Cuban people are good at making solutions. We transform or adapt any car in order to keep them working. There is a model of Fiat made in Poland, that Cubans call “Polsky”. So, here you have a convertible version of this old car from the ’80s.
There are thousands of Fiat Polsky (Fiat type 126) in Cuba. Nowadays these are very popular because they consume just a few gallons of gasoline (small engines). It may be a problem their limit room but Cuban people don’t tend to be big size, so it is a comfortable car for the family.
Some history from Wikipedia
The 126 used much of the same mechanical underpinnings and layout as its Fiat 500 rear-engined predecessor with which it shared its wheelbase but featured an all-new bodyshell resembling a scaled-down Fiat 127, also enhancing safety.
The front footwells, suspension, battery, and spare wheel left little room for luggage in the 126 front trunks.
Engine capacity was increased from 594 cc to 652 cc at the end of 1977 when the cylinder bore was increased from 73.5 to 77 mm.[5] Claimed power output was unchanged at 23 hp (17 kW), but the torque was increased from 39 N⋅m (29 lb-ft) to 43-newton meters (32 lb-ft).[5] The 594 cc engines were still available in early 1983 production.
A subsequent increase took the engine size to 704 cc in the new “restyling” model Fiat 126 Bis (1987–1991), with 26 hp (19 kW) of motive power.
Fiat 126 (second from left) at the Auto Italia, Stanford Hall, 2010
In Italy, the car was produced in the plants of Cassino and Termini Imerese until 1979. By this time 1,352,912 of the cars had been produced in Italy.
The car was also produced under license by Zastava in Yugoslavia.
Despite clever marketing, the 126 never achieved the frenzied popularity of the 500 in Western Europe. The total number of 126 produced is 1,352,912 in Italy, 3,318,674 in Poland, 2,069 in Austria, and an unknown number in Yugoslavia. For a brief period in the early 1990s, a German company called POP also offered convertible versions of the 126 BIS. Two models were offered: a lesser equipped one called the “POP 650” and a more luxurious model called the “POP 2000”.
