Beetle — cleaning cloth

Żuk Glasses Cloth

Microfiber cloth for cleaning glasses or LCD screens. Dimensions 15 cm x 15 cm.

FSC Żuk

Polish roads have seen many "żuks" (beetles). In this case, however, we are not referring to the popular Volkswagen Beetle, but to the Polish "delivery van" - the Żuk. The name covers an entire series of Polish delivery vehicles, produced by the Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych (Truck Factory) in Lublin between 1959 and 1998. The Żuk was a favourite of farmers, served postal workers from Poczta Polska (Polish Post), and sometimes even played the role of a fire engine. Like the iconic Maluch, the Żuk was a hero of everyday life for many Poles.

The T-shirt features a Żuk from 1967, which was a version with a wooden cargo bed that provided it with a payload capacity of 950 kg. Other variants of the Żuk were mainly used for transporting food products or clothing, but passenger models, i.e., minibuses, were also produced. In 1970, Żuks even began to be assembled in Egypt, and despite the obvious analogy, they were not called "Scarab", but Ramzes. The Egyptian ELTRAMCO factories assembled their Żuk-Ramzes until the 90s, with many modifications introduced along the way.

The production of Żuk was halted in 1998, when the number of units released reached 587,818. And although, in terms of numbers and sales, it was far behind the "beetle" Garbus, this does not mean that it was not a car particularly serving the common man. Its sharply outlined rectangular silhouette and the sad expression of its front bumper became iconic, and will be remembered for many years by working Poles of the Polish People's Republic era.

The drawing was created by Wrocław-based artist Paweł Grabowski.