Left to Rust
When the car becomes out of use to its owner, or when it gets to tired and refuses to keep further service it’s a normal thing to leave it rusting under open skies in post Soviet countries.
Officials don’t fine people for that and don’t tow cars away, so many small streets or public yards have one or two of those that would not move by themselves away again.
Some of them even get painted by locals to a color of a curb or of a nearby wall.
Those ones stay on streets of Ukraine.
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I haven’t seen a Multicock Volco before.
I would love to bring some of those to the US to rebuild as driver quality cars. The unique style of some of them is really col. It’s not quite Western, and most people would never guess what it was.
Me and my friends once repaired one of those cars and were driving “pushing” it around the block
The Ukraine is a 3rd world country.
Could it really be,no more Miss India posts on englishrussia!!!!!!!!
I hope she is doing well,not that I miss her same repetitive posts!
I hope she’s stranded in Siberia
there used to be a lot of cars like that in Mexico also, but nowadays you can’t just leave anything on the street like that because someone will steal it and make some money out of it
Car like the other machine, not use will rust.
That looks way more well maintained than the ones in my country (Indonesia) Lol
Ha ha Have been there, have never seen so many scooters in my life. or crapped out old cars.
Are you sure You were in Ukraine? So many scooters: there are nearly no scooters in Ukraine! You girl has brain washed! Go back to your Italia
She meant Indonesia
Nice B1000 - and it’s still in use (snow under the car)
I didn’t know that Barkas’ and Zuks were exported to the USSR too…
The van on the first photo looks very similar to the infamous and much hated Škoda 1203/TAZ.
I guess Barkas and Zuk are post-1990 second-hand personal imports.
What is the car on the 2nd photo - possibly some Moskvich?
In first photo RAF. These minivans were made in Riga(Latvia). After an exit of Latvia from the USSR, factory have plundered and have destroyed.
I LOVE this article! So many good cars, which I would love to acquire and some day in the future when I learn enough of mechanics to fix something, and restore their former glory that was in the time of the Soviet Union. Cmon, wouldn’t it be great driving around in an old Soviet car around the village while playing some 60’s and 70’s music in the older Volga’s and Moskvitsh’s and some 80’s techno in a tricked out Lada. >:D
YES I FUCKING DISTRACTED FROM MY MAIN POINT WHICH IS I LIKE FOR YOU FOOLS WHO OFTEN TL;DR PEOPLE WITH REAL SUBJECTS TO LET EVERYONE KNOW OF.
tl;dr
well in Latvia you can be fined for this and the local authorities usually tows away cars like this. But mostly you can`t see cars abandoned on streets like in these pictures.
this is my car!
They can’t scrap them for money? Hell, people here would cut them up and scrap them to avoid the no-title issue if it was obviously abandoned.
some of them are in better condition than my car lol
I would love to have the step van to turn into a motorized vardo.
nice shots, I guess.
Nice Chevy Impala. Makes me want to go to Ukraine, buy it and master the moment. I’d doubt that there is anything seriously wrong with it. With a 350 v8 engine (standard)they were easy to work on, comfortable, good handling and powerful dependable cars. Not cheap to drive unfortunately
Here in Estonia (forer part of soviet union) we don’t have abandoned cars on the streets. Owner would be tracked down and he/she would be forced to pay or move the car. Anyway you could sell it to metal buyers.
But creat pics! Its hard to believe you can see something like that on the streets nowdays.
Estonia WAS a part of soviet union. Typo in my last post.
AHHH I WANT THE LIGHTS OFF THAT VOLVO. US got plastic ones that haze over and crack.