Cars, Oysters and Champagne

 Cars, oysters and champagne... after a long hiatus chanced upon another car show here in Moscow on April 22, 2023, and so here is a photo dump

 It was something of a cars and coffee meet but specifically for low cars aka lowered.

 

 

So went to this place called Hlebozavod 9 and found a party there so joined in.

Lada Six

 Here is another "Six" aka Lada VAZ-2106.

Lada street racer aesthetics for you.

Lada 2106

Another Lada VAZ-2106, aka the "Six"... with a BMW emblem.

Lada VAZ-2106 # 6

Here is a Lada VAZ-2106, the No. 6 on the blog.

A Lada VAZ-2106 is colloquially most often referred to as a "six" here in Russia.

This is another one of those Lada street racers.

Abandoned Lada VAZ-2106

Here is an abandoned and overgrown Lada VAZ-2106 car.

Also used as a dump for all kinds of garbage.

Abandoned car Lada 2106

Exhibition Lada Cars

This is from one of my other blogs, VreMax, where I reported on this car exhibition that I visited a year ago - in August of 2014. 

This entry is about the Lada cars I saw there.

Lada VAZ 2101 Zhiguli (Lada) in a rally livery, not sure if original.

VAZ 2103 Zhiguli (Lada) - the deluxe version of the 2101.

2103 and 2106 behind it.

VAZ 2108 Lada Sputnik. Three-door front wheel drive, the first front wheel drive Lada.

There is an urban myth (or maybe not such a myth) that Porsche engineers helped with suspension tuning. 

There will be more Ladas (and all other cars) in my blog, both museum pieces and daily drivers, both in exhibition hall and on the roads of Moscow. Watch this space (i.e. my blog).

Lada VAZ-21061 in Traffic

Last winter (2015) I saw this craggy Lada VAZ-21061.

In city dirt camouflage, with curtains on the back window... God only knows what's going on inside... maybe even nothing unusual. But the brake lights are working.

This one is interesting because the badge here says Lada 1500s which tells a story to a Lada enthusiast like me.

It means it's not the Lada VAZ-2106 (aka Lada 1600) per se although outwardly it looks like one and it's not the Lada VAZ-2103 (aka Lada 1500) which looks different, especially in the rear lights department... but is in fact the Lada VAZ-21061 (Lada 1500s)! 

And the Lada VAZ-21061 (Lada 1500s) is basically the Lada VAZ-2106 but with a motor from the Lada VAZ-2103. Amazing, isn't it? I found out all of this by researching the Lada 1500s on the Internet.