;)
I saw one in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Not sure if it was still operational or not. Recently I saw some at the Polish festival in Staten Island, NY. Also saw a sedan version... they were in mint condition!
If you really like Maluch you can watch Arkady Fiedler's channel. He is a grandson of fame Polish travel and decided to go into Maluch from Egypt to South Africa and from Poland to Vladivostok. He have the whole Africa travel on his YT and already uploading Asian one :)
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that after long rides the Maluch engine could get so hot the fuel would start self-igniting in cyllinders, so you had to sit there with cluch pedal down for a bit after shutting down the engine to let it kick itself out.
Don’t forget that use to be a family car, families use to go for holiday in this car. Also u could fit up to 16 young adults who was coming back from village party 🤣🤣🤣 That car is a legend 😉
Getting from point A to point B? Oh no no no no...you are very wrong Sir. People went on vacation in those little cars with the whole family, sometimes across the country. Reliability wasn't it strongest but as you said it was quite easy to fox, in fact, there is a saying "żeby naprawić malucha wystarczy klucz 10, śrubokręt, młotek i pończochy" which more or less translates to "you can fix maluch with 10mm wrench, screwdriver, hammer and a pair of tights" for those viewers that aren't familiar with our language.
Now, imagine packing your entire family and going on vacation to the seaside in this thing. Yes, our parents and grandparents used to do that
At 80's my 4 person family went from Poznań to Bulgary and back. Approx. 4000 km.
Actually I can imagine a younger Chevy Chase in this car, having all sorts of unearthy adventures.
@@raindog6852 Wtf how
@@distie-fg8gb Want more? We also had a tent trailer which was very useful at night stops :D Let's say that communism required people and cars to be very tough :D
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You imagine? I, my older brother and my sister had experianced that. In 90s our parents packed us into the car with all our baggages and we drove half of Poland (400 km). Five people family! With bags! 8 hours! In polish higway-less-pothole-full 90s!
Fun fact - the structural integrity of the car depends on the spare wheel being in the front trunk.
Another fun fact - maluch is as safe as volvo - both cars have crumple zone ending on the engine.
Czapka z daszkiem dodaje z 5 cm do strefy zgniotu.
That one deserves a standing, slow clap. Chapeau bas. Kłaniam się nisko.
I tak w przypadku malucha najlepsze jest stwierdzenie, że strefa zgniotu kończy się na silniku.
@@aghastinagharta Przy uderzeniu z przodu :D
In 1985 me and my parents travelled to Italy in a Maluch. WIth a 40 kilo tent and 2rubber matresses packed on the roof. When I think about it now I don't know if my parents were adventurous or irresponsible... That said, the trip was fun.
I'd say that they were BOTH!!
GOOD story!!👍
Maybe just they didn't have any other options - getting a passport was a run with obstacles, no low-cost airline, having extremely restricted budget
Fajnie, że wrzuciłeś fragment po polsku ;)
Radzi sobie ;) prawdziwy test z polskiego przechodzi sie mając promil i zamawiając pizze przez tel. :)
Automat w maluchu... how cute :D
Thanks for doing a Doug DeMuro on a Maluch! 😆
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Ojciec maluchem przywiózł pralkę i meblościankę. Sam kupiłem kiedyś malacza od emeryta z garażu ale w stanie kolekcjonerskim czeka na spadkobierców.
Tapczan. Cały. I sofa, ale nieduża. Policjant tatę złapał, ale puścił z upomnieniem, bo już niedaleko domu było.
Do you know what does FIAT 126p stand for?
F atalna
I mitacja
A uta
T urystycznego
1 - osobowy
2 - drzwiowy
6 - krotnie
P rzepłacony
FIAT stands for...
F ix
I t
A gain
T ony
Znam inna wersje Fantastyczny Idiotyczny Autobusik Turystyczny 1 dzwiowy 2 wejsciowy 6 pomniejszony
Maybe Fix it again Tomasz....no Tony owned this car in 80s! -:)
Actually, some people use the MALUCH as a tourist car ua-cam.com/video/yxMvbHsmvIs/v-deo.html
Za czasów podstawówki mama mojego kumpla podrzucała mnie takim do domu. Raz wracaliśmy maluszkiem w 7 osób: mama kumpla, on sam, jego brat, ja, ich babcia, nasz sąsiad + po drodze zgarnęliśmy moją ciotkę.
Ach.... To były czasy....
The trunk is small, but carrying capacity is huge! All you need is a roof rack, and you can pack a family of four to vacations in Bulgaria. One time we were driving to a seaside (about 250mile trip) with all of our luggage packed all around us and on the roof, making the car over half a meter taller. Driving at a leisure pace of 60-70km/h (around 40mph), with frequent stops to make sure the luggage stayed attached and to let the old engine rest a bit... Man, I absolutely LOVE that car. Too bad our got eaten by rust after buying a newer car and that my grandma decided to scrap my grandfather's after he passed away, it was in good condition with just small mechanical problems. Had I known about it, I'd have bought it from her, even though I was just 16 at that time and wouldn't have a driving license for the next 4-5 years.
There was a time you could by a Maluch for two bottles of vodka, roughly 60zł/15-16USD. Now even cars in that shitty condition are much more expensive, and good condition ones are getting pricey.
Also - Did you know, that Maluch is a very safe car? The crumple zone ends on the engine!
Did you know Maluch is basically Porsche? Rear engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupe which seats 2+2 and is loud.
Did you know that Maluch is the quietest car on the road? Because it's so cramped that the passengers cover their ears with their knees.
Why's the rear window heated? To keep the hands of the people pushing it warm.
Also also - no, there was no automatic. All cars had 4-speed manual. There was also no air conditioning, just a heater and a fan. There was a bit different version of the car, though, Fiat 126 BIS, which had engine liquid-cooled instead of air cooling and it was laid flat, so there was, in fact, another trunk in the back, and the car changed from a fastback/coupe to a hatchback. The engine was also a bit larger then, 700cc and whole 25KM!
Overall, the car stayed roughly the same since the start of production right to the end, main changes are: bigger engine (from 600 to 650ccm), chrome bumpers to plastic ones, different gauge cluster (overall I think there were three versions), bit different interior (seats changed the most, I think), and only last 3 years of production the car was officially named Maluch (and the car has been made since 1973) and that's pretty much it. There were some minor details, but those are almost unnoticeable.
Ten or twelve years ago, I asked my step-son how much a Maluch cost. He asked "Gas tank full or empty?"
Engine at the back - polish little cute Porsche awww :D
Memories...
I personally know a Polish lecturer working in a university in Nigeria, who in late 70s-early 80s took one of those machines to Nigeria, drove it around, and sold locally. Almost certainly the only one in sub-Saharan Africa at that time (I heard of someone doing a "stunt" tour of Africa in one recently). It was a sensation everywhere it arrived: front page news in local newspapers, people gathering to watch, this kind of stuff. Was last seen in late 80s.
My personal best for number of people in a 126p was six rather burly men, one of whom was transporting a freshly bought - and therefore luckily not yet used - toilet bowl.
There were tonnes of jokes about 126p. Some quite funny, some less so. My favourite was the one about the new "Sport" version: just like the normal one, but including a pair of sneakers in the boot.
Respecting the fact that you declared the channel to be "clean", I will not quote my second favourite... :-)
My parenta made a honeymoon trip from Poland to Spain and over Europe back during communism in 1978. Just in Maluch! Over 6000km!
6:54 - it may be a loud car, but when you've got your knees covering your ears when squeezed into the seat, you can't tell!
Słyszałem o ludziach, którzy w czasach PRLu jeździli maluchami na wakacje do Turcji.
Przyznam, że nie jestem w stanie sobie tego wyobrazić.
Ps. odkryłem dzisiaj Twój kanał. Obejrzałem wszystkie filmy w jeden wieczór. Świetna robota! Chciałem już iść spać, a tu kolejny film! Bardzo mi się podoba fakt, że z moim poziomem angielskiego, rozumiem praktycznie wszystko o czym opowiadasz. Wiele rzeczy mnie zaskoczyło, wiele rozbawiło. Czekam na kolejne filmy i serdecznie pozdrawiam!
norex mając 3 lata byłem z rodzicami maluchem w Bułgarii. Teraz mam 40 i też nie jestem w stanie sobie tego wyobrazić :)
Taaa na pewno jeździli do natowskiej Turcji za komuny hahaha
@@EliuszHadrian Jeździli, pamiętam.Skądś przecież trzeba było te kożuchy przywozić.
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No jakoś tak dziwnie komuna rządziła, że łatwiej było wyjechać do Turcji, np. po kożuchy, niż do rodziny w Szwecji na wakacje.
@@mikael5315 Do Turcji latało się na handel i to bardzo nieliczni. Maluchem jeździło się do Bułgarii na wakacje. Czasem do Jugosławii.
For someone who wasn’t born into the language, your Polish is excellent. I’m truly impressed.
Believe or not but I remember times, when people went to Romania or Bulgaria for summer time by this car with 4 people inside!!! And it really was back and forth trip!
My grandpa used to drive me to school in one 2006-ish. I remember keeping my fingers crossed as we were driving up the hill, because you could feel the engine having hard time. Every turn was a struggle too haha. But overall I remember it fondly. It was an adventure every morning.
Właśnie obejrzałam Twój film i przypomniało mi się, kiedy Maluchem tata zawoził nas na wakacje do babci (100 km od domu). Fotel pasażera z przodu załadowany bagażami pod sam dach. Z tyłu ja, mama z młodszą siostrą na kolanach - razem zajmowałyśmy połowę tylnej kanapy, a drugą połowę zajmował pies - owczarek niemiecki. Nie wyobrażam sobie takiej sytuacji teraz, ale wtedy nikogo taki widok nie dziwił.
The maluch has stories across the seas too! I took my wife's kids, both Polish, to Cuba on holidays and one sunny Sunday decided to go to the zoo along with my kids, both Cuban. Out of the house we went when we ran into our neighbor, the proud owner of a "polaquito" or "polski" as we call it in Cuba. Long story short, 7 of us had a joyride through town with a spare wheel on top of the roof. Best ride ever for the Polish kids!
Arkady Fiedler went in Maluch from Egypt to South Africa, and later in the second expedition from Poland through Turkey and the great steppe to Vladivostok. Don't underestimate its power
Popularna nazwa 126p w moich stronach to "kaszlak". Popular nickname in my parts for 126p is "cougher". I guess it descripts engine starting sound.
You must be from North eastern Poland.
My grandparents moved from Poland to Germany in 1989 with my adult uncle (so 3 adults and all their belongings and over 1000 km) in Maluch :-) everything possible!
I've heard stories of fixing this car's v belt with tights 🤣
I like simple things and as I'm 5 feet short this car would be great for my day to day driving 🙋🏼♀️
Definitely Doug Demuro influence. Still you’ve missed showing exhaust note and climbing in to the back seat 😜😂😂😂😂😂
My parents had Maluch. I remember like one time we went to a lake: 5 kids and 2 adults. When I was 22 my cousin picked me up with his Maluch. It was winter, -20C outside and when we were driving we felt it was windy inside! You can imagine how frozen we were after 10km 😄
Oh I remember when my family had a maluch! My father who is a really tall man would look hilarious while driving it!
Great video 😊
W latach świetności 4 osobowa rodzina mieściła się z bagażami i jechało się 600 km nad morze:)
Trafiłam tu przypadkiem....Masz nowego subskrybenta.....Good job. I m waiting for more. 👍🇵🇱
This one is the brand new almost, fired up by the key. I remember the old ones fired up by the line, we used to call it "na linkę". You had to pull up the line or wire with your own hand. That was fun.
By the way, great channel, i found it 2 days ago and still watching
Thank you 👍👍👍
My first car (1987) was a Fiat 126 (no p) in flame red. Broke down all the time. But then we also had a lot of fun. The most I ever fit was 5 people including 3 guys your size. You have not mentioned the heating, which was the best: The car was warm within 500m from starting.
man your Trabi was an inclusive here
@ I am from West-Germany. We never had a Trabi! ;-) - We had the Volkswagen Beattle!
Moje pierwsze wakacje - 1979, miałam 3 lata, kiedy we 4 osoby plus mój brat w brzuchu mamy przejechaliśmy takim autem ponad 1400 km z lubelskiego do Koszalina i z powrotem. Teraz sobie myślę: Jezuuuu! Jak??????
Polacy potrafią robić wszystko ❤️
6 osob wejdzie jak nic :) Polak potrafi :)
Jej, jak Ty genialnie mówisz po polsku!!!
It was said to be the safest car in the world. If you knew the Polish idiom "wyciągnąć nogi", you'd understand why - it was literally impossible stretch out your legs in it.
The most unique engine sound ever. Often called Kaszlak or Cougher. There's quite a large modder market for them.
My grandfather had a Maluch in yellow too. I've never been so terrified in a car as when he was ripping it down a cobble stone street in Czestochowa with about a foot of clearance on either side in.
We had a maluch, we sold it around 2000 for ridiculously low price. Now it's worth at last 20 times more, but I'm just happy some of them survived and are now consider classics. Always nice to see one of them on the streets, the same with trabant and polonez, especially that I remember when they were still popular :)
Your polish is so good! Well done! Was it difficult for you to learn? cause I know foreigners have difficulties with it. 🇵🇱
It was and continuously is! Dziękuję! 😄
Przyjemności po mojej stronie! Bardzo dobrze mówisz po polsku. Hats off to you😀
@@LoveMyPoland Opanować trzeci najtrudniejszy język na świecie to niewątpliwy powód do dumy. Chciałbym mieć takie zdolności lingwistyczne. Angielski przychodzi mi względnie łatwo, ale już z niemieckim mam ogromne problemy.
my first car 20 yrs ago and i'm 6'8. yeah, couldn't afford better ride as a teenager. your polish is spot on.
Great episode as usual. I drove one of those suckers about 20 years ago, for sure no power steering. Glad you got your wish to drive one around. I had great fun driving it too. Cheers to your Polish. Very nice.
I remember something like that: me, my parents, elder brother, dog and stuff or two weeks vacation (including a tent for four people; old type with aluminium poles - it was as heavy and big as a sack of potatoes) - all transported in one Maluch.
Wow, I gotta say your Polish is on point.
Uwielbiam Twoje programy,życzę owocnego kręcenia nowych odcinków
Hello Czasem brakuje mi obiektywizmu, lub zwyczajnie mam wrażenie że w mojej części kroju wygląda to zupełnie inaczej, ale ogólnie Świetna robota i oby tak dalej, great job, keep going
Hello I bardzo dziękuję 😊
I remember my parents fiting all bags and three kids in there 😂 Or driving it in mountains...scary as hell. Or my grandfather pulling us on sleds- "kulig" is how we call it... don't know the english word for it... Great memories 😊
I have done trip to Zakopane from Warszawa for skiing holiday. 4 persons and all the gear (Ski boots etc) No highway that time. Also gone to Bulgaria wit a friend. THAT WAS THE TIME ! we were young and happy.
I have 126p fl about 10 years. This car is amaizing.
It was my first car... great experience.
Your polish pronunciation is brilliant congratulations 👍
This model does not have the "mandatory equipment" onboard :) Nobody mentioned this before, so here it is, i'll explain. This is the "newer" model, probably from the 90's, end of production. You can start it as any other car, put the key in to the ignition, turn it on, engine starts. The older one had different way of turning the engine on. You should move the key and then pull the starter motor lever (which was close to the gear shift lever and handbrake). It was connected via steel wire with the starter motor in the engine compartment. Often the wire was broke (usually on winter time), but there was a way to start the engine without the wire: You should have a stick (usually wooden, from the sweep brush :) ) and hit the starter motor lever with gear on neutral position and key turned to "on" position. Then Maluch starts :) It may sound as a joke, but it's actually true, google "odpalanie malucha kijem" or watch this movie: ua-cam.com/video/9hd9Cvv6JOo/v-deo.html And here is the lever location: ua-cam.com/video/Gv_KrNET6Uc/v-deo.html
Thanks for the info 💪👍
Another unique solution - wiper washer ‘pump’ - it was a rubber button in the central console, actually filled with water - you pressed it and you were actually pushing the water out to the windshield... no electricity involved....
One time it froze in my parents maluch...
Some bigger guys demounted their driver seat, so they could drive while sitting on back seat :D
Effin police academy flashbacks :)
How about jumping 3ft in the air over a speed bump? I saw some students at my university did that. I thought the car will undergo rapid unscheduled disassembly upon landing, but surprisingly there was just a lot of sparks ;) Can't do that with a front mounted engine, you would lose a sump.
some facts about Maluch:
Maluch is RWD - 1st snow + Tesco = need to try it
Almost all of them disappeared when China was preparing some Olympic Games, price of steel went up so much that it was worth to buy Maluch, disassembly it, sell junk and make a nice profit, my brother did like 20 of them
It's not full iron - it's engine is aluminium (I know from point above)
Maluch is as safe as BMW - crash zone ends on the engine xD
Back in the '90s my girlfriend had one of those. I wasn't able to drive it, I was too tall for it. I had to reach under my knee to find the shifter, and I was constantly hitting both gas and clutch pedals with my foot.
Lots of good memories in this little car!!! I passed my driving skills in this thing 👍🤐🤣
Co prawda legendy głoszą, że zmieści się do Malucha nawet 10 osób, ale ja jechałem nim w 6 osób i było to niesamowite przeżycie. ;)
My hursband grandad have one of those and we normally call polish Mercedes!!🤣
He drove this car and me made a lots of picture at the time,will be forever memories !
O rety... ale dobry akcent :) Gratuluję :D
Love your channel! Honestly, best channel I came across on youtube 👍👍
Wow, that means a lot to me! Thanks
Yeah, my Polish girl had one.... I have the modern Maluch, the Seicento!
Briliant episode! :) It would be cool if you decided to tell us what fascinated you the most about Polish history - which moment or event.
2:11 "Its maximum speed is 110 km/h" I take exception to that, Sir! My Maluch once dropped down a hill -- granted: with good back wind, at almost 140 km/h! (the clock goes only to 140 anyway) Glad to be here with You by the way...
oh Yeah! and 15 years earlier my Dad My Mom and me went to Bulgaria (Ahtopol) with this thing.
Later on, still in th 80's, My dad and 2 of his inlaws went to France for a grape harverst.. Twice!!
Your Polish is great
My workmate's brother drove his Fiat 126p from Wroclaw PL to Vladivostok RUS and back without a single problem and that is almost 22k kilometers :)
I had a clockwork orange like this one, loads of memories
I had 2 of them during the 90's. You spend more time underneath fixing it than in it driving. Yes older generation used to go on Eurotrips in it. I managed to drive from Gdynia to Warsaw without reverse and first gear, also had electrical malfunction and fuel leak so not good experiance with it.
OMG, well done!
You can speak Polish.
Well done!
Those autos remind me of Trabants -- They look awfully rickety!
More like Ratkeety cos The eats by rats
Hahahaha loving what you do here, as I have emigrated to Ireland I find it fascinating you find so many fascinating quirks in Poland and about polish people.
And so much more on the way!
@@LoveMyPoland If im ever back, I will probably be going to Fort in Czestochowa, hope to meet you then and have a quick chat or even a beer. Do you organize any meetups?
@@35k31-t4q I'd love to do that one day. I must consider it :)
The car is really light too. My mom was driving one with my grandma next to her, and it just so happened that it broke down while they were stood in the traffic lights. She didn't know what to do, so my grandma asked some young guys standing at a bus stop nearby to help them. Mom and grandma left the car, the guys lifted it and walked with it over to the bus stop, placing it on the sidewalk. You need less people to lift that car and place it down on the side of the road than to carry a refrigerator to the 4th floor. It's literally the easiest car to steal, you don't even need to break into it, you just lift it up and run away.
Ha! świetnie mówisz po polsku, pozdrowienia.
I remember my best friend's mum used to drive Maluch... and one day she took us to another town... us and her sister and husband.... 5 people in this tiny car!! It was the most uncomfortable journey in my life XD
I like your videos. I bet you are an amazing english teacher
Cool stuff, now take Syrena on the test😁
Accidently stumbled upon your channel a couple of hours ago, can't stop watching. I love seeing my country through foreigner's eyes, it's utterly fascinating and heartwarming :D
I was traveling with my parents and sister from Czestochowa to Leba in our Maluch😊😊😊
Russell, great car....and your Polish is great..better then mine...people try to laugh at me in Chicago..I just tell them simply I can speak English well
I have seen Maluch in Budapest and London.
I’ve seen it in Ross-on-Wye last week. Couldn’t stop staring
Great vid. Another one that takes me back. My cousin had one of these as a handy-down she loved it. We would joyride when I visited. She did not maintain it too well it was just a fun toy. When we would joyride in it I had a job. I was responsible to squeeze into the back and hold both doors closed, from time to time they would pop open on crazier turns.
Thanks for this ! what a great review! You looked like a giant when you got out of that Car!
Thank you, Holy Joe! 😄
No i zajebiscie! Pieknie mowisz po polsku. Wiec nie wiem dlaczego forumowicze traktuja cie jak glaba i pisza do Ciebie po angielsku.
Zaloze sie ze najbardziej skupiasz sie na tych polskich wpisach bo wtedy uczysz sie czegos.
Pozdrawiam.Trzymaj sie.
We had Maluch as main family car up to around 2007, so for 8 years of my life
Scotty Kilmer says: "Rev-up YOUR Maluch!! "😀
PS Russell, your channel is really blowing up💣!! It seems LIKE you were at 10k subs just a week ago!! Keep it goin'!!
The bomb has hit 💪😁
The story with Tom Hanks' Fiat 126p is rather different than what you said.
Tom Hanks had no idea the car was being restored for him.
He just heard about it through some absurd methods - people were nagging his agents and trying to pass the info to Tom Hanks regardless how. They were actually very lucky he even responded.
Even after that nagging didn't stop....... only by that time they were almost begging him to come to PL ;)
But after he picked up the car he stated very clearly that he would prefer if people didn't try stunts like that next time and stopped preparing gifts for him, as he doesn't need those.
So...... you can say that this was a sort of publicity stunt..... or you can even argue it was a gift......
But Tom Hanks was actually so surprised that he didn't really feel 100% comfortable with all of that ;)
Excellent polish language here !!
My neighbour has had a blue one parked outside our flat since I can remember.
I saw one in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Not sure if it was still operational or not. Recently I saw some at the Polish festival in Staten Island, NY. Also saw a sedan version... they were in mint condition!
How interesting! Wish I could've seen one when I was Stateside.
Love My Poland! Indeed. I’m sure someone in Chicago has one
That's legend. I am in stitches 🤗😂💕🙋💕
Świetnie mówisz po polsku! 😀
I used to deliver parcels to EDPOL couple years ago ;)
best wishes from ZF Edpol crew :)
Helllllo!!
I remember my vacation. 8h in summer sun with no air conditioning, 5 pple :) 1995
I'd love to have one someday. It may not be the best car but it is incredibly cute
If you really like Maluch you can watch Arkady Fiedler's channel. He is a grandson of fame Polish travel and decided to go into Maluch from Egypt to South Africa and from Poland to Vladivostok. He have the whole Africa travel on his YT and already uploading Asian one :)
Great video)
Wow. Your Polish is great!
Do you know where finish crash zone in this car, on the engine :P
Safe how volvo :D five stars haha :D
Jak widzę jak piszecie po angielsku to mnie oczy bolą :D Thank you from the mountain
@@mattzmuda fajnie..cieszymy sie bardzo : D
@@mattzmuda no has behind what
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that after long rides the Maluch engine could get so hot the fuel would start self-igniting in cyllinders, so you had to sit there with cluch pedal down for a bit after shutting down the engine to let it kick itself out.
Don’t forget that use to be a family car, families use to go for holiday in this car.
Also u could fit up to 16 young adults who was coming back from village party 🤣🤣🤣
That car is a legend 😉
It's also considered very safe, the frontal crumple zone ends on the engine.
Getting from point A to point B? Oh no no no no...you are very wrong Sir. People went on vacation in those little cars with the whole family, sometimes across the country. Reliability wasn't it strongest but as you said it was quite easy to fox, in fact, there is a saying "żeby naprawić malucha wystarczy klucz 10, śrubokręt, młotek i pończochy" which more or less translates to "you can fix maluch with 10mm wrench, screwdriver, hammer and a pair of tights" for those viewers that aren't familiar with our language.
My dad and a few friends put their teacher's maluch on top of a large bin, they just lifted it up.