General Lada Owners Club or Forum?

[Steven]

OK, I'm posting this in the Panda section as you are more broad minded than that lot on the rest of the forum.

Does anyone know of a Lada based forum or UK/Ireland owners club? I'm thinking specifically of the Lada Samara. Also, any idea on parts supply/availability for these?

 

[christopher watson]

I have been on www.lada.co.uk for a while, as i have had ladas in the past. You will like the lads on there, as they are nearly as insane as us FF'ers are

 

[Steven]

That's mostly Nivas and Rivas though. I found it already.

 

[Nuova500]

Only club I know of is the Unloved Soviet Socialist Register, they are a UK club that cater for all eastern bloc cars. Mad as hatters, they attend all the big classic car shows here. Once we at the Fiat Motor Club had a 125 on our stand at the NEC and they stuck a Lada badge on it, so we stuck a Fiat one on their Lada Riva! Samara though? Not sure about that!

 

[Steven]

I'll have a look for them, cheers Barry. What's wrong with Samaras? Much more sensible than a Riva.

 

[JimMagill]

OK, I'm posting this in the Panda section as you are more broad minded than that lot on the rest of the forum.

Does anyone know of a Lada based forum or UK/Ireland owners club? I'm thinking specifically of the Lada Samara. Also, any idea on parts supply/availability for these?

You really need help you know that???:shakehead

Jim

 

[Nuova500]

Its the weird styling. Older eastern bloc cars were cool, Rivas, Estelles, Dacias etc, but then it went all wrong in the late 80s with the Samara and Skodas Favorit, they just look so urgh! And that FSO Polonez thing, what was wrong with the 125p!!!

 

[Steven]

You really need help you know that???:shakehead

Jim

I mentioned this to you last weekend and you were all for it!

Barry, you can't compare the Samara to the VW Favorit!

 

[Steven]

Although look at the M reg Lada 1300 estate!

http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/WW...urce=0&photo=1&sort=3&ukcarsearch_full=SEARCH

 

[Pandarus]

Saw a T reg (fiatesque) Lada today. Not bad nick for it's age.

 

[Alan.D]

Steve if your going to get a Lada get the Niva Cossack best of the lot and is as Rugged & manly as you could find, it may change your image

 

[Tony M]

Steve if your going to get a Lada get the Niva Cossack best of the lot and is as Rugged & manly as you could find, it may change your image

I also think the cossack is their best oil burning petrol guzzling design... it's quite practical SWB good visiblilty... well it's a lot better than the others anyway.

I considered myself broad minded because at first glance i thought the title of this thread was "Lady Owners Club or Forum?", I have realised that it says LADA which i find horrifying really

 

[Stuartl]

WHY?

Does anyone know of a Lada based forum or UK/Ireland owners club? I'm thinking specifically of the Lada Samara. Also, any idea on parts supply/availability for these?

 

[posh pandas]

yer right Tony -so you call it being "broad minded" looking up lady's clubs! It's all very well but in that case where do i find the men's?

 

[Steven]

WHY?

Why not?

 

[AppleSei]

Why not?

Cos its a pile of russian/eastern european **** to sum up. No performace, even the 750 will feel luxurious compared to that.

Plus we get to pile you with lada jokes and turn you into a quivering wreck

 

[Nuova500]

your seicento is from Poland... so is that a pile of eastern european junk?
theres nowt wrong with eastern bloc cars, they do the job and have character too, more than can be said for the junk we produced in the 80s!

 

[chaos]

Only club I know of is the Unloved Soviet Socialist Register, they are a UK club that cater for all eastern bloc cars. Mad as hatters, they attend all the big classic car shows here. Once we at the Fiat Motor Club had a 125 on our stand at the NEC and they stuck a Lada badge on it, so we stuck a Fiat one on their Lada Riva! Samara though? Not sure about that!

Ah, I got an old Top Gear mag somewhere where the president of the Register had Top Gear test 5 or 6 Eastern Bloc cars he owned. They did the test in reverse, so the worst car won

 

[AIJ29]

WHY?

Because he`s jealous that youre doing more welding for Juppy than you did on splatter,so he`s trying to even the score
Cheers
Adrian

 

[JimMagill]

Because he`s jealous that youre doing more welding for Juppy than you did on splatter,so he`s trying to even the score
Cheers
Adrian

Enough monkeys and enough typewriters will produce the works of Shakespeare...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2085095381362301509&q=top+gear+lada

Jim