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www.abarth-gmr.be (website & forum-info) => Lada - Abarth => Topic started by: guy moerenhout on July 20, 2018, 02:18:40 pm
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Soviet «Abarth»,
By the middle of 70-s the managers of Soviet rally team decided to prepare Zhiguli for the highest European level by a foreign firm. In cooperation with Polish affiliate of Castrol they contracted Italian studio Abarth. Since 50’s this famous company had been preparing Fiats (including 124 series) for rally. Why Abarth, where Fiats-124 were known in details, can’t be asked to prepare Zhiguly for rally? In result the car and two engines went in Turin. However the company didn’t meet the deadline, and the deal delayed for long months, the car was finally made and returned in the USSR. Test drives on Dmitrovsky practice ground and then in Tolyatti showed that the car had 140 horse power and kept steadily 175 km/h.
The car, prepared by Abarth, was taken by Brundza as a sample, when he began to prepare his first LADA for rally «Akropolis» in Greece 1976. He worked in one of the boxes of sport-technical club of Force and Navy Volunteer Society in Lithuania. It was approved by its chief S. Ramoshko. In Greece Brundza managed to take the second place in class up to 2000cc, and the sixth in the absolute qualification.
Akropolis race. The next car, in which all good findings, mistakes and experience from competitions were taken into account, Stasys Brundza was making in a new workshop
https://www.ladamoscow.com/single-post/2018/02/22/Soviet-Autosport-PART-1?layout=list%2F90d51ef1-311a-d5b2-34b9-5a1543cee106%2F41b15961-e286-cf1e-b2ab-972cb96239f4%2F00ad9a15-99d5-f087-977a-1bf294f40c67
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Car must be a Lada 1500 S our Zhiguli (his name in USSR) because from a 1200 (2101) you can not make 140 hp .
This type was in Acropolis Rally to so we start all the way back to build it again
We buy a USSR car bring it to Poland and will come to Abarth Works Museum
It must be same color yellow from Brundza Car in 1976 and we have found one . Its on his way to Lier
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I find now 3 differents info about this project so now we will let reborn this
I was buying in a ex USSR country a Lada 2103(1500 S) via Poland (Polski Fiat) One info told us that Castrol via Polski fiat team was working with Russia and Italy. The see allso on some periodic Lada rallycars the Castrol stickers . it comes to Belguim .
Now its in our museum and we will tray to make the car like Abarth was working on the Fiat 125/124 cars were the Lada (Zghili) was base one .Till 1972 Fiat Corse and Abarth was working on 125. I have still a Fiat 125 that was prepared by Abarth for Paul Frere in our museum and will use some triks that was done on this car to reborn the LADA -Abarth car