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Jose posted:Why would anyone come back to England good point I might drive back
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KakerMix posted:I know GBS doesn't actually care much about cars in the technical sense but as an ~AI~ poster I would certainly like to know more. Heck a post over in AI would be the best but all the same, details PLEASE I'm just annoyed he bolted on arches and put that awful bumper on the front... I would definitely like to know more though.
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My fav car ever. I have no idea why but the niva has always been they car I want to drive even though I have no idea if they’re any good. Fantastic photos too very cool trip
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RideTheSpiral posted:good point I might drive back Can I come
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm just annoyed he bolted on arches and put that awful bumper on the front... I would definitely like to know more though. it’s a Russian car. All the parts are garbage. Having said that the bumpers are the best part. They are solid iron and custom made
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Disappointed that it's not a zaporoshjets But to be fair you'd probably die in one on those roads
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i knew a lady who married a cuban dude. he had that thing, you know, where dudes get to be 40 or 50 and they have some decent money coming in and they get onto a singleminded mission to reacquire a car of their youth. well this dude grew up in cuba, so his first car was a Lada. she told me several stories about the absolute wildass meandering hedgemaze of bureaucracy and paperwork it is to get a Lada imported into, not just the united states, but the singular worst state to try to import a foreign car into: california. so anyway he spends a couple years searching and finally finds one, same color, almost the same year, looks just like his baby. they consult with lawyers and import/export guys in like three different countries, get this thing shipped by land and sea, it shows up in the port of long beach and now they play the waiting game as it sits in customs. they just have to sit and wait and hope they have all the right loopholes exploited and paperwork filed. and it clears! he's reunited with his teenage car. 100 miles later the transmission just absolutely grenades. the engine's fine, but the transmission is beyond repair. so he starts searching for parts, a week after his half-decade search for his beloved soviet shitbox concluded. I asked her why she puts up with this. her answer? "because this means he cant ever, never talk poo poo on anything i spend on. horses, motorcycles, don't matter. hes gotta keep his mouth shut for life." seems like a pretty sweet deal for both of em tbh
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Dec 16, 2019 15:42
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This is a super cool thread OP, thanks for posting it.
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big nipples big life posted:This is a super cool thread OP, thanks for posting it. I will continue posting photos if there is some interest. It’s quite time consuming
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Dec 16, 2019 16:04
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Well I'm really enjoying the photos, I'm sure others are as well.
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RideTheSpiral posted:it’s a Russian car. All the parts are garbage. Having said that the bumpers are the best part. They are solid iron and custom made I mean what you've said here in those last two sentences doesn't exactly contradict the first two so I guess we're good?!
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Dec 16, 2019 16:14
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did you put it in H
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Dec 16, 2019 16:52
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into the wakhan valley, along the afghan border. the road from hell. no car can survive this. repairs in every village. most of the worlds heroin comes across this border and it has almost no security.    military installation border of tajikistan, afghanistan, pakistan and china     hello from afghanistan                                       dushanbe. pretty weird place        
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Years ago as a kid I was watching something on TV and idk why but they were driving tanks over cars and they tried it with a lada and the lada just bounced away undamaged
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a quick google did find me this and lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5_u-no8Zs
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Hot lady poster, the universal garage decoration.
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did you pet the dogs
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drat op this loving rules what languages do you speak that you can get help from all these random dudes?
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blatman posted:did you put it in H what does the "H" stand for
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How much of a pain in the rear end is it to do a bunch of border crossings, and do you have to bribe anyone?
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You are my hero OP.
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Inept posted:How much of a pain in the rear end is it to do a bunch of border crossings, and do you have to bribe anyone? massive pain in the arse. yes i paid the Kyrgyzstan authorities $100 because my transit document didn’t have any dates written on. Me and the border guards then wrote a random date on in pen
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Put it in-blatman posted:did you put it in H Goddamnit!!
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Dec 16, 2019 18:08
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God drat some of those photos are taken in beautiful places... Also how many times have you had to stop because virtually every time the car is featured it has the bonnet up or someone underneath it. Are you keeping a solid list of repairs required?
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Dec 16, 2019 18:22
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What is your route? I'm a little confused because surely from Almaty you can go west through Russia into Europe and not due south? Gorgeous pictures, looking forward to the rest!
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Dec 16, 2019 19:03
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Cool thread op. Keep posting!
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Dec 16, 2019 19:17
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I'm glad you have people in that white Land Cruiser shadowing you because doing it alone in that car lmao no way
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Dec 16, 2019 19:21
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Did you go to Borat house
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Dec 16, 2019 19:29
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Amazing pictures, OP, please continue to chronicle this mad quest.
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Voted 5, keep posting OP.
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so whats it like traveling through this area as a white dude (or i guess, a person with hairy pale arms, i shouldn't presume). do you speak urdu? do you feel uncomfortable or is it generally pretty chill? do you have contingency plans for potential hazards like arrest or kidnapping? how much work was it getting all the required visas and travel papers and stuff? glory to arztotska
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What absolutely gorgeous country you're driving through. Amazing, amazing photos. Thread owns
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OMGVBFLOL posted:so whats it like traveling through this area as a white dude (or i guess, a person with hairy pale arms, i shouldn't presume). do you speak urdu? do you feel uncomfortable or is it generally pretty chill? do you have contingency plans for potential hazards like arrest or kidnapping? how much work was it getting all the required visas and travel papers and stuff? you're damned if urdu and you're damned if urdon't, i thinjk
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Good thread. You have a big set of balls on you, too. I’m not sure I’d be up for a solo car journey through Afghanistan.
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Mozi posted:you're damned if urdu and you're damned if urdon't, i thinjk
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Mozi posted:you're damned if urdu and you're damned if urdon't, i thinjk oh great here we go afgain
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Current photo count: Roadside maintenance: 3 At a mechanic: 4
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The title is past tense, why don’t you just tell us what happened
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You magnificent bastard, OP.
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Snowy posted:The title is past tense, why don’t you just tell us what happened No one has guessed how far he got? Afghan-Pakistan border.
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