If the body is strong enough to survive a Calgary hail storm I’m sold.
My brother, since passed, purchased one of these in the 90s with a propane conversion for commuting purposes.
He spontaneously decided to use it for a bonfire upon its retirement for his kid’s amusement.
Well, when the tanks went up in a mushroom cloud the neighbours were summoned to extinguish the bush fire.
I distanced myself at this point.
lol A good way way to kill 8 minutes. Neighbour had a Lada, lasted two weeks then sat in his driveway for 2 years. Every so often we would get it going. What a piece of junk.
I had one for two years. Literally drove it coast to coast – from Saskatoon to Halifax (after a 6 week stop in Petawawa), and then from Saskatoon to Chilliwack when CFOCS was there. Actually was mostly reliable, even when flames were coming out the air intake of the carburetor! Windshield wipers would stop working after about 10 minutes of rain! But I never had to boost it in the winter. Not a comfortable car for long road trips, but the 14 year old Chevy wouldn’t have made it.
An awful POS, seen a lot of those in my childhood. Far from the worst communist cars of its era but still a POS. Please note that if you have ever seen a Lada in Canada or US you have seen a top shelf deluxe model. Yes really. The fit and finish was much better, the quality of components and interior too. The cars sent to the West tended to be built only Tuesday to Thursday (most of the workers were more or less sober) and not by a night shift (prisoner labour).
Also Mongols aren’t Slavs. :p
Buddy had a red one in high school 1988. I had broken collar bone over New Year’s Eve. So I’m the sober driver with buddy shifting gears. As I recall the clutch, steering and brakes all had “play” in them. Scariest ride of my life.
He nicknamed his red car “the blue flame”
Because of the colour of the smoke.
One comment on them here was “How do you double the value of your Lada?”
“Fill the fuel tank”
A man walks into a Lada dealership and says, “I’d like a hubcap for my Lada,” so the dealer says: ” that sounds like a fair swap.”
The Lada will be legendary for its reliability compared to the Trudeau Electric Car.
Canada’s answer to the Cult of Calamitous Climate and response to auto manufacturing moving south.
the Trudeau Electric Car
Well, the Bricklin came and went during Daddy’s tenure, didn’t it?
The Lada will be legendary for its reliability compared to the Trudeau Electric Car.
Canada’s answer to the Cult of Calamitous Climate and response to auto manufacturing moving south.
Dammit, Another Ian, you stole my thunder!!!
We had a guy at work who bought a Lada… He copped (unintentional pun, sorry) a lot of flack because of how it looked parked between our cars, or worse, marked Police vehicles – often getting asked if it had been seized or something by staff who knew it was his! Fed up, he once threatened to go down and scratch any car parked in the Station that was better than his Lada; everyone laughed (except him) when I wryly commented that he’d have to vandalise every other car on both carpark levels to carry out that threat…
Might be the first record of a Lada creating thunder to steal? But shows the thought crossed oceans and most of us weren’t on the internet then.
I knew the mechanic at the local dealership that had a Lada agency for a while and the one comment I remember was to do with having to be religious on the cam chain tension adjustment.
Indeed…!
I should have explained that I didn’t develop the petrol tank comment myself; I heard it stated on a car radio once by some radio host! I always meant to ask the Highway Patrol guys how often Ladas got defected; the ones that didn’t just crash, conk out, fall apart or blow up, I mean…!!!
Many years ago while vacationing in Jamaica I hired a driver for a couple of days rather than rent a car, it was actually cheaper than a car rental at the time. The fellow, Vern, knew every square inch of Jamaica and we went to places many tourists never see. The vehicle was a blue Lada wagon, with gold coloured rims. It was spotless and every time we stopped somewhere for any length of time Vern would take out a special cloth he had and wipe down some part of the car. My one and only Lada experience.
If the body is strong enough to survive a Calgary hail storm I’m sold.
My brother, since passed, purchased one of these in the 90s with a propane conversion for commuting purposes.
He spontaneously decided to use it for a bonfire upon its retirement for his kid’s amusement.
Well, when the tanks went up in a mushroom cloud the neighbours were summoned to extinguish the bush fire.
I distanced myself at this point.
lol A good way way to kill 8 minutes. Neighbour had a Lada, lasted two weeks then sat in his driveway for 2 years. Every so often we would get it going. What a piece of junk.
I had one for two years. Literally drove it coast to coast – from Saskatoon to Halifax (after a 6 week stop in Petawawa), and then from Saskatoon to Chilliwack when CFOCS was there. Actually was mostly reliable, even when flames were coming out the air intake of the carburetor! Windshield wipers would stop working after about 10 minutes of rain! But I never had to boost it in the winter. Not a comfortable car for long road trips, but the 14 year old Chevy wouldn’t have made it.
An awful POS, seen a lot of those in my childhood. Far from the worst communist cars of its era but still a POS. Please note that if you have ever seen a Lada in Canada or US you have seen a top shelf deluxe model. Yes really. The fit and finish was much better, the quality of components and interior too. The cars sent to the West tended to be built only Tuesday to Thursday (most of the workers were more or less sober) and not by a night shift (prisoner labour).
Also Mongols aren’t Slavs. :p
Buddy had a red one in high school 1988. I had broken collar bone over New Year’s Eve. So I’m the sober driver with buddy shifting gears. As I recall the clutch, steering and brakes all had “play” in them. Scariest ride of my life.
He nicknamed his red car “the blue flame”
Because of the colour of the smoke.
One comment on them here was “How do you double the value of your Lada?”
“Fill the fuel tank”
A man walks into a Lada dealership and says, “I’d like a hubcap for my Lada,” so the dealer says: ” that sounds like a fair swap.”
The Lada will be legendary for its reliability compared to the Trudeau Electric Car.
Canada’s answer to the Cult of Calamitous Climate and response to auto manufacturing moving south.
the Trudeau Electric Car
Well, the Bricklin came and went during Daddy’s tenure, didn’t it?
The Lada will be legendary for its reliability compared to the Trudeau Electric Car.
Canada’s answer to the Cult of Calamitous Climate and response to auto manufacturing moving south.
Dammit, Another Ian, you stole my thunder!!!
We had a guy at work who bought a Lada… He copped (unintentional pun, sorry) a lot of flack because of how it looked parked between our cars, or worse, marked Police vehicles – often getting asked if it had been seized or something by staff who knew it was his! Fed up, he once threatened to go down and scratch any car parked in the Station that was better than his Lada; everyone laughed (except him) when I wryly commented that he’d have to vandalise every other car on both carpark levels to carry out that threat…
Might be the first record of a Lada creating thunder to steal? But shows the thought crossed oceans and most of us weren’t on the internet then.
I knew the mechanic at the local dealership that had a Lada agency for a while and the one comment I remember was to do with having to be religious on the cam chain tension adjustment.
Indeed…!
I should have explained that I didn’t develop the petrol tank comment myself; I heard it stated on a car radio once by some radio host! I always meant to ask the Highway Patrol guys how often Ladas got defected; the ones that didn’t just crash, conk out, fall apart or blow up, I mean…!!!
Many years ago while vacationing in Jamaica I hired a driver for a couple of days rather than rent a car, it was actually cheaper than a car rental at the time. The fellow, Vern, knew every square inch of Jamaica and we went to places many tourists never see. The vehicle was a blue Lada wagon, with gold coloured rims. It was spotless and every time we stopped somewhere for any length of time Vern would take out a special cloth he had and wipe down some part of the car. My one and only Lada experience.
I had a lada love for my pony!!