The heck?

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
10/28/2020 at 09:49 • Filed to: Classifieds, Facebook Marketplace

It’s about the last thing I expected to see at a Cleveland OH dealership.

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DISCUSSION (55)

Chariotoflove > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 09:59

“Free Carfax on request”

That could be interesting reading.

Just Jeepin' > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 09:59

That is very cool! That’s the second Volga for s ale to make Oppo this week.

And quite the shifter.

Kinja'd!!!

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:02

Also the angle on that shifter is impressive. I bet shifting this thing is work .

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:03

The second Volga ad post in two days?

Why don’t we just put together an Oppo GAZ consortium and get it over with?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:04

Good luck finding parts for that. I’d have swapped the shift knob...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Chariotoflove
10/28/2020 at 10:04

Not a bad looking car though.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:05

Why does that look like a sex toy?

Roundbadge > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
10/28/2020 at 10:05

GF already hates trying to drive my Tacoma because of the throws...

Having to operate that could end the relationship.

Roundbadge > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/28/2020 at 10:06

It’s a little weird, to say the least.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:08

I like it. I bet 30 years ago in Volga Land that car would be high fashion.

PartyPooper2012 > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:09

Back in SSR of the U, most cars had those resin shifters. Some had flowers embedded. Others stars.

Actually, I’ve been scouring ebay for old soviet era shifter to use in C5.

Amazingly, shifters were smoother than you’d imagine. Throws were longs in sedans and even longer in trucks (dump trucks, busses etc)

Just Jeepin' > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
10/28/2020 at 10:09

In Soviet Russia, car shifts you.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:12

As long as it doesn’t enjoy it too much. . .

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:12

GAZ is interesting. If you read back into the company’s history, back when the USSR and the US were buddies, Ford helped set up the USSR’s automobile production capabilities, initially supplying US built cars and CKDs for the local factories to produce in 1929, and an agreement to provide assistance and expertise scaling production until 1938. Production began in Novgorod in 1932 with the NAZ marque, co-badged as Ford. Essentially the cars were Soviet Model As. Nizhny Novgorod was renamed after Maxim Gorky, so NAZ became GAZ. In the early period, 300 or so Ford workers and their families were relocated to the USSR to assist with production. Most of them either deserted the plant or were Gulag’d or killed in the Great Purge.

Roundbadge > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/28/2020 at 10:13

I don’t hate the look...it just amazes me that it was built in 1991.

“I’m really looking for something that looks sort of like a slightly modernized ‘62 Ford Falcon.”

ranwhenparked > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:16

Aside from the crystal penis shifter, this one has had the original plastic grille swapped for an older chrome one from an older M24, which seems to be a common mod.

I like Volgas, but I don't $20,000 like them. Crazy that this was only a 16,000 ruble car new.

Roundbadge > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
10/28/2020 at 10:19

This is the kind of thing that sends me down a rabbit hole for the rest of the day...

ranwhenparked > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:20

These were built until 2010 - all Volgas from 1970-2010 were basically the same car, aside from the short-lived Chrysler Sebring-based Siber. And the design was even older than that, having been finalized in the mid 1960s, but took s everal years to get into production.

Even the modern looking 1990s era 3111 was just a new body on the same old chassis.

Roundbadge > ranwhenparked
10/28/2020 at 10:26

I’d just learned about the Siber like twenty minutes ago.

ranwhenparked > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
10/28/2020 at 10:27

GAZ also built the largest and most luxurious cars Soviet citizens were permitted to buy new, provided they saved up enough money and could afford the fuel consumption. Most Volga production was still for government fleets, though. They were sometimes referred to as the Soviet Mercedes.

TheJWT > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:27

Back when I lived in Cleveland Heights there was a shop down the street that would have Ladas in their parking lot from time to time...

Just Jeepin' > ranwhenparked
10/28/2020 at 10:28

For a brief moment I thought that was an old Jeep grille.

Kinja'd!!!

Roundbadge > TheJWT
10/28/2020 at 10:29

I think that would fascinate me as much as this does.

ranwhenparked > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:30

I think that was a good example of how little GAZ’s parent company, Russian Machines/Basic Element really cared about the Volga brand and staying competitive, and how little of their vast resources they were willing to invest. Basically, throw it out there for cheap, if it sold, great, if it didn’t, no harm done, just kill it and move on.

GAZ designers came up with a bunch of not too terrible seeming prototypes for new models during the 1990s and 2000s, none of which saw production due to lack of budget.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:33

Volga for sale locally here.

Kinja'd!!!

I think the Russians are coming?

ranwhenparked > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:34

1970-1985 Volga M24, but the Soviets loved taking American styling cues for their cars, wouldn’t surprise me if it was Jeep inspired in some way.

The Volga M21 MkII from 1959 is maybe even more Jeep-like

Kinja'd!!!

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:34

Eez thees auto fast enough to catch moose and squirrel?

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
10/28/2020 at 10:36

I had read that at one time “Studebaker” just meant “truck” in R ussia.

Roundbadge > ranwhenparked
10/28/2020 at 10:40

Head-on, that screams “1955 Chevy” to me...minus the vertical grille slats, of course.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/28/2020 at 10:40

I’d rock that. I’ve found many do not share my opinions though.

facw > Just Jeepin'
10/28/2020 at 10:45

Never forget: https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-a-lexus-for-600-1565335441

Kinja'd!!!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > PartyPooper2012
10/28/2020 at 10:50

Fuck yah, i want a similar shifter in my C5. Let us know if you find one.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > PartyPooper2012
10/28/2020 at 10:51

I learnt to drive in this:

Kinja'd!!!

I love long throws!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 10:53

I like everything about this...

PartyPooper2012 > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
10/28/2020 at 10:54

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-shift-knob-Manual-transmission-Shifter-knob-Gear-lever-car-stick-Shifter/383525901581?hash=item594becd50d:g:aLgAAOSwB6ReqndV

Can you just imagine? Shifting that thing in C5? That would bang against the dashboard AND rear window glass LMAO

PartyPooper2012 > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
10/28/2020 at 10:59

I sure hope that pic is not of YOUR car... that is one filthy dirty girl who likes it rough. DAMN

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > PartyPooper2012
10/28/2020 at 11:02

Lol it aint

Its from the interwebz.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > PartyPooper2012
10/28/2020 at 11:03

Haha, imagine that with ny race seat...FIA seat, 6 point harness and that shifter lmao

PartyPooper2012 > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
10/28/2020 at 11:05

oof

PartyPooper2012 > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
10/28/2020 at 11:08

Might be a bit difficult for ya to buy from russia... but they are for sale

https://www.avito.ru/rossiya?q=%D1%80%D1%83%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%BA%D0%BF%D0%BF+%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > PartyPooper2012
10/28/2020 at 11:09

Fuuuck ya....i need to do some research

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 11:17

Oh, man! I would be all over that, except that $20,000 is way too much...you could probably buy one in Russia in pretty good shape and have it imported including shipping/customs fees/ taxes for less than that...

Roundbadge > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/28/2020 at 11:22

I’m with you on that.

Chariotoflove > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/28/2020 at 11:22

I like it.

Chariotoflove > Roundbadge
10/28/2020 at 11:24

With you. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship with that shift knob.