Formula Easter

Better financed and well-connected teams were able to source these parts from Lada cars specifically made for export markets outside the Eastern Bloc, as those batches exhibited better workmanship and more potential for tuning.

Some teams opted for engines from the Dacia 1300, Polski Fiat 125p, Skoda 105 or Wartburg 353 cars, out of pride for national representation, but these equipment were less popular in the series.

Suspension was usually adapted from the East German Barkas minivans and teams filled the strut legs with in-house mixed oils to enhance their performance.

Deceleration was provided by aftermarket-drilled soviet Lada brake discs, paired with East German, four-piston Wartburg calipers.

Many teams decided to assemble their cars in their own garage or shed, the entire process sometimes taking as long as 4 years, when including the welding of a space frame tubular chassis and the ply-laying of fiberglass or synthetic resin bodywork, with the aerodynamics usually augmented by adding simple front and rear downforce wings.