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Today we present video with Polish prototype cars from communism era. Unfortunately, due to political regim none from the prototypes were produced. It's a great pity, becouse for example Syrena Sport looks great even today.

Today we have short document about Solaris - company which built buses which are running all over the world. Enjoy.

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Today we present a few interesting films from the Polish Film Chronicle from the time of the PRL. All videos are about vehicles but some of them may seem very funny in current days. Especially the one about tuning. Theme of this reportage may cause a slight smile: "from each wreck we do the Fiat' More funny are the possibilities of tuning: galvanized watering can to refill the water, bucket for gasoline, or cabinet TV station.

272 Jelcz MEX - bus from '60 and 70 produced by the Polish company Jelcz Czechoslovakian license, was and still is an icon of Polish moto.

Author:Lukas 3z under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

CWS T-1 it's a Polish car which was built after 1927 till 1933. Car was very successful vehicle, but production had to be suspended due to agreement between Polish government and FIAT company. Poland bought license from Fiat to produce one of their cars (Fiat 508) and in return Polish companies had to stop producing competitive car - CWS T-1. The reason was that production of Italian car was cheaper than Polish one.

In Poland making hot rods from an old cars isn't very popular. People usual tune their car in other ways. There is however one, famous low rider build from an old Polish, communistic car. It is FSO Warszawa. Normally Warsaw was coarse, raw and a little ugly, but this is of course a matter of taste.How it look after tunning ? Just watch the video...

9K33 Osa (NATO: SA-8 Gecko, English:Wasp) is a surface-to-air missile system used by Polish army. It is the first vehicle with mobile defence missile system with radar on one, single car - so called all-in-one. Such system can detect, track and destroy aircrafts autonomously. Of course there is also possibility to work with cooperation of ground radar stations.

First Fiat 518, also called "Mazur", was produced in 1937 on FIAT license. From it's Italian version differs in that it was rebuilt to support polish road and exploitation condition. Mazur has two cabin version supporting 4 and 7 persons. Five seater version was more luxury than seven seater - the chairs were more comfortable and could fold to create sleeping place for at least 2 persons.

Many people when thinks about Poland motorization thinks about poor quality cars from communism. They are wrong! Small manufacture (Leopard Automobile AB) in Mielec produce one of the great looking supercars in the world - Leopard. Car is produced since 2005. Every year only about 20 hand made roadsters are built, so it is very unique and rare.

AMZ Tur - polish armored patrol car for infantry - is often called Polish hummer because of look and very good off-roads parameters. Name 'Tur' comes from an aurochs (in Polish it's 'Tur') which once lived in Poland (this is extinct species).

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