r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • Feb 19 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A birthday he'll never forget 🎂🏎️

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u/steve_adr Feb 19 '25

This is Awesome!! 😃🙌🏻

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u/ScipioAtTheGate Feb 19 '25

They should have had one old broken down Yugo in the middle of all the sports cars for comedic effect!

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u/jdpatric Feb 19 '25

A Yugo was the first car to be blown of the Mackinac Bridge in 1989. Sadly the driver died.

The reason I bring up that "fun" fact is that I used to work in a hardware store back in the mid-late 2000's and one of the guys there used to work Search and Rescue up in Michigan around the bridge and he was part of the search for the driver. He said that after the event Search and Rescue began saying (of the bridge) "Yugo over, wego under."

Horrible situation...but catchy little phrase that I think of anytime someone mentions a Yugo.

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u/Mysticalnarbwhal2 Feb 20 '25

I legitimately thought you were going to turn out to be the guy who turns every long explanation into "...in nineteen ninety-eight when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table."

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u/jdpatric Feb 20 '25

I definitely see how you got there. Reads like shittymorph (the dude that does that I believe).

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u/FrankGrimes33 Feb 20 '25

I think of the same thing immediately after hearing or seeing the word “Yugo”. I remember driving over the Mackinac Bridge the day after that happened while coming home from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste Marie, and having a real uneasy feeling because my car wasn’t a whole lot bigger. Horrible story: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/07/car-swept-off-mackinac-bridge/2502721002/

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u/graveybrains Feb 20 '25

Pure Michigan

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u/Seth_os Feb 19 '25

Don't you diss on Yugo. Over here in ex YU countries where the thing was built, you can still see them on the road here and there. People like to pimp them up.

Mind you, the last one was produced in 2008.

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u/GSOvomitter Feb 19 '25

I had a friend who was 6'6" in the US who bought a new Yugo back in 1988/89. Seeing that giant get in and out of that 2 seater was just... fun

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u/techlos Feb 19 '25

i have mixed feelings on the yugo. it's objectively a terrible car with stock parts, but the sheer space in the engine bay makes it a dream for tuners to mod - i've even seen someone cram a twincharged LS V8 in one, and it actually was driveable.

I guess its nice knowing that no matter what you do to the car, you literally can only make it better.

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u/WTAF__Trump Feb 19 '25

There's this car meetup/show for nice cars at the place my daughter and I stop at to get coffee every Saturday before her counseling.

A couple weeks ago I went in the other entrance and tried to enter my POS 3 cylinder 76 HP Mitsubishi Mirage into the car show.

The entry people and I thought it was hilarious... And they even let me do it.

My daughter thought it was less hilarious. But it's all good... She was already on her way to counseling. Just add it to the pile.

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u/jlusedude Feb 20 '25

I was busy that day. 

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u/muruparian Feb 20 '25

This unlocked something from my memory bank, Sydney cbd about 2010, out of no where at a red light this guy in his WRX starts revving the shit out of his car, 2 guys behind him on Harley’s start revving the hell out of their bikes, guy behind them starts red lining his 458 Italia , next guy in his murcielago floors it, behind him were these 2 dudes in their bone stock standard 1994 Hyundai Excel giving it absolute everything laughing their heads off, fun times

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u/Educational_Back414 Feb 20 '25

My dad had a Yugo! It blew a gasket in the middle of Houston traffic.

He replaced it with a Geo Metro

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u/GoinWithThePhloem Feb 20 '25

Literally thought there was a mazda3 hatchback in there 😂

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u/glennshaltiel Feb 20 '25

reminds me of the top gear episode where they go to albania with two luxury sports cars and... a yugo

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u/daversa Feb 20 '25

i've always described Lamborghini owners as douchebags with a heart of gold lol.

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u/Soderholmsvag Feb 20 '25

This completely changes my mind about “Lamborghini Owner” - forever.