Soviet And Russian Cars That You Would Never See

WANT!

Is that purple car called Peter?

this is in the Riga Motor Museum...





and so is this- Stallin's limousine, with armour plating and 80mm thick glass!



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now thats a quote-



anyone who describes disc brakes and radials as 'technical novelties' is alligned with my way of thinking

Nice info Generallee.

Here's my favourite Soviet car video ever. Its for the off road variant of the GAZ Pobeda, the M72.



After reading Andrew Thompson's excellent Cars Of The Soviet Union (buy it, it's fab) I understand that the M72 was built by dropping the body of a Pobeda on to the chassis and running gear of the GAZ 69 off roader, also built in house at the Molotov plant.

Not many were built in the end, despite the shots of the production lines. Thompson reckons 30 at the very most. I'd wager that most of the cars you see in the long shot at the end were standard Pobedas parked to flesh the shop floor out. I'd imagine the M72 variants went down a special line.

GAZ inadvertently invented the SUV about 60 years before such a niche existed. The prospect of a Pobeda M72 appeals far more to me than a BMW X6 though!

www.amazon.co.uk/Cars-Soviet-Union-Andrew-Thompson/dp/1844254836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1286565628&sr=8-1

I remember hearing an awesome, although possibly wrong, fact a few years ago about one of the large Russian cruisers, I'm thinking either the ZiL ^^^ or a top-end Moskvitch of a few years ago - apparently when the model was being designed, the KGB (one of their biggest customers at the time) specified that the boot must be big enough to hold at least 2 bodies at full stretch. I really, really, hope that's true.

Lada EVA (experimental vilnius autoplant ) made by VFTS (-Вильнюсская фабрика транспортных средств) company. The car was used (tested) on some grp B tracks as a safety car (i think the first test was in Finland) but whan FIA closed the B group that was the end for Lada EVA too...
And here are the photos from my personal collection. I'm glad that I have seen them and had chanse to touch them.
















































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