Yeah, the US never got any Lada vehicles...some Canadian friends of mine have told me about having rusty ones in the 80s...one friend had a Lada sedan one as his first car in Saskatchewan. (one odd thing--autocorrect keeps trying to change 'Lada' to 'Yada')...
Speaking of Pintos, my sister's first car was a '76 Runabout...I've long threatened to build a model of it for her...she had it for about 5 years from 1976 on, through college..it was a worn out, dented rusty mess by 1980, but it got her and her husband from Ohio to Arizona w/ a U-Haul trailer..