Loved the video! Your problem is that you are not using the Lada correctly. That back seat should be stuffed to the headliner with watermelons, or potatoes, or chickens, or a cow. Basically whatever needs to go to market. Also, the engine should be at redline, or maybe a little over whenever you are on the highway. If you need to pass a car, make sure you do it in the lane of the oncoming traffic (preferably in the presence of oncoming traffic). You should never put a Lada on a lift. Simply roll it onto one side, and prop it with a 2x4 to work on the underside of the car. At least, this is how I saw Ladas used when I lived in a former SSR.

From a Trabant to a Lada. You're going up in life

I knew a bus driver. He loved his Lada Riva. He said it was the closest a car came to the feeling of driving a bus. I'm still not quite sure what to make of that statement.

Good work, man. I had a Lada 2106 for a few years. Cost me a fortune to rebuild the suspension every few thousand kilometers, was gas thirsty as an airplane, but took me where I wanted to go. I, personally, noticed that every Lada had its own character - pedals, shifting, engine - never the same.

The happy Trabant was the start I didn't know I needed to my day. ☺️

I literally yelled "GOOD GOD" when you said the price. You deserve the 5 speed transmission.

We (family of four) moved from Hungary to Britain (and back, a couple of years later) in one of these :) It was an experience

I've always had love for these little types of cars. They get you from point A to B and are super easy to learn mechanic work on. They're the perfect highschooler's "first car" and I wish there were new ones you could buy here in America, present day. They'd be super cheap and could help out so many families that are struggling on a budget but need to get to work. Sure they're not fancy and even a little risky, but so was my ex wife- and she's got plenty of mileage on her.

I vote for a Wankel swap. Make use of all those digits on the tach.

You've socially arrived... you went from a lowly Trabant all the way up to a Lada. You've finally achieved rockstar status. Love your videos and your wonderful sense of humor.

When you drive a Lada, you drive it for the feeling! The smell of the enteriour of an old Lada is unique! And I tell you, as I experienced: the older Ladas, the round headlights versions were a little bit more fun to drive. They were a little more stabil on the road, the gear was better shifting one, and you could upgrade it with a fifth gear. The only thing that was dangerous or funny of this car, that the back of it was so light, that in wintertime you had to have two sacks of sand or cement in the luggage room to be able to start runnig with it on snow, and not to spin around all the time. We loved that car back in time here in Hungary!

I had a blue Lada, with a Weber carb conversion, and extractors. Also had a full dash, with tach, oil, volts, temp and gas gauges. It was a beast, and the worst thing was the manual timing chain adjustment. Not hard, just annoying. Wish I'd never sold it. Had a Fiat 125 twin-cam, and the Lada would leave it standing. They both sounded great!

The fact that both you and the seller didn't notice how many gears this car has is adorable.

Greetings from Yakutia! Somewhere in 1998, when I was 10 years old, my father bought a red Lada 2107. It seemed to me the perfect car. How I loved to sit in the front seat and listen to music. My father has been dead for almost a year now. I almost shed a tear when you showed the dashboard. Memories flooded back. Thank you.

My dad had a lada around 2005, I believe a 2105 in white color. He still says from time to time that he misses that car, that it was reliable and it was easy to service at home with he's tools (He had to fix easier parts of his trucks)

The automatic in Dennis might've been an importer option. The importer in Finland offered cool options as well, like sunroof for 210x or a turbo for Niva.

Greetings from Hungary! This 2107 with the big chrome grille was called “paraszt-merci” in Hungary which roughly translates to “peasant-Benz”. Btw, unlike any other communist countries (edit: as it turns out from my fellow former eastern block viewer’s comments, not unlike, but: like other commie countries), you could have a western car in Hungary if you had the money to buy and to pay the taxes - only problem was Hungarian currency was not (officially, easily) convertible to western currencies, so most people with western cars actually earned the money in the west (export company employees, sportsmen, entrepreneurs, truck drivers) bought the car and moved back to Hungary, or bought those cars second-hand from the previous ones. Mercedes W115 was popular, as well as Fiats, VW Beetle, some French cars. Like 90% of the cars were commie cars tho. And… you should definitely get a rear-engine communist era Skoda once. Better than Trabant, worse than Lada… and a very interesting one. Very popular in the countryside. Aluminum OHV four-cyl four stroke with only three crankshaft bearing, a legendary (and pretty crappy) engine which was in production from 1933 to 2003, unique layout, unique sound, unique problems, terrifying handling, but very much fun. You’d enjoy. And we’d enjoy the videos about it :P

Greetings from Finland. In the 80's Lada was the most sold car here for many years. I had 2 of this model. 1,3 and 1,6. Cheap, reliable, easy to service, very warm in winter.

My dad had a Dennis before I was born. It had big decals saying "MAY THE FUNK BE WITH YOU". It's one of those stories we hear every Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I'm a Canadian, Calgarian to be exact and I remember seeing the rivas everywhere in my childhood but never any of the lada cars. I nearly pee'd myself the other day those when one our cities garbage trucks was stopped at a red light as I crossed the road it had "DENNIS" in big shinny silver lettering across the front. ...Dennis

These(2106, 2107) are really often used as a fun winter-drift cars here in Russia. I am regularly seeing them wrapped around a pole or in a ditch, what a view to witness😊

The 5 speed swap would be so cool to see but you do what you wanna! Always a blast to watch your projects and thanks for bringing us along!

I remember seeing a 1975 Lada Niva in my small italian town. It went everywhere at any time, any condition of the road. It was like the Panda 4x4:rugged, simple, not too big, cheap and agile. A mountain goat

Bought a 2105 in 1990 drove it for 2 years, parked in a shed then left until a few months ago, got it running, was still looking good, young people just love it, they have no idea what it was, so retro is what I hear, unbelievable! Its a lada!

The Econ gauge is likely just a vacuum gauge. It goes from yellow to green to red because your engine is most efficient at whatever the “green” zone is. You might have a vacuum leak at that gauge that is causing the engine to run weird at times. That’s worth investigating.

Amazing video! I am from Russia myself, and my dad used to own this one (in white though). It was a while ago, and it surely wasn't "the nicest car" one could get in the 90's, but it was extremely common. It is cheap, easy to maintain, especially if you know at least something about cars. But even if you don't, the prices for fixing this kind of car if something breaks is not a big deal. It works fine when the temperature is -30 C or lower. And it can definitely do what a car has to do at first place - bring you places. Yes, that sums it all, but nobody expects more really. It's a cheap basic car. No comfort, no fancy interior, no nothing. Sometimes I see people trying to make these look fancy, spend a lot of money on sound system/nice seats etc, but I never really understood that. Nothing can make this car fancy enough for the money you would have to put into it. But a lot of teenagers buy these as their first car and some are having lots of fun, drifting too X_X Funny thing, in some places it is very useful even nowadays. I know a couple of people who get this sort of car (or something like Niva) in addition to the other cars their families own, so that they would have a car that can be used for nasty things. Like carrying heavy/dirty shit around, using it in places like villages where there are no normal roads and you would need nothing more but "something that can carry you and your stuff around". Not everyone can buy something expensive and shiny for this sort of thing. Plus, since it is cheap, Lada can be the only option for those who cannot afford more. After watching this video I kinda want to have a ride in one of these. Just for the sake of good memories. Not about the car, but about the time spent in it with nice people.

I bought a two year old Lada Riva for the wife in 1993 for £1,000. Was a spacious, reliable car. Got rid of it in 1994 to a guy who was re-exporting the cars back to Russia (where UK spec cars were much sought after) for £500.

As a previous Lada owner for more than a decade I agree with what you have said , everything except the tank part , I have been in a few medium speed accidents , and I can say that it's a tough car , 30-50 km/h crashes barely bent the doors or the bumpers.

About that engine... maybe part of the problem is that someone really cleaned it up. Stationed in Europe in the 80s, my father was involved with multi-national diplomatic communities and became good friends with his Russian counterpart. He had a Lada, bought second-hand, that was pretty much what you said: It was a car. One day, said friend decided that the total lack of maintenance performed by the car's original owner was part of the problem, so he had a mechanic give the engine a good going-over: valves, rings, lots & lots of gaskets, etc. The result was lower performance, oil leaks, smoky exhaust, and a real case of regret. What happened? Well, it seems that the original owner's semi-benign neglect let all the old oil work its way into all the irregularities, gaps, loose gaskets, etc. that were pretty much everywhere in the engine and fill them in with semisolid gunk that blocked oil leaks, kept the pressure up, and in some cases literally glued the engine parts together.

There is one idiom about Lada - it is never 100% fixed, but it is never 100% broken either. Even if something breaks on the go, you can screw it on here, turn it there on the same go, and drive to your destination. That is why Lada was loved and loved to this day. In addition, for many folks, this is the first car, as it is cheap, usually around $ 300 and it is cheap to maintain and service. Your Lada is in very good condition by the way. Its Awesome

Lada is love. Lada is life🤗

I'm so glad I'm stumbled onto this channel ! love it.

Hey, I live in Hungary and still drive a Lada 2105 daily. I drive nearly 20000 kilometers every year and mostly repair it myself. It was my childhood dream, I bought it in 2018. If you need any parts I can help with the shipping, let me know. Edit: Yes, indeed automatic transmission was an option, but only in western countries. As far as I know it had some sort of a ZF transmission, which was similar used in VW's at the time.

Ladas were pretty popular here in Finland. They were robust, reliable, easy to service and cheap. Also, they worked well under cold winter conditions. They obviously did not have any decadent western comfort features like electric seat heaters et cetera.

My dad had Lada Ziguli - 2101. Lasted 23 years. We had a lot of fun and it was easy to fix them!

Greetings from a fellow Oklahoman. I live in N.E. Oklahoma near Claremore. I stumbled onto your video because I have been studying and learning the Russian language for over a year. Don't know why 😂 but I have fallen in love with the Russian people and their culture. Your videos are fun to watch. Don't lose the humor.

Definitely go for a 5 speed swap, it will be good to see just how simple this thing is mechanically. We had a Fiat 124 when I was a kid, and I remember Dad complaining about the brakes - it also overheated and was a real pain to start in damp weather. A GS or CX would be much, much, more interesting - both mechanically and to drive 🙂

YES, do the 5 speed conversion! Please. I will watch and even "like" it.

I had one of these in red, but the wagon version. It was called the Lada Signet here. You used to see them on Quebec roads. The Samara hatchback and the 4 door sedan version weren't uncommon either. Also had lots of Nivas. I think mine was 1991.

Hey, a friendly adviser for the breaks:try to gently pump the break pedal before stopping after a high speed drive, the oil in the system doesn’t get enough pressure. I have learned how to drive on a Lada 1200s, so the break system should be the same. Also, if this car has a manual choker - pull it before attacking a hill. The 1200s used to run like hell on premium fuel. Cool car, I wish it had AC on it.

I can't put into words how much that conversation with the Trabant cheered me up. Never a dull moment on this channel!

It was fairly typical on older European cars for the center dash vents to only blow fresh air, not heated air. The two W123 Mercedes-Benzes I owned (an '81 240D and an '85 300D) were both that way. If you don't want outside air blowing though them, you get a slider control to shut them off (which I assume that's what the blue slider on the Lada does).

Loving the dialog with Trabby, his happy behavior is wonderful :D

Those ladas are great for drifting in the winter. A very enjoyable car

Lada is the brand name they used for export. In the Soviet Union this whole line of Fiat 124 derivatives was known as Zhiguli (Жигули). It's the car that made ordinary Soviet citizens mobile and many still have fond memories of it. Not necessarily because they were great cars but because they were super practical, and they got you around. (In)famously people had to wait for years to get one because production capacity was always limited. At the same time it was also a moderate export success because it was cheap and "good enough" for many even in the West. Professional people in the SU (officials, engineers, doctors etc.) who had to actually drive longer distances for work were often assigned Volga (Волга) cars. They were a step up from the Zhigulis. Larger, more comfortable, more powerful, etc. If possible, you should try to get one of those, like a GAZ-24, and tell us what you think about it.

"Would you like to see me 5-speed this Lada?" Do you even have to ask?

As a british person, let me explain our currency. One pound refers to a pack of beer and one pence refers to one beer. Hope that cleared it up (most british people totally use this system)

I’m really excited for the one year update on this thing

My dad had a white Lada. We went on holiday in Austria and Italy not long after the Iron Curtain fell. So this was around 1992-1994. I remember several times when we parked a small crowd gathered and I remember some people taking pictures. For them a Lada was as exotic as it gets

Econ guage is vacuum most likely, and it's probably the source of a vacuum leak. It may be your air/fuel issue as well.

haha, at 18 i got my drivers license in one of these. drove it for some years afterwards and gained quite some arm muscles doing it. Actually a good exercise since in my army draft '88 I became a truck driver for a 6T Polcarb with ........ no power steering

I grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada in the 1980s and 1990s. My parents owned two of these. One was poop brown, one was a pee yellow. The yellow one, our dealer actually sold a dealer installed option automatic transmission by buying Chevette 3-speed automatics from the Chevrolet Oldsmobile Cadillac dealer across the street. My mom couldn't drive a stick, so that's what my father bought her. My father was so cheap he figured why buy a new car when he could get two for the price of one. The rustproofing was horrendous. After a few years I can remember looking down at the carpet and seeing the road flash before me. At least they came standard with a tool kit in the trunk. I will say these were popular in Eastern and Atlantic Canada because they had decent ground clearance in the snow and handled potholed roads well. Rustproofing aside, these powertrains were tough as hell. They were cheap, and they sold very well, along with the Hyundai Pony. But, when Hyundai joined the Canadian market with the Pony and Stellar, it I think was the death knell for Lada in Canada. They stopped selling new cars in Canada in 1997.

Garage 54 has done just about everything you can think of to these. They do run surprisingly well. That's about all they got going for them.

1:54, the greatest moment of cinematography.

I had one in the UK. LHD. The water that ran off the bonnet was directed onto the top of the steering box. In time the box filled with water. When temperatures dropped below zero the water in the box froze and the steering no longer worked until the engine warmed up the steering box. Another consequence of LHD was changing the exhaust manifold, or steering box, required releasing one engine mount and jacking the engine up.

I really like how small and boxy the lada is. Very cozy and retro.

12:15 you are correct. The heater has to be absolutely 100% scorching hot. I used to own a stack of early 90s car magazines, and the powerful heater was one of the positive things they have to say about the Lada. The engine apparently has a special system that makes it get to operating temperature extra quick, and in a test versus western cars it was the fastest to heat up.

You need to change the channel name to ageing wheel bearings

4 speed transmission version was sold in USSR, 5 speed was made ony for export. My neighbors use to have this car.. Use to be nice for those days. My dad use to ride Lada 21011

My dad had a Lada. I think he had it from before the 89 revolution when it was a real status symbol to have one since everyone else either had Dacias or Trabants (talking about Romania here) and he'd kept it around for a while when I was still a young lad. Don't remember much about it as he sold it for some reason, don't even know the model, it was just known as the Lada, but I know he was real proud of it. Years later he'd still talk fondly of the thing. I think he and my godfather worked to fix it up. I can only imagine how much it cost him to even get it in the first place.

So many childhood jokes about the Lada, "What do you call a Lada with a tennisball on the hitch...'the sports model'" "How many settings does the LAda heater have? 2, Cold, or extremely Hot", "Why does the Lada have heated rear windows? So you can have warm hands when pushing it". Iconic no matter what :)

Ah yes our family car. Dad bought it in mid 1980's and we had it until 2015. Red color, had headlight wipers, you had to be pretty strong to steer the wheel and took like 6 full rotations of the steering wheel to move the wheels fully, it had back wheel power so dad had to put some 80kg of weight in the trunk when the roads were slippery in the winter to get some traction. After 30 years the transmission box was still in pristine condition. We loved that car, when we sold it there was a period of mourning ... we lost a member of our family that day

I ride around in a 4wd Niva all the time. Its very popular here to take a rusty old Lada, slam it, & then stealth sup it up, even replacing most of the drivetrain. Very steampunk.

2:58 very true, these cars are everywhere here in Egypt, infact my aunt had an identical Lada to yours in red as well!

Hi. Maybe this could be some helpful information: 5-speed and 4-speed gearboxes have different mounting brackets and rubber mounts. There is 3 different specs of speedometer cable drives, which is located on the gearbox. They vary depending of what gear ratio does the rear end has. In your car probably you have 4.1 (41/10) rear end - they were common for boxy ladas with 4 speed transmission. 5-speed cars have 3.9 (43/11) rear end. Also there were 4.44 on lada 2102 and 4.3 on lada 2101.

0:35 If the Trabant is a rockin' don't come a knockin'.

LOVE your narration. it is so funny . It is also great to finally see an American who is self confident enough to also make fun of himself. That is as hard to find as a Lada in America :)

A family member has one in Armenia. Their home is up on a hill in the country side. Pretty steep hill with large holes and rocks. He packs the car with 5 family member and flys it up and down that hill several times a day. His LADA looked stock!

Here in Chile Ladas were quite popular on the mid 80s and early 90s. 2104 and superiors were used as a taxi in almost every city. The Riva (Niva) is among the top 4x4 you could have back then.

I honestly like the way it looks. Then again, that's probably because of my love of old squarebody pickups.

when I was a kid In Jamaica these were very popular. People especially loved the headlights which were like search lights and very needed on twisty bumpy unpaved country roads. The mechanics would adjust those brakes to make them sharp but one thing he didn't mention is that its ONE system so when you brake you got brakes on all four DRUM brakes t the same force so making them sharp would literally throw everyone out of their sets every time and when you lost brakes you LOST ALL brakes. Even now in a parish called St Thomas they are still popular as route taxis because they are unkillable.

Nice video, man I used to have a 2107 1.6 carb from 2006 and 2101 1.2 from 1973, and it’s a common opinion in 🇷🇺, that the best ladas are the ones made before 1980. My 2101 was a lot more more pleasure to drive (the smell in the car, the quality of the materials etc) although it had less power, no vacuum brakes and many other useful options😅 a friend of mine, whom I bought it from travelled from St Petersburg to Austria to the alps with his mates on it, and some elderly europeans were quite amused to see such a car from their youth I agree with almost everything, you’ve said and it was new to me, that they were sold in Canada with an auto gearbox 😮😂

Very cool Robert! When I visited western Africa (Ivory Coast) with my parents when I was 14 (43 years ago now), my uncle who was working there at the time picked us up from the airport in a Lada 1200 stationwagon to drive us to his home, roughly 500 km on abysmal roads... There was a sticker on the windscreen that said in French: 'Lada, les dures' or 'Lada, the tough ones'. During the 8h journey through the rainforest that 14 year old did pray all the way that the slogan would be true. And fortunately it was. We arrived without any issues. From that moment on I cherish a profound sympathy for this car and its derivates. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to your many road trips in this Russian relic.

You should definitely put in the 5 speed, I think it would do a Lata good for the car.

We had 2 of these 2105s at our workplace in NZ - our mechanic replaced the original carburetor with a 2 barrel (twin choke) Weber off a UK designed 2L Ford Cortina - it ended up with more power than the other Lada and used less fuel!

Pretty accurate description of a Lada. I owned five over the years, and paid a few hundred GB pounds for them. If running rich, the carb float height needs adjusting, very easy but can ruin a good engine if not done (bore washing.) Tappets are also often neglected on Ladas.

I was wondering how long it would take for the Trabant to go full Herbie. It's EXACTLY as adorable as I expected!

As a proud Canadian Lada owner since 1987 I can confirm Ladas were never called Dennis… but they were imported by the Dennis Corporation. The cars were called Lada Signet or Lada Signet wagon. I currently own a 1991 Lada Signet wagon with the 1.5L engine and 5 spd manual. They were also available with a GM automatic transmission fitted once they arrived in Canada. I look forward to see what you are going to do with your Lada !! :)

I had a Lada, loved it, always started great around town, also had a Skoda Estelle, rear engined rear wheel drive, that was great in the snow. I think you should 5 speed it, do the welding and it will be a great winter car, if you can get the heater working!

I drove one of these things from the UK to Czechoslovakia and left it there. It had no synchro between 1st and 2nd so I had to learn how to double de-clutch which was kinda fun. But it made it.

I hope you keep your Lada for a while, it’s a great car. Do the gearbox swap if it makes you happy. It looks like your car has room for improvement. I have a 2103 from 1975 with the same engine and mine has great breaks and excelent heating. Look forward to more Lada videos 👍 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

Congratulations on the car, fellow Lada owner ;) One thing definetaly worths mentioning if you want to keep it (or any other Ladas): you have to keep an eye on the front ball joints in the fishbones. If the lower ones wear off enough, your wheels will turn out completely. Very hard (I mean harder than normal) steering is one warning, the other one is the knocking (though that only happens at the very last minute). You can change them easily though, if you have the proper ball joint puller (many types don't fit in there). Also there's no complex electronics in it, the parking brake warning is switched on by a relay, which is placed in the relay box in the engine bay. Actually it's the same light that stays on, if your brake fluid level is too low. BTW in an old Lada there's about a full of 7 pieces of semiconductors in the whole car: 2x3 in the generator and one puny diode in the dashboard. I think that's about the same in the 2107 as well. Oh, and the engine should be 55kW (74HP) in DIN standards, according to the VAZ books.

Actually ladas have been getting their second life for the last years, because of winter drift(especially Krasnoyarsk winter drift battle where such pilots as Kawabata take part) becoming more popular, and it’s an achievable way to make your first steps in motorsport (with some essential mods for sure😊) Ladas also used to take part in rally sport years ago, but with much more significant mods A stock one has nothing to do with motorsport at all for sure😅 There’s actually a lot of content about ladas in motorsport on UKposts, zaRRubin, Nikita Shikov channel eg

At least you had a gas gauge, my 55 VW bug didn't have one and it only had 36 HP, and low gear was not synchromesh. I loved that car! You didn't tell it what to do it told you what you could do! I lived in it for 5 weeks while going cross country it. I think I would enjoy driving you Lada. Thanks for taking us along.

One of the best, basic 4x4 is the Lada Nivia. Absolutely amazing off road and so basic, there's just nothing to go wrong with it. So you need one of these :)

Lada was _very_ popular in Finland during the 70's and 80's due to our close relations to Soviet Union. My parents had two of them, first one was (if I remember correctly) a 1980 1200L, which means it looked like the original Fiat and had a 60hp 1200cc engine. It was mustard yellow. Then a couple of years (and a Skoda 120L) later, they got a 1987 1200S. It looked like the other red Lada in this video, but was beige and mechanically identical to the old one. Afterwards they moved on to a Saab 99, Citroën Xantia, Volkswagen Passat and a Saab 9-3, which they still have.

I bought an old Lada for a cheap get to work car in the 90s.... it was a car, it got me to work every day and it was cheap £70 What I can tell you is... it had the best heater of any car I ever drove... took 30sec to start pumping out heat on the coldest of mornings But it handled like a ton of turd jelly on a skateboard, I lent it to a "friend" and it ended up stuck in a tree halfway down a cliff (he survived)

i learned driving in driving school on one of these (along with VW Golf and Ford Sierra), it was converted to compressed natural gas (CNG) and it had gear shift stick to the left of the steering wheel by the left door not in the middle of the car

My parents bought cheap cars back in the 80s having owned both a Yugo 45 and a Lada Riva very similar to this one. The Lada Riva was a 1600ES, a special edition created by the dealership to celebrate their ten year anniversary of importing Ladas. It had a couple of extras like headlamp wipers, a pretty decent upgraded stereo system, a five speed gearbox, colour coded bumpers and metallic paint. It did everything we needed it to, was actually very reliable and was even the only car in the street to start easily during a harsh winter we had back in the 80s.

The intro was brilliant.

I recall seeing a brand new Lada Niva in a showroom in Ottawa's Little Italy in the late 80s and the painted underside was completely flash rusted and the valvetrain sounded like a coffee can full of gravel in a paint shaker.

Here in Canada there was "Secure-a-car", who similarly set up on-the-spot VIN etching on windowglass to prevent theft. A quick set of alphanumeric masks were arranged with the VIN, popped against the side of the window, and gently sandblasted into the glass. It wouldn't surprise me if this LADA pulled into one of these "parking lot stalls" to have it done real quick and nobody noticed the window was down until it was too late!

Somewhere, your old Yugo is shedding a tear. Imagine it, the Trabant, and the Lada, all in a row!

Your Lada seems to be most appreciated car in value from new to now since the beginning of time.

Wow...I owned a brand new 1970 Fiat 124 sedan back in the day and it was a good little machine , however the southern Ontario road salt affected it badly in a few years. Four wheel disc brakes & Pirelli radials were a bonus. Thanks for the video 😊. ps the Fiat sedan was the platform for the Lada when the tooling was moved to Russia.

Greetings from Hungary! I want to share my experiences about Lada 2107 My grandpa got one in 1987 when it was brand new. We still have that car, and i can tell, it's better as you see. Maybe i have some pink fog, because i grew up in that car, but it drives nicely. A couple of tips from me: - the choke indicator isn't factroy built (my grandpa also built in one, but originally there was an voltage light, or something idk) - the engine runs in your one a bit rough, one carb cleaning would be nice - the middle air wents working fine, they can blow only cold air in (if you take a look under the hood, you will see the air intake) - if you want to install headlight wipers, it will be hard, here in Hungary the wiper motors are also rare, in USA i can't imagine, how much they can cost - the clutch, brake, and transmission must to have problems in your car, one good Lada transmission works really nice, the way on you move the stick must be short, and its quiet (kinda) - the little ECON instrument is a bad thing, they had this thing after 1990, before 1990 there was mounted an oil pressure instrument, so that will be bad - the little icon on the window is a hungarian licence plate, so probably this car was also hungarian - i rather not to buy a Polski, lot of people saying that Polski is better, but not allways. They had 4 disc brakes, witch is nice, but the weren't so good at driving. And the first ones were really good. De newer ones with plastic grill, and other stuff, they were not so good. - if you will have once a chance, try one Lada from before 1990. The real Soviet ones were better quality I hope my things can help. Drive this Lada more and more, and you will love it. It's a good car, you just need, to understand it. And remember: this is a real machine; you dont drive it, you operate it! Have a nice day, and sorry if i write something wrong, i dont really speak english..

$9500 for a 2107 is hilarious. I've seen these things go from $700 to $4000 depending on the body and engine condition(running ones). Also seen these running around with more weld than original body kit

a few years back i drove a lada 2015 4 speed for a whole summer. yeah it screamed on the highway and had low power but... it was in such a good condition it was as comfy and smooth af like driving a mercedes s class :D

the best thing in the lada is its very customuzable, my friend has a lada, he changed the 4 speed grearbox to a 5 speed one at home, he installed central locks, 4 Videoton car speekers in the back and doorlights downward (like in some audi) also lada is extreamly compatable with various engines, there are this very popular thing called lada racing

When growing (in the Netherlands) up we had several Lada's, I believe the 2101. It had the reputation of being a poor man's car, but actually it wasn't a bad car. Because the simple technology, it was pretty reliable. It always started (especially in the winter when the modern "better" cars didn't start) and the maintenance was easy