The most striking and mesmerising thing about the Moscow spring are snowdrops or the podsnezhnicks—cars that were left by their owners on a roadside through the winter to rot and get covered with mud, show and ice. Some of the cars make it through winter and will only need a healthy car wash to get going again. Others turn into scrap metal.
We at Bears & Vodka have got ourselves quite a collection of podsnezhnicks over the years and are happy to share it. Please note that the estimated prices are for new and “as good as new” cars. You cannot possibly raise that amount of money off a podsnezhnick.
Iced-in Mercedes-Benz G-Modell. $105,000. Photo by Michael Grineff.
Half-destroyed Lexus IS200. $30,000.
Opel Vectra A. $5,000.
Stripped-down and snowed-under VAZ-2101. $2,000.
Kamikaze VAZ-2105. $4,000.
Moskvitch 2141. $3,500.
Audi 100 C4 Avant. $9,500.
Mercedes-Benz 307D. $5,000.
VAZ-2104. $6,500.
A snowdrop. Origin unknown. Photo by Sergey Grinchenko.
Another VAZ-2107 ($5,000). Photo by Sergey Grinchenko.
The ultimate double hit: ZAZ-1102 Tavriya ($3,300) and VAZ-2106 ($4,300). Photo by Sergey Grinchenko.
