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Oh sweet! Yeah absolutely kicking myself at the moment as that super rusty white one I wrecked out a couple months back had an lsd and I thought they came standard on em so just chucked it but jacked this one up today and it's open ass end boooooo.

Pumped up the 32s today and they hold air which will be sweet to keep it rolling, they're bald though so I've got a set of 31s to go on. Looking pretty boss though!

Build thread hurrrr

Then within an hour off having it off the trailer I had the front torsions wound up and test fitted one of the wheeeeeels The grub approves too.

So umm, yeah, this is now mine. Discuss here Partners grandparents have had it the last 20 odd years and it failed it's last wof on a bit of rust in the tailgate area so asked if I wanted it, being that these are fucking rad I obviously said yes! Went down to oamaru and picked it up this weekend, actually runs pretty good too, bit spluttery on startup but once it's going she's good, is a 1.8 g62b so it's pretty gutless. Has rust especially around tailgate hinge area but I grabbed a mint tailgate a few months back so that's half the work done. The old fella has barryfied it nicely, has a big fuck off vacuum gauge on the dash and a oil pressure gauge sticking out of a hole in the dash. Has been painted a beautiful shade of "fence paint green". Plans are to fix rust and get it a wof, lift it a bit, mud tyres (which I've already got along with some sweet 15x8 alloys) not gonna bother trying to tidy it up, it's pretty rough and I kinda like it like that. Eventually kit it out as a camper but lada takes priority over this. Check this flash Shit out, Still works too!

Gotcha! What time?

Saweeeeet! What we need to bring? And for us who weren't at last year where do we go?

Have we got a plan for tomorrow yet?

Great meet! Beautiful day and a nice cruise out to a choice pub. Thankfully the baby played ball for most the time haha.

Man I fucking love these things, no idea why but I pine so hard for them over the more popular escort vans.

Yeah I'd say we'll be at this, apologies in advance for bringing lame galant wagon haha.

Will try make it, may be in the mundane baby wagon though!

Interior got a scrub down today!

Ah it does have a twin cam! I was wondering that, may have to get it, I heard the "s" models have lsds in them too

Haven't done anything with this yet, but have some more photos, apologies for blurry photos my camera screen lens thing is cracked haha. Got the steam cleaner onto it this avo as well!

That's along the lines of what I want, sufficiently slammed, unsure on reyums though, I'm a big fan of whitewalls on stock steelies with hubcaps, trims etc all on. Like this

Sorry guys in twizel for my godsons 2nd bday so zero updates!

Sorry I didn't have much time to stay and chat/help! Was meaning to ask, how did the imp retrieval go? Also @doullama I was considering that 4g13 minisprint engine that's on the tard, would be pretty awesome but pretty spendy haha.

Been trying to get outside jobs at work the last couple days just so I can gaze at it's beauty! Didn't realise there was such pine for them! Glad you guys like it, been given so much Shit at work for it haha. Obviously I want to restore it to stock to help with the re-vin, but, I've been trying to think of engine conversion ideas.... we had a written off altezza with the beams and 6 speed sitting in our yard but someone else bought it the other day and I thought that would be a pretty sweet idea, there's the obvious fiat twin cam, but they don't yield a heap of grunt. Don't wanna go v8, I want something with all the doorts that revs to 10k haha I just feel something like that would suit it more. Thought about tang and desprang, not a heap of room in the engine bay so that could even be a goer haha, any suggestions?

This is good to know, yeah ladapower seems bloody cheap, gonna have to save up and throw a couple grand at them and do one big order to save on shipping I think. Crazy what you can get for them brand new, couldn't expect to find anywhere near as much stuff for my mitsis as I have for this. How long does stuff usually take to arrive from there?

Cheers guys I'm pretty bloody happy with it to be honest. Has anyone used the website "ladapower.com" before? They do international shipping and have unbelievable amounts of new lada parts for these, brand new panels and everything. Cheers @Carsnz123, might have to take ya up on that! Does the Cedric spin over? @Big Value Buddy I wish I'd have it done by wagnats but there is a lot of rust to deal to so not next year at least haha! May still come up in Phils (my mate from hanmeet) volvo though.

Laugh at me here

What have I done. Build thread here

Then today at work we were all sitting around laughing about what the hell id bought and I thought I'd see if it was seized or not, didn't have very high hopes, but, it turned pretty freely, stoked! Then the obvious next step was to see if it started, cleaned up the plugs and points and hooked up a Jerry can to the fuel pump and it took a few tries but it eventually fired into life, soon after I had a gander and found someone had fucked with the throttle linkages and they were all round the wrong way and pointing in all directions so hooked them back up to what looked to be right and then it actually got off idle! Been thrashing it round the yard after work this evening. Shit it's a hoot to drive and runs so damn well too!! Have a video or 2.

So after hanmeet I got told about an old yard on marshlands road full of rusty old cars, as we were rather hungover from the Saturday night me and my mate couldn't really be bothered going. After having lunch in woodend on the way back I thought we may as well have a gander around as it's on the way home. Holy shit what a good idea that was, the place was amazing and full of rusty old Shit. I then spotted this wee lada 2102 wagon nestled between an HQ wagon and what was left of an XD wagon, I had to look closer, what a little gem, it wasn't as fucked as 90% of the cars in the yard as well, opened the doors and the interior was still very tidy for something that had been sitting in a paddock for over a decade. I had Karl and EJ egging me on to get it but I knew the missus would slaughter me if I came home with another car so I just left it. But then I kept thinking about it. Fast forward 2 weeks and here I am with a car trailer at the yard picking it up. Thankfully the wheels still turned and tyres held air once pumped up. It is dereged but is still in the system, still has wof and rego tags from 2004 as well which will help with revin. It has a lot of rust but looks to be all fixable thankfully. Plans are just to revin at this stage then obvious things like slam, reyums etc. Anyway enough of my sharns, have some pics.