Andrew353w Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Sam, TRULY EPIC!!! What a find and in what looks (at first sight) quite decent nick! The story behind this find needs telling.... My Fedora has been suitably donned... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I wonder if the Liberta was ever sold in English-speaking countries? I'm going to guess that those brochures were an attempt to claw back a few UK Dacia dealerships. 'Liberta' suggests post-revolution, early 90s.Pretty poor attempt though, this thing makes a Favorit look advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I want to have hot man-sex with that car, all day, every day. OP, you are the rulingest chodgatherer of the wide world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I urge you take it to your local Dacia dealer and demand a full service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YugoLada Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 That's just amazing - pure Autoshite. Where did you find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycox Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Incredible! I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought these were extict. EXCELLENT WORK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 There's nothing left to say. Autoshite has been won. Forever. I've seen a Liberta in the flesh- used to live near me when I was a teenager in Greece. I think they only sold them in a small number of 'Western' countries for a very brief period of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skoda_fan Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Nice one, Sam. Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I urge you take it to your local Dacia dealer and demand a full service. ....aye, and ask in the Service Dept if you could have an 'upgrade' to the Sandero SatNav mod Them Renault techhies would have a $h1t! tooSavvy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holbeck Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Wow! Total respect for that one. It looks like a complete honey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Incredible. I also thought the UK market Denem was extinct, good to see it's not (quite!) Is pretty much everything a clone of the Renault 12, or are there some unique parts? Looks in pretty good condition and a nice project as well, well done. You just need a UK market RHD Lonsdale to complete the collection now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 My recent epic attic sortout uncovered a very acceptable Denem brochure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rml2345 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Epic tat finding skills! Those brochures are superb too...Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 There were a couple of old dears in East Preston in the 80s that had one of these. Its a fucking ace find. Sam, you are probably a good person to ask about finding a UK spec Malaga. If you become aware of one drop me a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko220 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 You legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500tops Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 We require background information! P'raps the best thing I've seen this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black_GT Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Amazing! I'm so happy there's actually one left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Ross Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I used to work at a Dacia dealrs in Wiltshire.... We had a Shifter as a runabout, and a Duster as a loan car. It was also a Yugo dealership...! My, we did have fun when they kept trying shortcuts through the Forest... all the top deck cars were damaged by low hanging trees..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 THAT is truly amazing, sir. You are a WINNAH. Forever. My uncle in Syria, then a manager at the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus used to have the Renault 12 version of these as his everyday car. I'm sure I've a photo somewhere...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinaTom Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Blimey - what a fatastic find! I love the fact that even a rear view mirror was considered an unnecessary luxury for the first owner. I'm pretty sure all Eastern Bloc cars from that era had that even on the most basic versions. Good luck with the Liberta search. Back in the late 90's you could find a few battered examples of these in the suburbs of Beijing. All long gone now - they didn't seem to be made to the same standard* as the Mosks and Ladas. I also remember a white one parked up abandoned in the yard of an engineering firm in Shenyang, and it was in good company with an Axel rotting away in the next bay. A few cars like these were imported at the same time as some of these firms were bringing in heavy duty presses and other machinery from Skoda - probably a "gift" / "backhander" type of thing. This thread has totally made my morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Shame it's not an automatic, it would be worth £40,000....................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I wonder if the people who had their modern cars on the same transporter are all now complaining that they and/or their cars have caught Bubonic Plague from the Dacia. I bet the transporter driver was entertained, albeit maybe a bit worried that his straps would cut through the chassis and the whole thing would fall off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSparrow Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Sweet mother of mercy! What a guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 These are the car of choice in Northern Cyprus - that and the Renault version. Theres loads of the buggers there, all in "how can that possibly still be in use" condition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 These things are so impossibly shit its extraordinary. What a find. I remember helping my mate repair the rotten floor of his one on an unsurfaced Bucharest side street. I made a reasonable stab of removing the entire floorpan using a hammer and chisel. Then I tried to weld it up using a stick welder but failed, so he was going to get his uncle on the case. I don’t know if they ever managed to stitch the big flat piece of rusty steel sheet actually into the car though, it certainly didn’t look hopeful to me but maybe they had Cuban-style pavement panel-bashing skills. The Liberta is thunderously crap, I will eat my hat if Dacia managed to get any of those onto the other side of the iron curtain. 5 speed box sounds good though - did Renault ever offer a 12 with a 5-speeder? My favourite Dacia is the mutant crew cab pick up that is an estate with a bulkhead behind the rear seat and a 2-ft long ‘pickup bed’ out back with a sawn-off estate tailgate. Only ever saw a couple of those and that was back in about 2005, they must be pretty much extinct now even in Romania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacquer Peel Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I didn't see any Dacias in Northern Cyprus, they were all Turkish R12s I think. Those crew cabs are hilarious. The later ones look slightly more competent, there was one on eBay UK recently with a Renault diesel engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Nice Dacia, Sam. WINNER! That fiable 1325 Liberta looks like Dacia's (misproportioned) answer to the Lada Samara. I believe Dacia eventaully came up with a more sensible hatchback design, based loosely on the Peugeot 309. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Partridge Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I’m so excited I’ve been jumping on the bed and I wet myself. That is pure sex on wheels. Want some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Does anybody remember the newspaper ads for dacia in the 80's? I seem to remember they would occupy a very small section of a page, usually near the back - if you were interested then you would have to send for details. Top buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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