Later on in my career I was sent by Time Magazine to the region during the time after the fall of the Berlin Wall when all of these nations were gaining independence - travelling south from Trieste Italy and then north from Thessaloniki Greece through Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia (and all it diverse parts), then Czechoslovakia, back in to Poland where I met my friend again in Zakopane after traveling through the Tatra Mountains. Still there were not many western cars around.
Great Model from DeAgostini Poland that was manufactured by IST of Macau
Most Poles drove the 126P as they were cheaper and the waiting period for the average Pole was about half that of the more powerful Polski Fiat 125P which was in turn based mechanically upon the 1960's Fiat 1500 and had the body of the new Fiat 125