Back in the old days my dad built his Lada himself. We could not really afford a new one, so he bought and collected parts including the chassis. Then, I think

Back in the old days my dad built his Lada himself. We could not really afford a new one, so he bought and collected parts including the chassis. Then, I think it took half an year or so between his job to assemble it together. With lots of help of course, from my uncle and several books describing the technical details. As a kid, I had minor contributions as well and learned a thing or two about cars in the process. How reliable was the car? Pretty reliable. He drove it for half a decade, at least. At its end, we used the car mainly for pulling a trailer with construction work materials for several years then sold it for scrap. Yeah, you could build a Lada yourself, if you really wanted to.