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The third ZUK I've seen and the first diesel. I had a brief chat with the owner who told me that all three have been imported by the same person who has connections in Poland and is able to find good ones. This had been in a barn for many years and has only done 30,000 miles.
This series of vehicles has not yet been shown on our photo page (which is natural, as we primarily specialise on trains), but it has had a massive impact on the whole Polish society. The Żuk series (literally translates to 'Beatle') has entered production in the Lublin Truck Factory in 1958 and has been produced in many different variants and modernisations for the next 40 years, with over half a milion units being rolled out of the prodcution line. The beatles have absolutely revolutionised the Polish lightweights tranport (just like the Volkswagen T4 did a couple of years later) and many of them can be seen to this day.
A little fun fact is that the Żuk parts have also been produced under licence in Egypt, by the company Eltramco. The local name for the Żuk in Africa was Ramzes.
On the picture we see a Żuk A 11 on a local road near Warka. I spotted it by accident while on a bike trip, I assume it had been returning from the local farmer's market in Warka.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
I was amazed to see this, although maybe I shouldn't have been since it's the second one I've seen in Newquay. Registered as an FS Lublina 07 and imported in 2017. 72,000km at the last MOT. I like things like this. Compared to a modern van it has a functional and honest look about it rather than something which is trying to make a fashion statement whilst (according to people I know who own them) being a nightmare of high costs and unreliability. I've no idea how reliable this would be, but I bet it's easy to repair.
ZUK production ran from 1958 to 1998. In latter years the company was owned by Daewoo.
The Zuk utility vehicles were produced in Lublin, Poland in 1958-98 (!) using the mechanicals of the 1940's Soviet sedan Pobeda.
Грузовые автомобили "Жук" выпускались в Люблине в Польше в 1958-98 гг. (!) на базе "Победы".