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  • ArthurDent

    Aug. 24, 2010 11:58 p.m. ArthurDent Reader

    $0 interior repair on my Lada Niva

    This is what my interior looked when I got it (after a few hours of cleaning mind you). Missing bits, switches and a mess of wires.

    1995 Lada Niva Cossack 1.7i interior

    Added a Triumph Spitfire headlight switch, some scrap sheet metal and a little paint I added the panel around the heater controls. And that panel below the heater controls? I created that with some misc early Niva interior plastic, some wood wall paneling, and some random switches (one from a 70s Mini and other two are just old parts store ones I had in stash). The wood grain give it a bit of class eh? :) No out of pocket expenses so far on the interior. I know its not perfect but its functional now! Floor mats added from the 1991 Niva as well. Still have to re-hook up the wires but very close.

    New dash panel with a dash of class

  • 1988RedT2

    Aug. 25, 2010 8:11 a.m. 1988RedT2 Reader

    Was that little yellow duck standard equipment on that model?

  • HappyJack

    Aug. 25, 2010 8:37 a.m. HappyJack Reader

    The rubber duck was the best improvement.

  • Lugnut

    Aug. 25, 2010 8:40 a.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    What an improvement! And good thinking. But in Soviet Russia, rubber duck drives you. No, wait, that doesn't work.

  • Aug. 26, 2010 11:12 a.m. twolittlebroncos New Reader

    You have to love a car that size with that many shift levers. I saw lot of those Nivas down in Venezuela. Look like lots of fun.

 
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