There's a brake proportioning valve fitted to the car to move its stopping power to where you need it, too.

My first vehicle was (and still is) a '91 Jeep Comanche. I bought it in 2012 with 473,000 km, ~290,000 miles on the clock. It was awesome, when it was working. I've still got it, but it's sitting under a snow drift waiting for a new motor. The odometer's just shy of 500,000 km now, but no words against the 4.0 in it,…

I would argue that the heaters do tend to fail. The one in my Niva failed pretty spectacularly. It's not the best setup, as all fresh air entering the car must go though the heater core (or the vent window that doesn't latch). So there's a valve to control the flow of coolant through the core. The valve stays shut all…

My dad once hit a construction pylon — a delineator; the thin one, not the barrel — and tore out his transmission cooler lines, lost all his ATF, and cooked the tranny. Be careful with them barrels.

Fluid film. Youtuber I used to follow, by the name of Corvair Wild, swore by it. It tends to flow along surfaces, so it covers everything pretty well, stays on there well enough, and it's lanolin-based so it's more environmentally friendly than petroleum products. CW eventually started using the Marine-grade fluid…

No, this is not a car built in '81. The interior was radically updated in the early '90s. But beyond some of the slightly more modern trim pieces and the mpfi (vs tbi... obvious from that intake manifold, mine looks like it should have a carb stuffed somewhere) this Niva is almost identical to my '96. Except mine's…

I'm sure someone else has already pointed it out in the copious replies, but I'm not convinced this guy has really been through as many motors as he claims. This first "new motor", if you read the paperwork he provided, isn't a new motor at all.

Don't you dare. Only engine that belongs under that hood is an AMC.

My Lada pulls a solid 71-80%. Hells to the yeah!
But my Comanche only gets a 6-10%... I call shenanigans!

Late to the party, but my Niva gets 115 points. Hell to the yeah!
My Comanche only gets 80. Pouty face. Wait, since it's only half-unibody, I'm taking back half of the -20. So it gets a 90. Ha.

In western Canada, I've seen very few Eastern Block cars, period. In fact, I can almost count the ones I've seen on the fingers of one hand:
1 Yugo (in a wrecking yard in rural Manitoba)
1 Lada Samara (in the same wrecking yard)
1 Lada Riva (at a farm yard in Rural Manitoba, it moved around the yard and generally looked…

My Lada lives in a heated garage, so usually I just get in and drive. I have to get out to shut the garage door, though, and there are a few lights and things before I get onto the freeway, so generally it's good to go by the time I get there. At work, however, it sits outside in the cold with no opportunity to use…

Anyone looking in the window must think there's a high-end chop shop set up in there. How often do you see a Lambo that stripped down?

Nothing wrong with old Jeep pickups!

The tight course makes it look faster than it was, although it's pretty well a guarantee the drivers slowed down as much as they were able. It looks to me like the rally driver slowed to less than half his original speed.

This is actually not the worst idea in the world. Salad dressings are usually oil-based, so it might have worked in a pinch, if, say, you were stranded in the middle of nowhere with urgent non-food related needs that you needed to get out of the middle of nowhere quickly to attend, but you broke your oil pan and lost…

Interesting thing I noticed, I wonder how the tire wear compares to human-operated vehicles. The car seems to be "bouncing" back and forth between the white lines, even in a straight line there's a lot more steering input than I expected.

My first was a '91 Jeep Comanche. I drove it for two years, then discovered that it's a bad idea to do 115 mph in a 23 year old Jeep with 310,000 miles on the clock... the main bearings started disintegrating. It's currently sitting in my parents driveway, awaiting a motor swap.

This view of the harsh and forgotten is definitely reinforced by the mid- to late soviet architecture.

In case you don't get the reference...