Originally Posted by 51PanelMan

A Lada is a Russian made car based on the Fiat-124. My uncle had one in Russia and I remember riding around in it when I was a kid. My aunt learned to drive in it.

A Yugo is a very distant cousin....

Originally Posted by bobbytnm

Ilya, 56panelford
Thanks, learn something new everyday
They sound like tough little cars...cool

AX, you forgot to mention "church keys". There was always one in your glove box, (at least) one in your tool box, one in your trunk, etc, etc, etc

Bobby

Originally Posted by bobbytnm

Now, now, thats a quality repair. I mean, three seperate pieces of double wrapped bailing wire? not to mention that each strand is twisted at least 4 to 5 times...nicely done.

That repair "tastes as good as its name" or something like that....

Lada??? what in the world is a Lada??

Bobby

Originally Posted by AXracer

I used that repair solution more than once back in my poor teen days, except I used steel oil can material rather than the aluminum beer can. For the youngsters: oil was once sold in these round 1 quart metal cans that you used a large push in spout (most everyone carried one in their trunk wrapped in an oily rag. The rag was used to keep the excess oil on the spout from running all over the paper grocery bags full of the bread milk and eggs your mom always need you to pick up and to wipe the dipstick with to see how many quarts you needed to add) to puncture the top and empty thru. The metal cans gave way to round cardboard cans with steel top and bottom that opened with that same push in spout, except that one out of every ten or so you opened the cardboard split from the pressure when you pushed the spout in especially is it had been rolling around in your trunk for a while. (In addition to the spout you would also carry around a can or two of oil for emergency additions when you were too broke to buy a fresh quart at a service station). Back then you would actually buy oil out of a rack between the gas pumps or in the sales room of a "service" station rather than at Walmart or the drug or grocery store, and a young guy (or a old grumpy one) in greasy coveralls would pump your gas and pour the oil into the engine for you and take your payment while you sat in your car, even if it was raining or cold outside! Now most oil comes in rectangular plastic bottles with a screw cap and built in pour spout, and one 1/2 sheet of paper towel packed in a sandwich baggy in the glove box will clean off the dipstick twice a year for as many years as you own the car (IF you know where the dipstick is located and how to open the hood).

Originally Posted by 56 Sweety

SAE 10 - 30 still good today !! It must have needed rings in order to carry this much in the cab.

Originally Posted by AXracer

Those can't be very old based on the fact they are packed in a 1/2 box covered with shrink wrap. Older style of packaging would have been a full cardboard box of 24 cans packed 2 high with glued flaps top and bottom. (I unpacked more of those boxes in my teen years than I care to remember. AFAIK the spouts are still available at auto parts stores or check at Northern Tools or Harbor Freight, especially on the everything is one price tables.