A few years after Malcolm Bricklin made a decent amount of money importing small Subaru cars in the USA, he launched his own auto company, which made the DeLoreanesque SV-1. The SV-1 was a cool car, but was arguably a financial failure, so Mr Bricklin went back to doing what he did best: importing cheap […]
The Tatra 805 is an oddball Soviet Bloc off-road military hauler built from 1952 through 1962 somewhere behind the iron curtain. According to various online sources, the 805 was called “crybaby” because of the peculiar engine note from the aircooled V8. Find this 1955 Tatra 805 offered for $16,000 CAD ($12,115 USD at time of printing) […]
What happens when you take the design of the pre-war German built Opel Kadett and combine it with the capabilities of the Moscovskiy Zavod Malolitrazhnyh Avtomobiley (Moscow Factory for Making Small Cars) and the direction from Joseph Stalin himself…? It isn’t entirely clear to me, but I’m sure it involved many knocks on doors in […]
The Lada/VAZ 2101 was compact sedan built by AvtoVAZ starting in 1970 for Eastern Bloc needs. It doesn’t have the reliability of a classic German car, the handling of a British classic, or the speed of something domestic, but it has the undeniable cool factor of a Soviet sedan. Find this 1979 Lada 2101 Zhiguli offered […]
Back in 1980 if you were a new hire at the CIA, you had numerous choices for your First Real Car. However, if you were a young KGB Officer, your choices consisted of some warmed over Fiats and strange indigenous People’s Cars. Find this 1980 ZAZ-968A for sale in Issaquah, WA for $9,750 via craigslist. […]