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Katerina and her 401-th
It is believed that the car craze - the prerogative of the stronger sex, but this is misleading. Girls, too indifferent to cars and can spend hours in the garage with wrenches, paying for it is spoiled manicure. Mistress of the rare "Moskvich-401" Ekaterina is just such.
The first car was the Porsche 968 girls who bought Ekaterina 8 March 14 years ago. This car girl reeled than one hundred kilometers and managed to make some changes to the design, for example, put yourself soundproofing.
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Then, in her garage appeared "Niva" and "Moskvich-401", and after moving to the United States Katya moved to the diesel Passat B5 and traversed Volkswagen Touareg. Rare 401st Catherine appeared by chance came across one article about the restoration of an old "Moskvich-401", and the girl fell in love with the car at a glance. Then it was bought by the newspaper "Hand in Hand" and viewed all the ads for the sale of the model. After several calls to the car was found. But in what condition ...
To get the car to the garage hostess only at the second attempt - but their own. And began work on its restoration and tuning, and Catherine did a lot myself. The project was also conceived as a girl: she wanted to make an unusual 401-th city car.
The first step is to replace the engine: with the new gearbox borrowed from the VAZ 2106 suspension came from the "Moskvich-412".
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In the course of the work had to expand the wings, because the bridges on the 412 th wider housing 401 th. Cardan taken from the VAZ 2101, shortened and balanced at the factory.
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From native to the machine leaving only the body, the seats and dashboard, the instruments themselves are taken from the VAZ 2106. All changes to the design have been agreed with the certification body of automotive products, "US funds," and they received an official document.
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After the transformation of the car became a frequent guest various exhibitions, which was getting its way. Failures, of course, there were mostly small, all of the many different parts of the machine. After some time with the mistress of the car moved to the new place of residence - in the US.
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On the other side of the ocean "Moskvich-401" was a real Autoexotics. According to Catherine, the exhibition to her constantly approach with the same question: "This is a mini copy of any machines?" Because, by American standards, the 401 really is very small.
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In general, the 401st has attracted much attention of Americans, and even become a subject of controversy. Many local motorists take the old "Moskvich" for Opel, while others believe that it is a small copy of Ford. Typical questions that piled on Catherine at each exhibition: How old is your car, where she have battery is located under the seat as well - because it's dangerous! And Americans are very surprised by the size of the machine and to find out that she is from Russia, asked: "Are all these little Russian !?»
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The first car was the Porsche 968 girls who bought Ekaterina 8 March 14 years ago. This car girl reeled than one hundred kilometers and managed to make some changes to the design, for example, put yourself soundproofing.
16 photos, text
02
Then, in her garage appeared "Niva" and "Moskvich-401", and after moving to the United States Katya moved to the diesel Passat B5 and traversed Volkswagen Touareg. Rare 401st Catherine appeared by chance came across one article about the restoration of an old "Moskvich-401", and the girl fell in love with the car at a glance. Then it was bought by the newspaper "Hand in Hand" and viewed all the ads for the sale of the model. After several calls to the car was found. But in what condition ...
To get the car to the garage hostess only at the second attempt - but their own. And began work on its restoration and tuning, and Catherine did a lot myself. The project was also conceived as a girl: she wanted to make an unusual 401-th city car.
The first step is to replace the engine: with the new gearbox borrowed from the VAZ 2106 suspension came from the "Moskvich-412".
05
In the course of the work had to expand the wings, because the bridges on the 412 th wider housing 401 th. Cardan taken from the VAZ 2101, shortened and balanced at the factory.
07
From native to the machine leaving only the body, the seats and dashboard, the instruments themselves are taken from the VAZ 2106. All changes to the design have been agreed with the certification body of automotive products, "US funds," and they received an official document.
09
After the transformation of the car became a frequent guest various exhibitions, which was getting its way. Failures, of course, there were mostly small, all of the many different parts of the machine. After some time with the mistress of the car moved to the new place of residence - in the US.
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On the other side of the ocean "Moskvich-401" was a real Autoexotics. According to Catherine, the exhibition to her constantly approach with the same question: "This is a mini copy of any machines?" Because, by American standards, the 401 really is very small.
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In general, the 401st has attracted much attention of Americans, and even become a subject of controversy. Many local motorists take the old "Moskvich" for Opel, while others believe that it is a small copy of Ford. Typical questions that piled on Catherine at each exhibition: How old is your car, where she have battery is located under the seat as well - because it's dangerous! And Americans are very surprised by the size of the machine and to find out that she is from Russia, asked: "Are all these little Russian !?»
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