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.
Weird Russian Tuning and Car Modifications
You can meet these strange cars in the streets of Russia and the former Soviet republics. Most of them were produced in the USSR, and most likely, Soviet engineers could not even think about such fate of these vehicles. But some of them are tuned very nicely.
Lada Racer. A Self-Made Sportster
The designer of this unique vehicle, called “Lada RACER”, says that its creation was based only on the details of VAZ-2106 and VAZ-21081. But, as you can see, it looks very different and according its creator it can drive really fast even with the original engine.
And the most interesting thing is that you can simply buy it for about $26 000.
See also:
Lada Diablo
Ghost Rider Lada Tuning
Some Russian tuning. ZAZ
Invalidka SZD. Some history and tuning.
Snow Tuning
Pedal Automobiles. The Dream of Every Soviet Child
In Soviet Era there were automobiles for each class of people. We already told about Zaporozhets (for the middle class), Volga (for the upper class) and even Invalidka for disabled people, who were not able to drive ordinary cars.
The point is that the Soviet children also had their own pedal vehicles for kids, mostly produced at the real car factories. For example, AZLK factory, which produced Moskvich, had it’s own section of pedal Mosckvich models.
See the photos below.
Invalidka SZD. Some history and tunning
It is true to say that invalids in Soviet Union were a kind of defective people in many respects. For example, they were not able to drive ordinary cars, and had to use special vehicles for invalids, called in public “Invalidka”.
The cycle-car SZD (Invalidka) with the IJ motorbike engine was the development of Serpukhovksy car factory. It was given to invalids by local authorities for a fixed period of time during 70-s and 80-s, though it’s production stopped only in the late 90-s. Probably the idea of free cars for invalids was not so bad, but the design and characteristics of SZD left much to be desired.
After the jump one will find some historical photos of SZD and the video, where some street racers converted Invalidka into something that looks too fast and too furious.
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