Driving in Ukraine,,, With a Lada,,, super cool!

[Darth_Budda]

So I bought a Lada... Very fun car or I like to think of it as a 50 "miniature pony" power Russian-Ukrainian go cart... So much fun to drive....

[Maxx2]

Stick shift?

[msmob]

Stick shift?

Did they ever make automatic gearbox Ladas ? !

So I bought a Lada... Very fun car or I like to think of it as a 50 "miniature pony" power Russian-Ukrainian go cart... So much fun to drive....

You need your bumps felt - as you will feel every bump )))  You both seem happy

[Maxx2]

Here in the Republic of Georgia you see them in three ways. 1) struggling to get up a mountain at 20 KPH and a lot of blue smoke behind them. 2) with a roof rack piled high with assortment of things. Watermelons come to mind. 3) Piled high and struggling to get to get up the mountain road at 10 KPH.

[BillyB]

Stick shift?

Look at where Darth Budda's right arm is at. I can imagine he has his hand on something.

[Darth_Budda]

Actually,, the 3rd day of driving, I broke the shifter off..        I  not the first time.. You could tell it had been welded once before.. So I had to have it welded on again..  it broke in the middle of the city... It was like,,   blat-suka,  I got some pictures.. No one died.. Thank my lucky stars... I had to drive the car out to my wife's village where my friend fixed it..  my friends "not in picture" actually just took the hat from the restaurant we were just in... It was funny as shit.... Luckily as local gangsters they know all the police.. So I am not too worried...

[Maxx2]

Actually,, the 3rd day of driving, I broke the shifter off..        I  not the first time.. You could tell it had been welded once before.. So I had to have it welded on again..  it broke in the middle of the city... It was like,,   blat-suka,  I got some pictures.. No one died.. Thank my lucky stars... I had to drive the car out to my wife's village where my friend fixed it..  my friends "not in picture" actually just took the hat from the restaurant we were just in... It was funny as shit.... Luckily as local gangsters they know all the police.. So I am not too worried...

That is the fun thing about owning older cars. I had an old early 60's Buick (or Olds) with a factory aluminum 225 cubic inch V-8 with a "four on the floor." I bought it in 1972 for fifty bucks ($50!). The shifter would often break even with a class 8 hardened bolt and nut put into it. I had to keep spare bolts and nuts in the glove box.   

[Darth_Budda]

Pictures of the joy of driving a Lada...  I know the car looks like it is from the 1980's but it is a 2007...

[ML]

Look at where Darth Budda's right arm is at. I can imagine he has his hand on something.

Look at the smile on his Gal's face.