{"id":178,"date":"1992-08-16T14:10:00","date_gmt":"1992-08-16T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-01-05T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T10:54:38","slug":"in-the-begining-there-was-the-lada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"In the begining there was the Lada. -p"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer 1992 saw me pass my A-Levels, it was fully my intention to get a Job and start earning real money. In early August I pursueded my Dad to lend me som money to buy a car ( It would help finding and going to a Job&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we trotted of to look at some cars, I quite liked a MK1 Astra estate, hated an FSO Polenez, decided a Type 2 VW camper was too dangerous.. and Eventulay we went to look at some Ladas..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family had had 3 Ladas ( Old 1600, a 1300 and a Riva 1600 SLX!!! ) But I wanted something a little less dated&#8230;. ( the RWD ladas were great fun to drive mind!! )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventual we found a cheap Samara 1300L ( F923 EDS ) In off white ( I can&#8217;t remember the exact name.. )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was quite a revelation from the old Riva, quite modern in many respects. It was a good little car for the money. Plenty of space, resonably economical, resonably nippy and sort of handled!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had it for two years, the clutch failed which was a nightmare tyring to go up Honister pass with virtualy no grip left in the clutch!! and the Clutch center forgot to put a bolt in so the gearbox mount came loos a couple of weeks later!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it had a ignition box fault, I thought it was the carb so had that stripped at least 3 times..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventual it was sold to my sister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer 1992 saw me pass my A-Levels, it was fully my intention to get a Job and start earning real money. In early August I pursueded my Dad to lend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twistedpear.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}