Homely/Bizarre Soviet-Era Vehicles: They Waited TEN Years for THIS?

Reaganite Republican ^ | 01 July 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Ah, the fruits of socialism: if only we'd allow Dear Leader 

unbridled power, I just know he could make everything better...

More at Reaganite Republican...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The ‘Special Olympics’ of automobiles.

[Norm Lenhart]

I don’t know if you are a gamer, but the Fallout games have one car I wish would have been made in real life. the “Chryslus Corvega”. It looks like a 50’s concept car gone horribly, horribly wrong.

http://www.cwaboard.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=102211

I know beauty is in the eye of the beer holder and all, but this thing is just wrong to the point of being awesome. It looks like a 55 Chevy and an ElCamino/Ranchero had sex. Then again I actually like the Edsel. No, Seriously ;)

[Yossarian]

Great job, RR, again.

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This car - the "???" - probably a home-made deal - has some lines worth preserving in something down the road:

(Sure, get a hood that fits, and put a scoop on the hood, and modernize the whole design, but there's a kernel of a good rally car somewhere in there.)

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This one could be the design starter yeast for some over-the-top hot-rod truck:

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And as others have mentioned, there is something fun in the lines of the Moskvich 408 Tourist that could be expanded upon:

[wally_bert]

I loved the communist cars episode. The commies built some sad stuff.

[Clay Moore]

“That Moskovicj 408 would be a flat awesome hot rod done up as a Pro street/Gasser.”

x2 Amen brother!

[envisio]

Thanks for the post. I just spent the better part of an hour going to the links under the pictures. Good stuff.

[envisio]

I visited the links under the pictures. Why am I strangely attracted to these fugly vehicles?

Click the link under the green Pinzgauer. Up to $19k. Man, I’d like to have one of those to play around on my land.

It says they only have 90 horsepower and slow as Christmas. But the transmission is twice the size of the engine. With all 6 wheels locked it will yank the gates off of hell in low gear.

[MHGinTN]

The BBC program, Top Gear, based upon all things transportation in personal vehicles has done specials on these cars.

[SES1066]

The commies built some sad stuff.

When something is designed and built by a committee, it is USUALLY sad/bad stuff. Here in the US we have epic examples of our own. The good stuff has someone's inspiration and desire behind it and in the modern car companies with international markets and cost constraints, these very seldom come to market.

My epic American fail since it was for the premium car line; the Cadillac Cimarron (1982), a rebadged Chevy J-car to attract BMW fans to an American small luxury car.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Wasn’t some guy named Naderizov shipped off to the gulag for saying that Moskvich 408 Tourist was “unsafe at any speed”?

[MHGinTN]

Might have known you’d beat me to it!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

A fleet of those vehicles would qualify you to put a big sign up labeled 'Bizzaro Ranch'. The fun part would be coming up with names for each vehicle.

This truck kills me. It violates every rule ever written. Only thing wrong with it it appears the wheels are all the same size.

[Vendome]

Epic fail and proves their taste is all in their mouth...

[painter]

It looks like they took the grill off a 1964 Galaxy and used it on the 408.

[dfwgator]

The Syrena, from Poland.

[nascarnation]

Reminds me a little bit of the Crosley.

[MasterGunner01]

Hardly compares to the East German's Trabant. Underpowered, shoddy construction, overpriced, and waiting lines for years, it was a gem of socialist manufacturing technology.

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

[wetphoenix]

In fact it is a photoshop of a 1965 UAZ pickup truck. Here is how does it look for real:

[GBA]

"I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime"

[doorgunner69]

That truck sort of reminds me of that fugly NY hag with the sloppy lips that moved to Florida and is always yammering for the democrats.