The Abarth Works Museum, which is situated near Antwerp, has posted sale ads on Car&Classic for a significant part of its collection. There are several batch offers – for example, the company hopes to get up to €35,000 for a dozen or so Ladas, some of them sports cars – but the most important exhibits are being offered separately from each other.
The main bundle consists of AvtoVAZ models from 2101 to 2110, as well as their sports-oriented counterparts. The latter category includes a Lada VFTS, which was built based on the VAZ-2105 in Vilnius in the 1980s, a few Samara rally cars, and a Niva off-roader.
The listing is scarce on details and admits that some vehicles are replicas that only look like their historical counterparts on the outside. Some of them started off as regular street-legal cars and were only prepped for racing in the recent years. The minimum asking price for any given car is €5,000.
A small collection of Moskvitch cars is available separately for €21,000. There is a stock 2140 model, a custom 2335 pickup truck swapped to an AvtoVAZ engine, and an unfinished track build wearing Moskvitch 412 bodywork.
Another €12,000 buys you two Volgas. One of them, GAZ-21, is in ‘decent’ condition according to the listing, while the other one, M24 wagon, needs a restoration before it can be driven again. It packs a diesel engine of unknown origins under the hood: the automaker used to build GAZ-24 station wagons with similar engines, but only in small quantities and exclusively for exports, so this has to be one of such cars.
According to Abarth Works, the museum had to put the collection on sale as it was moving to a new building.