As people age and start thinking about buying a classic, they often gravitate toward the car they longed for in their youth.

Pretty much everything manufactured in the Soviet Union was stouter but cruder than their Western counterparts. Today's Nice Price or No Dice GAZ-69 allows us to experience that firsthand.

Among the few luxury cars in the Soviet Union, the GAZ-13 and GAZ-14 ... couldn’t purchase a Chaika - it was never in open sale. This was a luxury car for middle-level officials.

An up-armored GAZ-69. The GAZ-69 was one of the earliest Soviet off-road vehicles. The first example of the 3,500-pound, four-wheel-drive truck rolled off the assembly line at the Molotov plant in ...