The Al Tarish's Garage Tour: A Closer Look at his Latest Find

As I stepped into the garage, I was immediately struck by the eclectic mix of cars and parts that seemed to fill every inch of space. The air was thick with the smell of grease and oil, and the sound of tools clanging against metal filled the air. It was clear that this was a place where creativity and experimentation reigned supreme.

My host, Al Tarish, greeted me warmly and led me on a tour of his latest acquisition - a 1986 car that had been lovingly restored to its former glory. As we walked around the vehicle, I couldn't help but notice the numerous rust spots and dings that seemed to cover every surface. But despite its rough exterior, the car seemed sturdy and solid, with everything appearing to be in working order.

"What's this thing?" I asked Al, pointing to a strange device attached to the underside of the car.

"Ah, those are some old-fashioned anti-sway bar end links," he replied with a chuckle. "I've been thinking about upgrading to something more modern, but for now, these will do just fine."

As we continued our tour, I couldn't help but be impressed by the sheer amount of work that had gone into restoring this car. The owner had opted for an all-original approach, rather than using modern conveniences like disc brakes in both the front and rear. Instead, he'd stuck with the more traditional setup, which seemed to pay dividends in terms of reliability.

One of the most interesting features of the car was the lack of rust that seemed to plague so many vehicles in this era. I asked Al if he had any secrets for keeping his metalwork corrosion-free, and he smiled knowingly. "I've got a few tricks up my sleeve," he said with a wink. "Let's just say it involves a lot of elbow grease and some good old-fashioned TLC."

As we made our way to the back of the garage, I spotted a strange contraption that looked like it had been cobbled together from spare parts. Al noticed my interest and grinned mischievously. "That's one of my favorite projects," he said. "I'm not entirely sure what it does, but I think it might be something to do with shipping or transporting... maybe even a ski rack?"

The device itself was slotted into place on either side of the car, and seemed to serve no discernible purpose other than holding things in place. Al laughed when he saw my confusion, telling me that it was probably just something he'd cobbled together from spare parts without much thought.

After our tour of the garage, I decided to take the car for a spin and see how it handled on the road. As I slipped into the driver's seat, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. What would this old girl have in store for me?

The ride was surprisingly smooth, with the engine purring along like a contented cat. But as we hit the open road, I began to realize just how much the car was being asked to do. The suspension seemed stiff, and the handling was occasionally loose, but overall it rode like a dream.

As we pulled back into the garage, Al grinned at me with a knowing glint in his eye. "Not too shabby for an old girl, huh?" he said with a chuckle.

And that's where I left off our tour of Al Tarish's garage - with a newfound appreciation for this quirky car and its eccentric owner. Whether you're a seasoned mechanic or just someone who appreciates the beauty in a well-restored vehicle, this is definitely a story worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI can't see myself but how's it going guys how's it going guys my name is thear and you're joining me in a very hot garage but it's going to get a little bit cooler God that's a horrible fun that is a horrible fun how's it going guys my name is toar and today is an awesome day in my garage because I have one of the cars that pretty much made my childhood okay I'm lying it's a Yugo oh yeah all right so I'm kicking off this new series of me taking a look at really uh interesting Automobiles and uh dare I say quirky cars in my garage with this thing this is a 1986 Yugo GV and this was famous for being pretty much the cheapest thing you can get with a motor a steering wheel and four wheels this at the time of its Inception was $3,995 and while you might think wow that's a really good deal uh they did skimp on a lot of the quality so what we're going to do today is we're going to take a look at everything in this car but not only the uh interesting features or lack thereof we're going to put it on the lift we're going to put it we're going to go underneath the car and uh let you look at the awesome mechanical uh prowess that the engineers uh had when they design this thing because you guys you got to see this this is insane this is one of my favorite things about the door ooh that's just so solid it's the door is itself is actually pretty heavy for a car this small and it just it's so satisfying hopefully I don't break anything but yeah that that is a good sound all right on to the car well okay um we are two large dudes in a very small car and it's uh it's a hot garage so uh do with that information what you must but this is Austin he has an awesome YouTube channel called Austin's garage and this Yugo is actually the uh subject of a bunch of your videos I I make videos on this I have another Yugo and then I have an old postal jeep that I'm just trying to make not crap what yeah okay so uh yeah if you like really crappy cars kind of made uh into daily drivers then hit them up um I will have all that stuff in the destion below but right now we're looking at this Yugo and actually this was the Yugo that was in Doug de's video right yeah um he came down from Philadelphia and he made a video on the car and um since then I can't drive anywhere with it without people asking is that is that the car from Doug's video right right okay so uh Doug made this guy famous but hopefully hopefully we can help him out a little bit more um so what can you tell me about this interior that people don't already know people know that this interior is really it's it's not the best quality uh to be be perfectly honest there are panel gaps everywhere but it is all here it it is original I see a original cassette deck I see uh the original it's not a climate control it's more like a it lets some air in it just lets some air in what should I know going like what what are these for these these blank switches here um those do nothing in the GV but you get the GV plus those do something so even in a car that was $3,995 there were still you should have worked harder s does the speedometer work no okay does the fuel gauge work no fuel gauge does not work okay um it goes it moves it goes from empty to half full but it doesn't matter regardless of how much is in there so FM AM FM AM um that was a big deal back then FM that sort of worked right it it it works um you have to hold the um all right here's how good Yo's radio reception is radio's on it's staticky as hell do it all right well there we go but it's a cool car I mean it's you can't get any other car for $1,000 that gives you this kind of experience yeah I I don't think so either you have a home wiring uh sort of uh light switch Yeah like a kitchen light switch what's that about the radiat fan just wasn't working once I ruled out the radiat fan wasn't working I figured I could just homewire it in I need to get a aftermarket switch panel but why don't you just wire it into a relay that uh gets turned on with your accessory drive because I didn't think of it cuz all you had was a switch and all I had all I had was a switch and I saw it I'm like this will do so every time I drive I just reach down flip the switch and it works see I love that you adopt not only did you buy this car uh later on um after this car was already old and used but you've adopted the Yugo mentality I this exactly what they would have done anybody that owned one that they would have used the light switch the the exhaust that they'll see is duct tape the thing with the youo you can't spend too much money on it because I mean even though I'm theoretic I'm not planning on ever selling it um I don't want to drop too much money into it it's a youo what I think we should do is we should go under the hood and uh kind of root around in there and then put the car up and we can look at the under underpinnings of this a everything that is wrong with it will I've never had it up on a lift so we'll okay first time for me as well yeah so lift version okay let's do that oh yeah so that is a 1.1 L Fiat engine with a carburetor on top making how much power um it says it came with 45 I'm guessing it makes substantially less now all right so 45 when it was brand new and uh uh that is a spare tire that is also part of the crumple Zone but there's a weird interesting deadly Quirk with uh with that thing because apparently when you crash this thing hard enough that'll cut off your legs so I know that it might seem like an airbag like it's a it's kind of a natural air cushion but uh that steel portion pretty much acts like a guillotine for your nether regions so if you have this car don't crash this is an engine bay from 1986 and it actually is pretty clean uh even if you did clean it it's uh it's not in bad shape I don't see a a whole ton of rust uh down here you usually see these things rust out but uh it's it's in really really good shape it's a tiny radiator look at that do you know if this cap actually works I've no never never attempted to open it I okay it cools the car so I don't touch it if it works don't fix what any broken okay well that's that is a very Yugo thing to say uh so that's the engine it's front-wheel drive obviously four forward gears with a really lanky really weird shifter let's get it up in the air and see what's underneath taada okay let's uh let's see what this thing has in store for us there actually isn't a lot going on down here it's very very Spartan so here you see the shifter linkage and uh that really really janky shifter linkage actually it looks looks almost like you can tighten that bolt right there and uh and fix it so we might might do that and give uh give Austin a little uh little better car than it came here with but if you take a look at this exhaust those of you who are complaining about my welding in my Mercedes video take a look at this this is uh actual uh chicken welding that looks it might not even be chicken looks like dog welding that's really really bad I don't know how that works and you can see that it's leaking all over the place here uh follow that back and this looks like an aftermarket cat it's a 2in cat and they uh got it down to a I don't know 1 and 3/4 then a 1 and a half this is a tiny tiny exhaust but then again it's a tiny engine it's only 1100 CC's and that goes into another back box that's welded horribly and that's actually resting on the ebrake cable uh that is a structural component at this point because look I'm touching the E bra cable and it's moving the exhaust and is that uh is that insulation up there is that uh is that duct tape that we see on the on the exhaust yeah that's what it is okay cool so it's uh it's very well insulated it's a it's a racing mod uh that's that's awesome it adds an extra 10 horsepower adds an extra 10 horsepower that's uh that's great may I mean I have some more you can add some more horsepower let's go up to the front of the car and uh take a look at the engine which is uh let me get some more light on here is this fuel or oil that's leaking out from here here oil oil that could just use a a bit of a snug up and uh the rest is I mean there's there's weeping everywhere it's sort of like an old diesel like my old uh F350 it it Leakes from everywhere but it's not really too concerning those uh there's axle axle boots that are ripped and they make a clanking sound but that's that's not a not not such a big deal but look how rudimentary this setup is this is the anti- sway bar it's the anti-roll bar rather and it's just slotted in on the control arm and there's no end links or anything it's just literally slotted in and bolted down and there's no adjustment what I like is that there are front discs front disc brakes and for a car that's $4,000 in 1986 that's that's actually a big deal uh it didn't have discs in the rear There Goes My circuit breaker let's don't live in Florida people it's really hot circuit breakers go all the time okay so Austin just found found something really interesting uh so apparently they cut this thing uh in situ and uh where where they cut the old cat out you can see that the hacksaw made it made its way into the car right there so uh yeah that's that's fun honestly this car is I like the design of this car everything is it looks sturdy uh there isn't any real egregious rust that I see uh I mean my 99 Lexus IS way worse than this and especially considering that this car was thin skinned to begin with it is in remarkably good shape this is an all original car and uh it definitely looks like it it is a driver uh and it does have a lot of faults but nothing that I consider really really bad I mean you should definitely change those uh ball joints and and uh axle boots but yeah it it looks it looks real good man and it's actually what what the hell are these things no clue what's that that that almost looks like something that they'd use for shipping or uh or transporting because they're on both sides and it looks like they'd slot in something for a uh like a forklift or something so if any of you know in the comments what these things are for uh if they're for an extra I don't know set of rock rails or or or uh you know a ski holder or something just uh let me know in the comments but I'm interested knowing what that is but man this thing is uh this thing is awesome thanks for thanks for bringing it Austin no problem all right guys well I'm going to go take this thing for a ride and honestly I don't know if I want to record the the ride review because you guys have seen Ride reviews in the past especially with this car uh Doug's done one Doug deuro if you haven't uh you haven't seen that but uh you let me know would you like me to uh take these cars uh take the cars that I'm going to get in my garage on a ride and then give you my Impressions or do you like just seeing the mechanical parts or do you want both or whatever let me know in the comments it's a team effort and I enjoy every feedback back every piece of feedback that you guys give me so uh yeah thanks for that but I will end the video there so as always I'd like you to uh subscribe if you like this video um it would really really help me out if you'd like to support me and uh what I do and the work I do on cars and you want to see cars like this and uh cool people like Austin show up um you can actually go in the link in the description and buy one of my shirts this is a wrench everyday shirt this one isn't for sale because it's mine and it's also very sweaty but you can get one of your own and it can be actually uh pretty clean but I want you to get a dirty that's right these shirts are for wrenching so if you buy a shirt I want you to send me a picture and I will show it on my channel uh how dirty it gets and what car mods you guys do with the shirts on I want to see all that stuff uh and that would make me really happy but if you'd like to contact me for any reason you want to ask me a question or uh tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I'm doing right you can find me on Instagram and Twitter that is theal tarish and facebook.com/ aarish aarish gmail.com is my email and I do get to every single email all right so this is me in my really hot garage and uh this is me telling you that life is too short to drive boring carsI can't see myself but how's it going guys how's it going guys my name is thear and you're joining me in a very hot garage but it's going to get a little bit cooler God that's a horrible fun that is a horrible fun how's it going guys my name is toar and today is an awesome day in my garage because I have one of the cars that pretty much made my childhood okay I'm lying it's a Yugo oh yeah all right so I'm kicking off this new series of me taking a look at really uh interesting Automobiles and uh dare I say quirky cars in my garage with this thing this is a 1986 Yugo GV and this was famous for being pretty much the cheapest thing you can get with a motor a steering wheel and four wheels this at the time of its Inception was $3,995 and while you might think wow that's a really good deal uh they did skimp on a lot of the quality so what we're going to do today is we're going to take a look at everything in this car but not only the uh interesting features or lack thereof we're going to put it on the lift we're going to put it we're going to go underneath the car and uh let you look at the awesome mechanical uh prowess that the engineers uh had when they design this thing because you guys you got to see this this is insane this is one of my favorite things about the door ooh that's just so solid it's the door is itself is actually pretty heavy for a car this small and it just it's so satisfying hopefully I don't break anything but yeah that that is a good sound all right on to the car well okay um we are two large dudes in a very small car and it's uh it's a hot garage so uh do with that information what you must but this is Austin he has an awesome YouTube channel called Austin's garage and this Yugo is actually the uh subject of a bunch of your videos I I make videos on this I have another Yugo and then I have an old postal jeep that I'm just trying to make not crap what yeah okay so uh yeah if you like really crappy cars kind of made uh into daily drivers then hit them up um I will have all that stuff in the destion below but right now we're looking at this Yugo and actually this was the Yugo that was in Doug de's video right yeah um he came down from Philadelphia and he made a video on the car and um since then I can't drive anywhere with it without people asking is that is that the car from Doug's video right right okay so uh Doug made this guy famous but hopefully hopefully we can help him out a little bit more um so what can you tell me about this interior that people don't already know people know that this interior is really it's it's not the best quality uh to be be perfectly honest there are panel gaps everywhere but it is all here it it is original I see a original cassette deck I see uh the original it's not a climate control it's more like a it lets some air in it just lets some air in what should I know going like what what are these for these these blank switches here um those do nothing in the GV but you get the GV plus those do something so even in a car that was $3,995 there were still you should have worked harder s does the speedometer work no okay does the fuel gauge work no fuel gauge does not work okay um it goes it moves it goes from empty to half full but it doesn't matter regardless of how much is in there so FM AM FM AM um that was a big deal back then FM that sort of worked right it it it works um you have to hold the um all right here's how good Yo's radio reception is radio's on it's staticky as hell do it all right well there we go but it's a cool car I mean it's you can't get any other car for $1,000 that gives you this kind of experience yeah I I don't think so either you have a home wiring uh sort of uh light switch Yeah like a kitchen light switch what's that about the radiat fan just wasn't working once I ruled out the radiat fan wasn't working I figured I could just homewire it in I need to get a aftermarket switch panel but why don't you just wire it into a relay that uh gets turned on with your accessory drive because I didn't think of it cuz all you had was a switch and all I had all I had was a switch and I saw it I'm like this will do so every time I drive I just reach down flip the switch and it works see I love that you adopt not only did you buy this car uh later on um after this car was already old and used but you've adopted the Yugo mentality I this exactly what they would have done anybody that owned one that they would have used the light switch the the exhaust that they'll see is duct tape the thing with the youo you can't spend too much money on it because I mean even though I'm theoretic I'm not planning on ever selling it um I don't want to drop too much money into it it's a youo what I think we should do is we should go under the hood and uh kind of root around in there and then put the car up and we can look at the under underpinnings of this a everything that is wrong with it will I've never had it up on a lift so we'll okay first time for me as well yeah so lift version okay let's do that oh yeah so that is a 1.1 L Fiat engine with a carburetor on top making how much power um it says it came with 45 I'm guessing it makes substantially less now all right so 45 when it was brand new and uh uh that is a spare tire that is also part of the crumple Zone but there's a weird interesting deadly Quirk with uh with that thing because apparently when you crash this thing hard enough that'll cut off your legs so I know that it might seem like an airbag like it's a it's kind of a natural air cushion but uh that steel portion pretty much acts like a guillotine for your nether regions so if you have this car don't crash this is an engine bay from 1986 and it actually is pretty clean uh even if you did clean it it's uh it's not in bad shape I don't see a a whole ton of rust uh down here you usually see these things rust out but uh it's it's in really really good shape it's a tiny radiator look at that do you know if this cap actually works I've no never never attempted to open it I okay it cools the car so I don't touch it if it works don't fix what any broken okay well that's that is a very Yugo thing to say uh so that's the engine it's front-wheel drive obviously four forward gears with a really lanky really weird shifter let's get it up in the air and see what's underneath taada okay let's uh let's see what this thing has in store for us there actually isn't a lot going on down here it's very very Spartan so here you see the shifter linkage and uh that really really janky shifter linkage actually it looks looks almost like you can tighten that bolt right there and uh and fix it so we might might do that and give uh give Austin a little uh little better car than it came here with but if you take a look at this exhaust those of you who are complaining about my welding in my Mercedes video take a look at this this is uh actual uh chicken welding that looks it might not even be chicken looks like dog welding that's really really bad I don't know how that works and you can see that it's leaking all over the place here uh follow that back and this looks like an aftermarket cat it's a 2in cat and they uh got it down to a I don't know 1 and 3/4 then a 1 and a half this is a tiny tiny exhaust but then again it's a tiny engine it's only 1100 CC's and that goes into another back box that's welded horribly and that's actually resting on the ebrake cable uh that is a structural component at this point because look I'm touching the E bra cable and it's moving the exhaust and is that uh is that insulation up there is that uh is that duct tape that we see on the on the exhaust yeah that's what it is okay cool so it's uh it's very well insulated it's a it's a racing mod uh that's that's awesome it adds an extra 10 horsepower adds an extra 10 horsepower that's uh that's great may I mean I have some more you can add some more horsepower let's go up to the front of the car and uh take a look at the engine which is uh let me get some more light on here is this fuel or oil that's leaking out from here here oil oil that could just use a a bit of a snug up and uh the rest is I mean there's there's weeping everywhere it's sort of like an old diesel like my old uh F350 it it Leakes from everywhere but it's not really too concerning those uh there's axle axle boots that are ripped and they make a clanking sound but that's that's not a not not such a big deal but look how rudimentary this setup is this is the anti- sway bar it's the anti-roll bar rather and it's just slotted in on the control arm and there's no end links or anything it's just literally slotted in and bolted down and there's no adjustment what I like is that there are front discs front disc brakes and for a car that's $4,000 in 1986 that's that's actually a big deal uh it didn't have discs in the rear There Goes My circuit breaker let's don't live in Florida people it's really hot circuit breakers go all the time okay so Austin just found found something really interesting uh so apparently they cut this thing uh in situ and uh where where they cut the old cat out you can see that the hacksaw made it made its way into the car right there so uh yeah that's that's fun honestly this car is I like the design of this car everything is it looks sturdy uh there isn't any real egregious rust that I see uh I mean my 99 Lexus IS way worse than this and especially considering that this car was thin skinned to begin with it is in remarkably good shape this is an all original car and uh it definitely looks like it it is a driver uh and it does have a lot of faults but nothing that I consider really really bad I mean you should definitely change those uh ball joints and and uh axle boots but yeah it it looks it looks real good man and it's actually what what the hell are these things no clue what's that that that almost looks like something that they'd use for shipping or uh or transporting because they're on both sides and it looks like they'd slot in something for a uh like a forklift or something so if any of you know in the comments what these things are for uh if they're for an extra I don't know set of rock rails or or or uh you know a ski holder or something just uh let me know in the comments but I'm interested knowing what that is but man this thing is uh this thing is awesome thanks for thanks for bringing it Austin no problem all right guys well I'm going to go take this thing for a ride and honestly I don't know if I want to record the the ride review because you guys have seen Ride reviews in the past especially with this car uh Doug's done one Doug deuro if you haven't uh you haven't seen that but uh you let me know would you like me to uh take these cars uh take the cars that I'm going to get in my garage on a ride and then give you my Impressions or do you like just seeing the mechanical parts or do you want both or whatever let me know in the comments it's a team effort and I enjoy every feedback back every piece of feedback that you guys give me so uh yeah thanks for that but I will end the video there so as always I'd like you to uh subscribe if you like this video um it would really really help me out if you'd like to support me and uh what I do and the work I do on cars and you want to see cars like this and uh cool people like Austin show up um you can actually go in the link in the description and buy one of my shirts this is a wrench everyday shirt this one isn't for sale because it's mine and it's also very sweaty but you can get one of your own and it can be actually uh pretty clean but I want you to get a dirty that's right these shirts are for wrenching so if you buy a shirt I want you to send me a picture and I will show it on my channel uh how dirty it gets and what car mods you guys do with the shirts on I want to see all that stuff uh and that would make me really happy but if you'd like to contact me for any reason you want to ask me a question or uh tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I'm doing right you can find me on Instagram and Twitter that is theal tarish and facebook.com/ aarish aarish gmail.com is my email and I do get to every single email all right so this is me in my really hot garage and uh this is me telling you that life is too short to drive boring cars\n"