1995 lada riva estate.

Another build thread? Yh Rly.

I’ve had this stashed since November last year.
I saw it come up for sale, it wasn’t that cheap but I sort of new the seller, and I had unfinished business with one of these due to the fire. I went and had a look at it as it was local, and an offer took it. This is the ebay listing I bought it from.




















The other one (a black 1500 estate) id given to the mrs as she expressed interest in wanting it, and it was a week or two away from being on the road, but as I had so much else to deal with post-fire she said to just forget about it. Which we did, I just canned it (well, sold the burnt out shell to a banger racer) and moved on.
But when this one came up for sale locally I had to have it to replace the one she’d lost.
I even kept it a secret from her, for the best part of a year until recently when i accidentally called at the yard with her with me and I’d left it parked out front of the workshop 😖😂

She was actually fairly impressed is gone to the trouble of finding such a similar car and buying it for her again though, so it went down pretty well.

Here it is being delivered.


It’s only done 43k, and was sold as having been dry stored for nearly 20 years. It is is rather amazing condition, never welded and only needing minor attention in that department.



I found out the other week the the 20 years dry stored was an understatement, as it appears it’s never had an MOT!



The guy I got it off had done little with it, but the guy it he got it off had stripped the intent out and done various bizarre weight saving mods to it, like removing the heater and cutting the bonnet inner skin out. Was gunna be a ‘track car’ apparently, even though it was otherwise totally stock. 🙄 ladas always seem to attract weirdos.