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Oct 23, 2007 17:40:11 GMT
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I had last week off work to look for a new car for the winter. I went to look at some modern dross, Mk 6 escorts and the like, and for the money they were asking the cars were wrecks. On friday I looked through Autotraders entire listing in an act of desperation to try and find something and found 'LADA (1)'. After laughing my bits off for about half an hour at the thought of buying a lada I called the number and it was still there. The folloing day me and dad trundled over to Beckenham in his maxi to have a look at it. A trader had it and thought of it as ' a piece of c##p', it was a one owner from new, 40,000, never been polished and as soon as he saw my dads car he said 'I'll cut the price and put 6 months tax on it if you can make it look half as good as that maxi'. It already had mot untill may so I threw the required cash at him, and drove it home, sideways!     Its a real hoot to drive so I think I'm going to keep it, it realy feels like its going to fall over going round corners so things need sorting in that department, ive had so many ideas going through my head for it that it'd be rude not too! The only problems ive got is getting spares for it, theres nothing on ebay! And there are quite afew rusty bits on it but nothing that cant be sorted. Since the pics were taken ive removed the horrid wheel trims, taken off the ugly, heavy and probably quite dangerous bumpers and given it a service and a polish. It gets some absolutly quality looks off people and authough I though the chicks aint gonna dig this, it worked last night, she got in the car with my mate and said 'Oooh, I love your car, its so old skool...' to which I thought 'hmmm, shes just being polite', wasnt till later that I realised how much she meant it!  If anyone has, or knows of ANY spares let me know! I think this might be the most unusual car ive ever owned, I cant remember the last time I saw one! One things for sure, its getting well and truley alarmed up! And new tyres, the brakes are great, suprisingly, but the tyres are curse word! |
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Last Edit: Oct 23, 2007 21:31:16 GMT by bmcnut
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Oct 23, 2007 17:54:29 GMT
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ever see the top gear lada?
/\ do that /\ lol
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Ruki
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Oct 23, 2007 17:59:16 GMT
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^^ LMAO! sounds brilliant yeah, drop it down to the floor, put some nice alloys on her, paint her black with red stripes, deep dish the rear alloys btw  And then put a hemy in the front  |
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Oct 23, 2007 18:24:00 GMT
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That top gear lada looked pants in my opinion. Wheels too big, car too high. Mine is probably going to get slammed, cleaned up in the original colour, and i know for sure what wheels are going on it. I'm going for a sort of retro south london look, which only seems right as it came from south london. Ive been told that a ford 2.8 V6 goes in on the original mounts, so you never know!
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Oct 23, 2007 18:30:17 GMT
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That top gear lada looked pants in my opinion. Wheels too big, car too high. Mine is probably going to get slammed, cleaned up in the original colour, and I know for sure what wheels are going on it. I'm going for a sort of retro south london look, which only seems right as it came from south london. Ive been told that a ford 2.8 V6 goes in on the original mounts, so you never know! Sounds like a plan...except for the V6 bit! I'd being looking at Fiat bits - just like Lada did. |
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61stu
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Oct 23, 2007 19:07:07 GMT
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quality boxyness she got in the car with my mate and said 'Oooh, I love your car, its so old skool...' to which I thought 'hmmm, shes just being polite', wasnt till later that I realised how much she meant it! And she definately sounds like a keeper |
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Oct 23, 2007 19:39:23 GMT
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quality boxyness she got in the car with my mate and said 'Oooh, I love your car, its so old skool...' to which I thought 'hmmm, shes just being polite', wasnt till later that I realised how much she meant it! And she definately sounds like a keeper She looks like one too She knows nothing about cars, she just likes old stuff, which to be honest, rocks big time! The fiat lump is a realy nice conversion, but i know people who can do silly things with a V6 on the cheap. Next on the mods list is a decent steering wheel. Ive had it hanging around for a while but its got a mini boss. Luckily we have an engineer at work and he reckons he can make it fit, which is good. Trouble is, the steering is sooo heavy that its going to be a nightmare parking it because the mini wheel is so small! Its got afew creaks at the front end when steering so thats probably making it worse. So we have a box on wheels that handles like a stoned hippo and wants to fall over every time you hang it round a corner. The steering heavy and the horn is on a flick switch on the dash, theres no radio and its got a choke, no electric nothing and no wing mirror on the passenger side. They made this in 1992 FFS! But i luv it! Its like a RWD Maxi saloon with marshmallos where the hydrolasitic units should be, and it seems scared to use any fuel. Its rubbish away from the lights but once its going its suprisingly quick(ish). |
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Oct 23, 2007 19:57:50 GMT
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Current Fleet
2006 Skoda Roomster 1.4 16v (Daily)
1990 Autozam Revue 1.5 Auto Canvas Top (Project)
1993 VW Transporter LWB 2.4D (Camper Project)
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1979 Skoda Estelle 120LS. (Project)
1982 Kip Kompakt 300 Caravan (Project)
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Oct 23, 2007 20:18:43 GMT
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Cheers chechered flag ill give that a go!
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Oct 23, 2007 21:03:27 GMT
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Does it have a CAT? If not youre sorted, CAT equipped ladas are very hrd to get through MOTS.
Lovely morah BTW!
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Last Edit: Oct 23, 2007 21:03:56 GMT by Lankytim
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Oct 23, 2007 21:28:01 GMT
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No cat on this one, its got points and a carb, which is fine!
I had a look on that lada forum and it looks like someone on there phoned up about this car just before i bought it, then called back 5 mins after I left to go home. I'm sooo sorry. There must have been about 8 calls about the car while i was there sorting put the insurance out!
The biggest rust problem i can see is the door window surrounds, they all look like they are about to fall off! the bottom halves of all the doors are mint so I'll probably get them welded, if its possable.
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Oct 23, 2007 21:37:03 GMT
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:)What a horrible car!
8-)Which makes me love it all the more! ;D
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planty
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Oct 23, 2007 22:19:32 GMT
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wow thats ugly, and a curse word primer colour too! cool  lots of potential there - good purchase! |
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but then that was a peugeot and they're generally made of cheese anyway ;D |
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i don't need to tell you it ticks many of my buttons! id keep the bus driver wheel, but lower it lots. south london usually means banded steels? |
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RetroMat
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Column Shifting!
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Davenger
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That rocks.
Gonna look great once it's slammed
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What, you thought we could have a Lada topic without bringing up this clip?
Watching this one with interest!
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stealthstylz
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Definetley following this one. A lada is top of my list to replace the uno if it fails the MOT in febuary.
Matt
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Cookie you said you always wanted an A60 well at least you got a car that handels the same. Drop it a few inches and put a fiat twin cam in it if you can find one and a set of banded steels.
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Stupid is as stupid does!
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Excellent save man! Ladas deserve some love. Maxis rule too, another one for the list! |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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