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SSSHHHH!!! Ill buy that Lada if it doesnt go above $1000, How cool does it look. The GTST is up for rego and is about to cost me $1500 just for rego:( Man how big a nitrous kit would i need so that i can tow the GTST to the track:)

Id buy a spare Lada and leave the spare in the street for the drunakrds and to annoy neighbours. House prices in the street drop with wreck of car housign the homeless, so in say 18 months you can even buy up the property cheaply when people get fed up and move out:)

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Greg - Hehe, I went my own Mythbusters style on it.

I tested that old wives tale that driving a car around with a blown head gasket is bad.

Ah... there may be some element of truth to that one...

The eBay Lada is really tempting.

Rego is $550 (more than the car :)) or whatever - so for under $1k I can have twins!

A summer Lada and a winter Lada. Am thinking the plate could be 'CCCP', 'MOSCOW' or even 'THEKGB'... hmmmm

Plus, a buyer for Golgo is looking good - he's down at ICE getting an RWC check done.

Hmmmm some more...

It surpassed the Cold War.

It surpassed Communnism.

It surpassed a red Civic, a white Subaru and nearly a Purple GTR...

But yesterday the Lada finally decided it could no longer surpass a blown head gasket, a non-firing cylinder and cracked engine block. At about 2.00pm - on Chapel St - the very dirty Lada Niva GTR Cabrio with a life record of 40 awkw finally seized and died.

Anyhoo... what now?

Well - one friend suggest I crush it into a cube, place a piece of glass on it and have a swanky (yet very heavy) coffee table. I hate him.

Personally - I'm thinking engine swap to 2.0L Fiat twin-cam with twin webbers. There was one converted a while ago to a VG30DE using an R33 sedan auto box. Cool - but probably overkill.

What are your thoughts?

I'm open to ideas?

:)

I vote for the glow in the dark lada coffee table !

mike

The webbers would sound wicked, but would probably have less go that before? It will however, make some damn good noise!

Then there's the problem of mating it to the gearbox :|

Grammar fixed :)

Actually the 1.8L & 2.0L Fiat and Lancia motors bold right in!

The Lada is about 70% Fiat (motor, gearbox, fittings). The only fabrication is a new sump to fit over the 4WD diffs.

Even the 2.0L 16v turbo motor from a Lancia Delta Integrale would fit.

Rare. Expensive. But badass!

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Take it back to the dealer. It should still be under warranty :)

Hehe - yeah, Crazy Vaclav's Place of Automobiles...

Homer: What country was this car from?

Crazy Vaclav: It no longer exists. Put it in 'H'!

It's funny cause its true.

It even has a lever marked 'H'.

There was a doco about Chernobyl a few years back saying that anything produced in Russia in the effected fallout areas would have a level of radioactivity far above the norm. The Togliatti factory (largest car manufacturing plant in the world) was downwind of the powerplant...

probably why it lasted so long :microwave :microwave :microwave

You can use it as a storage box.. that's what the Kazelle is currently doing!

I'll trade you 59 bottles of Baileys for the Gazelle ;D

Pull the lights off and you could probably sell the Lada to some Amish people...

Or it could probably serve as a taxi in Mexico or similiar for at least another 10 years in its present condition :stupid:

Update: I'm strongly considering being sneaky re: the eBay Niva...

My rego sticker says 'Red 88 Lada S-Wag' - I have 11 months left on rego.

I could buy the eBay one for 500 clams - and just put the EXKGB plates on it!

Same car. Same colour. Would be just like adding a roof to my Niva!

Then I can pull the cabrio to bits and begin 'Project Red Storm' - 2.0L twin-cam with camo paint! It almost sounds too easy...

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