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I was disappointed that it wasn't a Russian wives dating site :lol: but that is one of the best collections of strange metal I have ever seen. Gone straight into my Favourites. The best one for me is the cool dudes in the open top Lada - looks like they just went at it with an angle grinder

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Very arousing. Not Skoda-based actually, but a ZAZ on a LuAZ chassis and with a LuAZ front end. The Lada pickups there, with the welded-up rear doors, are actually factory models, produced (and unpopular) for a couple of years in the 90s. I think the Samara cabrio might be a factory limited series model too. Ingenious...

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Matt black thing is Samara based. The Multipla lookalike is closer than you think - it's based on a Zaporojhetz (sp?!), which originally started out making a model very heavily based on the Fiat 600. This is a later model (968 I think) which normally looks very much like a Prinz, and is still rear-engined. The green hybrid was once an IZH. IZH made hatchback, van and pick-up versions of the Moskvich 408/412/1500 series. I also thought the back was a Mk 3 Escort, but it could also be an early Astra/Kadett van. Looks a bit more angular if you see what I mean. How many points do I get?!

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Google search comfirms Escortiness. Gin frazzles the brain; apologies. On a similar note, here's a collection of pre-war Euroshite in glorious messed-up condition. It's not that they've been left to rot in a barn for the lasg 50 years, just that they've been kept going with the help of glorious bodges. Most of them would have still been on the road after the collapse of the Iron Curtain ... I love the tractor wheels, the Volga bumpers and the disgracefully awkward tail lights; my favourite, though, has to be the Hebmuller Admiral cabriolet which was just welded up....http://samohod.com.ua/collection/zarubej.htm

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