All these Engine Of The Day honors, and no Russian iron? And yesterday was May Day, comrades? We're going to remedy that oversight right now!
All these Engine Of The Day honors, and no Russian iron? And yesterday was May Day, comrades? We're going to remedy that oversight right now!
57Sweptside loves junkyards, and not just the ones in his native Southwest. He's found for us this collection of photos shot in a Russian yard packed full of Volgas, Moskviches, and even Tchaikas
Whether you're wrenching on a flying Spitfire or a leaking Spitfire, Haynes has a shop manual for you. Very useful, but hardly the sort of thing you'd keep on your coffee table.
Where would we be without English Russia? We wouldn't have heard about the Stalinmobile
We've seen Russian hoons roll a ZAZ
While trolling the tubes for more ZAZ-related goodness by searching for "запорожец" (Zaporozhets), we stumbled across this enigmatic camera-phone video of what appears to be a ZAZ completely covered with a nicely-applied coat of Astroturf. What are we to make of this, dear readers? Are these junior hoods gearing up to …

This story probably deserves a clever "In Russia, noun verb YOU!" title, but sometimes even Los Jalops get a bit burned out on that schtick (and besides, the car may be Russian, but the setting is Lithuanian). What's important here is the ruthless manner in which an illegally parked ZAZ gets removed; instead of the…
Straight outta Holy Mother Russia comes this video of a ZAZ-968 Zaporozhets with quite a few more air-cooled horses in the back than the stock 42. We're not sure what's in the other lane, but it's not as quick as the ZAZ. And damn, that engine sounds meaner than Lavrenty Beria with a hangover.
It's pretty easy to picture the sequence of events leading up to this hoonage. After consulting with several econo-size jugs of vodka, four young Russians eyed the ol' Zaporozhets, then the empty stretch of dirt road, then the ZAZ again. The rest is hoonage history. According to the YouTube poster, "Everybody…