10k: Whole Lada Shaking Going On: 1975 Lada 1500 VAZ 2103
Forget everything you know about cool hipster mobiles – this feature is going to change everything. Take the cool of driving an Alfa Romeo Berlina Sedan, the “I don’t need to ride up hills” practicality of a vintage steel framed fixie bike and add the “I was wearing this before it was used on that USA Network show” linen Fedora…you still won’t be as cool as this car. Find this 1975 Lada 1500/VAZ 2103 for sale in the SF Bay Area, CA for $11,500. Another brown trout from Kaibeezy.
You think your Henry Kissinger glasses are cool? Forget it, this Lada makes oil stains that are cooler than your entire goodwill vintage wardrobe. It just screams “take me home you hipster douche!” Ditch the poetry recital and find yourself a good Russian mechanic because you don’t want this car to be Stalin when you drive it home.
We aren’t going to bore you with details about its Soviet built 1.5 liter inline 4 or the fact that it was a Leninized version of the Fiat 124 sedan and built by a company called AvtoVAZ. No, we are simply going to let you soak in the cool that is this chocolate mint brown brown beauty.
We recommend the new owner removes the offensive yellow chicken/pig looking rear view ornament and replace it with a proper emblem of the people…a solid 24 carat gold hammer and sickle.
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| Best excuse for parking ticket: “Of course I parked in the red zone…it IS a Lada…” |
This clearly isn’t a time to sit around drinking cappuccino in front of the computer, it is time to sell your collection of felt fedoras and pickup an ushanka…along with the coolest car parked in a red zone this side of the Berlin wall.
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Don't like the car, but love the write-up.
Rag on it all you want, DT. I think it's cool as hell. Except the offensive yellow chicken/pig looking rear view ornament thingy, of course. The current owner can keep that.
At $11,500, it's a good thing the owner "isn't in a hurry to sell." Priced at some multiple of the original MSRP, who exactly is the target buyer the seller is fishing for here? The collector who already has everything else? The nostalgic immigrant who couldn't get one when they lived in Russia? I don't get it.
Lada money to be asking. Grandpa must've stood on the backs of a Lada proles to afford such a pristine automobile.
Be prepared to spend a Lada time under the hood. Though simple, I can't imagine there are a Lada spares available here.
Someone obviously had a Lada love for this car to keep it in this kind of shape. Seems like a Lada bull about an oily rag chipping the paint.
DT's writer obviously has a Lada latent hatred for hipsters.
I made quite a few Lada jokes there.
$11,500, would be the whole….enchiLADA. Wonder if they'd be willing to take a slightly higher mileage Trabant in trade?
Many still used as taxi cabs in the third world. Rode in one in Jamaica back in the day. Still have back pains from it.
For $11,500 you might get someone in Canada to take it, then again they might demand $12,000 from you ! 🙂
cheers….Jeff