My grandpa is getting up their in age and has asked me to clean out some of the storage units he had so the family doesn't have to deal with a clusterfuck of crap when he dies. I knew he hoarded quite a few cars, but this one was a surprise. It took me hours to figure out what kind of car it is, and I honestly thought I was getting memed on when I figured out what it was, a GAZ 14 Chaika.
I have no idea how he got it in the US and he doesn't even remember it, but the title I found for it today does appear to be legit and in his name. I think it's a pretty cool car and he said I was welcome to it, but my question is would parts for a Soviet Union era car even exist anymore? Probably not, right?
Pic semi related, exactly like it but the one I'm dealing with still has a bunch of junk on top of it
Definitely going to be difficult to find stuff for it. Parts availability is going to be just as difficult as trusting a track suited Russian in following through with sending the parts on top of it.
Oliver Bennett
Russians love selling their old useless shit to the U.S. you just have to use regular good business sense and not get scammed.
Cameron Barnes
You're probably gonna find it difficult to get parts in because of sanctions, I've had shipments from Russia get stopped at port. A skilled machinist and a resourceful chap could get over most of the hurdles quite easily though anyway.
Christopher Reyes
Good to know, I had forgot about the sanctions. And my concern was less of big one time parts as to more things like oil filters and whatnot. I did a little research after posting and haven't found one resource for oil filters. So I'm thinking this would just end up being a garage ornament and vodka shelf rather than something to ever drive
Adrian Ward
you measure the oil filter you stupid fucking cuck
Noah Lopez
Assuming the car is complete, maybe look into doing an engine swap with a reliable American motor you can easily get parts for. A shame to not keep it original, but it may be your only method for getting it on the road reliably. You would have to fab up pretty much everything yourself so don't expect it to be easy
Brody Reyes
>grandpa has a Soviet limousine and doesn't even remember how he got it into the US kek
memes aside, be thankful that your grandfather has that sort of foresight and empathy, almost all of my elderly relatives have left shitstorms for me to clean up after they passed away.
>I think it's a pretty cool car and he said I was welcome to it, but my question is would parts for a Soviet Union era car even exist anymore? Probably not, right? they certainly exist, getting them will be the tricky part. Your best bet would be eBay for smaller spares and dedicated vehicle importers for larger parts.
take good care of her user, I'm pretty jealous tbqh. I have mountains of East Bloc equipment but my only Soviet-era ride is a Simson S51.
>You're probably gonna find it difficult to get parts in because of sanctions a lot of Russian retailers have been shipping through Ukranian proxies to get around restrictions, others smuggle shit through and hope it doesn't get seized.
>even thinking about engine swapping it >ever REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I mean if he can get it running and cobble together American maintenance parts to keep it running, keep it how it is. But if it's in disrepair, which if it sat in a storage unit for decades which it sounds like it did, he will be spending a ton trying to source obscure parts that very well may never get past customs, and probably never drive it
Cameron Rivera
Pics! Pics! Pics!
Grayson Torres
If the oil water pump wears you'll get an impeller from a chebby or something and make it fit, if the cam wears you send it off to whoever and get a billet replacement made, you measure the threads on the oil filter and find a suitable replacement, if the rad rots out you send it off and get an ally replica made up, if hoses burst you send it off to a vintage hose company and get a set made up, etc etc. Running super rare cars isn't hard, hundreds of thousands do it around the world with far less resources. In America you've got so many specialised auto related companies that do pretty much anything you want. It's just a matter of wanting to do it.
Asher Taylor
>a matter of wanting to do it
And a matter of having the funds to do it. The resources may be there but that doesn't mean they are cheap
Carter Powell
Yeah if you expect Honda Accord running costs you're gonna be disappointed. But you can say the same about any rare car.
Leo Watson
Ok thanks everybody, I'm gonna get it dug out in the coming days, clean it off and see what it needs. Since I'm getting it for basically free and I have a regular car there is no urgency for me to have it driveable. I'll just plug away at it as I have time and see where that gets me
Elijah Reed
Yes that was nice of him, the thing is that he knows I'm a minimalist that can tell the difference between trash and things that matter. If he let any of his kids do it, they would be packing their cars full of stuff and taking it home. There were boxes stacked to the ceiling up front that I thought would take days to sort through, until I got them down to find them all empty. I put them all in the trash, anyone else would have put them in their car to "use"
Hunter Jones
Chaika on the front page
Thomas Sanchez
AYO HOL UP
IT'S REAL COMMIE HOURS, SMASH DAT MO'FUGGIN REPLY BUTTON IF U STILL UP
Christopher Richardson
This
Isaac Rodriguez
>He doesn't realize that commie cars were designed to be beat with him a hammer to work again
They were built for the shittiest fuel and the shittiest conditions. You'll barely need parts just your bare hands. Trust
John Ward
I thought that was just for Crimea, no?
Jacob Butler
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Hudson Nelson
Ay gopnik, it's that chaika, blyat! Oi cyka, piezdec!
Bentley Scott
get parts from kazakhstan, georgia, ukraine, armenia etc.
Charles Perry
I doubt you'll find any parts for Chaika even in Russia, lol. Those were like... RARE even in USSR times. You'd better off replacing them with customized US parts. Might even go full retard and put modern v8 in it lol
Gabriel Gutierrez
In the end it probably isn't all that different under the hood from whatever the hell stolen/smuggled American landyacht they copied it off. With some strong googlefu you might be able to replace the commie parts with genuine American parts. If not, it probably can be fixed with a hammer and some welding. Not like Soviet/Russian cars were ever that hightech or fancy mechanically, they were basically just inferior clones of American engines, sometimes even using American or western made engines. Perkins diesels, Opel and BMW engines used in the Moskvich comes to mind first.
Leo Jones
Get a 'CYKA" vanity plate if you get it running. Keep a SBR AK in the passenger's seat.
Lincoln Howard
>You'd better off replacing them with customized US parts. Might even go full retard and put modern v8 in it lol disgusting
Liam Morris
>sanctions You don't have to import from Russia. Any of the former Soviet union will have them, or ship them from Russia to them and then on to you.
