It's not all potatoes & vodka.......

[Guest]

http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=1496Some utter cack, some quite well done, some probably inspired by Vodka!

[bones96]

looks like they got some inspiration of barryboys lol

[pompei]

I was disappointed that it wasn't a Russian wives dating site 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

[binhoker668]

Got to be the most repugnant piece of deformed metal that I have seen in a long time.

Skoda based yah?

Skoda front lights anyway....

Bleeeaarrrgghhh.....

[bigstraight6]

Oh my Lords! there's some fantastic stuff on that site, its now in my 'Favourites'

[Adrian_pt]

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...

[Volksy]

Awesome tat-site find..

 

This is my fave...

 

Samara faux-Landulet le-sabre thing!

 

[Milford Cubicle]

Those LuAZs are wonderful, thanks for alerting us to them Adrian.

 

 

Like a Soviet Steyr-Puch Haflinger.

[Sid]

That Samara thing almost works, with a bash from the design stick it'd probably have sold well!

[55bloke]

It's a vastly over-used word, but that really is, amazing!!

[bigstraight6]

What's this?

This has to be the inspiration!

[stoterstangen90]

 

The russian equevalent of the 600 multipla

[Richard]

This is my favourite. Is that the back end of a Mk3 Escort van? Is it a no wheel drive?

 

[Adrian_pt]

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?!

[bigstraight6]

  Adrian_pt said:

How many points do I get?!

Jeez, several thousand points out of 10 for you're superior Iron Bloc tat knowledge

[pogweasel]

None, because it clearly IS the arse end of an escort van. Casting doubt upon it strips all previous points.

[outlaw118]

Whatever it is, it's the epitome of SHIIIIIIITE (to be sneered in a Liam Gallagher type of way)....

[Adrian_pt]

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

[pompei]

Tatras 87 and 97 for me please - look like something out of Dan Dare. I'd seriously prostitute myself for either

[blimp]

T'other day I stumbled upon these lovely russian monsters which I thought I would share with the group:

 

 

 

The rest can be found here

[mk2_craig]

 

 

Surely not

[andrewp]

Lada definitely missed a trick here, how much more practical would this be for dropping Tarquin and Tara off at school as opposed to struggling out the back of the A4 Cabrio.

 

[MrRegieRitmo]

  mk2_craig said:

 

 

Surely not

I was thinking more Ital

[MrRegieRitmo]

I love this because it has a hint of Simca 1100 VF2 about it.....wish I could see the rear angle!

 

 

 

This also appeals for sheer tastefulness!

 

 

 

But the hands down winner has to be the Lada M-Sport!