A friend had an orange "Rally Manta" with a black rally stripe. A couple of years back, we thought of putting it together but it needed too much sheet metal work that we gave up on it. Finally it ended up in the junk yard
You could have pulled a Flintstone and braked with your feet either from the floorboard or from the front firewall/wheel well area.
Eventhough they are great cars it is difficult to get parts for em here and they tend to be rust buckets...
Some time ago I saw an SCCA track car that was for sale which was very clean and the guy was asking $6500 for it.Unless you find a very clean example (chasis/bodywise) I would stay away from it...
Another friend of mine owns a very clean, 71 red GT with webers which has been sitting in his garage on jackstands for about 10 years. Me and a bunch of friends have been trying to convince him to finish the suspension conversion but doesn't care for it... (Probably one of the better cars still around)
Oscar
rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!