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Mar 31, 2006 10:43:04 GMT
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I work opposite an accident repair centre, this just came in on a transporter destined for Norman Marshall International near Cranleigh. www.nmarshall.co.uk/It looks roadworthy, just a bit of gaffa tape on the frnt wings, interior looked good as well.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Lada going to breakersBenzBoy
@benzboy
Club Retro Rides Member 7
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Mar 31, 2006 11:21:26 GMT
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I hate seeing decent cars go to the scrappers . There's a Lada like that with black flames painted on the front that lives near me - I must flyer his car some time. To be honest I thought all the decent Ladas had been bought up / stolen by the Russian mafia and shipped back to their homeland!
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Mar 31, 2006 17:01:21 GMT
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That's a shame, it looks bloody lovely too, really doesn't deserve to be scrapped. (Maybe Lada were charging too much for balljoints for it? ) There was a white Riva running round Greenock until recently, bloody lovely it was too, but I haven't seen it in months, no idea what's happened to it but it looked too good for the scrappy as well so I hope it's still on the road somewhere. Incidentally, a (now deceased) friend of mine who had loads of Soviet motors had lots of Rivas bought back off him by Russian sailors and taken home to the former USSR, like you say Benzboy. It's often slightly exaggerated exactly how many of them were bought back up that way, and to be honest it was more often Red Navy guys who bought them legitimately to sell on back home, rather than the Mafia and ex-KGB types stealing them although there was supposedly a bit of that, but as far as I can tell it was mostly skint naval personnel (they were paid relatively well in the Soviet era but when the USSR started crumbling away Red Army, Navy and Air Force people often had to go without pay for outrageous lengths of time because their commanders had no money to give them) looking for a way to get some money back home to their families etc.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Mar 31, 2006 17:20:38 GMT
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Seems popular to scrap good cars and good stuff, as a serial hoarder its dificult visiting the concil tip. a guy came in wheeling a perfectly good kids BMX, so hard not so say owt, would if it'd been old skool. Its general mentality out with the old in with the new. don't get me wrong my tat gets in the way of my plans but its wasteful dumping in land fills IMO.
Seen a lot of Sound sierras stripped in the club recently theres a mint shell going to scrappers asap on there if anyone needs it. its that butterfly stage for Sierra's at the mo. they are presently squidgy worthless ugly catapillars, when a load get dumped, they (eventually, read long time) will be rare butterflys.
whos off to rescue tha lada?
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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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Mar 31, 2006 18:54:27 GMT
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once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears!
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Mar 31, 2006 19:58:42 GMT
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aww, bless i want that lada. funny you should mention that, in 94 we bought a Lada riva like that. one day my dad was called to the office at work, 'about his car'. he went down, and it turned out to be a pair of russians wanting to buy the lada and take back. he said no coz it was our only car at the time!
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