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Homely/Bizarre Soviet-Era Vehicles: They Waited TEN Years for THIS?
Reaganite Republican ^ | 01 July 2014 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 07/01/2014 3:33:49 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican


Ah, the fruits of socialism: if only we'd allow Dear Leader 
unbridled power, I just know he could make everything better...





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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: industry; socialism; statism; ussr
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To: envisio

The ‘Special Olympics’ of automobiles.


21 posted on 07/01/2014 5:38:53 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: NYFriend; TADSLOS; KC_Lion

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 ;)


22 posted on 07/01/2014 5:41:46 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Great job, RR, again.
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.)


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


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


23 posted on 07/01/2014 5:43:43 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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


24 posted on 07/01/2014 5:50:05 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Norm Lenhart

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

x2 Amen brother!


25 posted on 07/01/2014 5:57:26 AM PDT by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." J RandomFreeper)
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To: Reaganite Republican

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


26 posted on 07/01/2014 6:19:01 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

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.


27 posted on 07/01/2014 6:24:00 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

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


28 posted on 07/01/2014 6:31:50 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: wally_bert
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.


29 posted on 07/01/2014 6:31:52 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Yossarian

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


30 posted on 07/01/2014 6:37:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Might have known you’d beat me to it!


31 posted on 07/01/2014 6:40:49 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: envisio
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.


32 posted on 07/01/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Reaganite Republican

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


33 posted on 07/01/2014 7:03:00 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Norm Lenhart
It looks like they took the grill off a 1964 Galaxy and used it on the 408.
34 posted on 07/01/2014 7:03:57 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Reaganite Republican
The Syrena, from Poland.


35 posted on 07/01/2014 7:06:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Reminds me a little bit of the Crosley.


36 posted on 07/01/2014 7:08:59 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Reaganite Republican
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

37 posted on 07/01/2014 7:16:51 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
In fact it is a photoshop of a 1965 UAZ pickup truck. Here is how does it look for real:
38 posted on 07/01/2014 7:21:52 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: Reaganite Republican
"I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime"

39 posted on 07/01/2014 7:45:56 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

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.


40 posted on 07/01/2014 10:51:39 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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