While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.
First off, the FSM Niki is the Australian version of the Polish version of the Fiat 126. Second, it's a car so cheap that it almost makes no sense to fix one up. As the bloke at Garbage Time has discovered since purchasing one, it's the kind of car that disinvites its owners from anything remotely resembling maintenance and that is worth $15 when you put $20 worth of gas in it.
Illogically, he's decided to embark on a rehabilitation project, inspired by a mate of his who owns another Niki and has bodged and kludged it along for years as a daily driver and a road tripper. The bodges and kludges prove instrumental too, given that parts for these aren't easy to come by in the first place and the global supply chain meltdown has made sourcing parts that much worse. But somehow the duo make it work from absolutely nothing and make it entertaining to boot. I, for one, am curious to see how far they get.
Re: Well, I Call that Fixed: Adventures in Rehabbing a Polish-built 1991 FSM Niki
03/15/2022 10:17 AM
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Re: Well, I Call that Fixed: Adventures in Rehabbing a Polish-built 1991 FSM Niki
