ZAZ, Lada, Ural, SZD in Car Themed Arts Installations

From my other blog, VreMax...

Continuing with pictures from the historic car show at Moscow's VDNKh that I visited in March this year 2015 -- Cars of Our Back Yard -- USSR cars.

Not the first car-themed show I saw at the location -- in August last year we saw Car Industry of the USSR.

But that time I was lazy to make too many photos. This time however I made over 200!

So it is in parts.

Part 1 - the Moskvitch -- is here -- Part 1 Moskvitch Cars.

Part 2 -- ZAZ cars -- is here -- Part 2 Zaporozhets Cars.

Part 3 -- Moto -- is here -- Part 3 Old Russian Motorcycles, Mopeds, etc. 

Part 4 - Lada cars -- is here -- Part 4 Lada Cars. 

Part 5 - Volga cars -- hit this link -- the Volga automobile.

Part 6 - Pobeda cars -- Part 6 the Pobeda GAZ M-20 Automobile. 

And now please enjoy Part 7 - the last part - topical exhibits. 


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Back Yard Garage Exhibit featuring a ZAZ-965

It's a Zaporozhets, a mini-sized, air-cooled rear-engined car.

You can have a good look at this air-cooled engined. Look how easy it is to work on - plenty of access.

So who wants to take it apart and put it back together again?

Lada VAZ-21061 in Traffic

Last winter (2015) I saw this craggy Lada VAZ-21061.

In city dirt camouflage, with curtains on the back window... God only knows what's going on inside... maybe even nothing unusual. But the brake lights are working.

This one is interesting because the badge here says Lada 1500s which tells a story to a Lada enthusiast like me.

It means it's not the Lada VAZ-2106 (aka Lada 1600) per se although outwardly it looks like one and it's not the Lada VAZ-2103 (aka Lada 1500) which looks different, especially in the rear lights department... but is in fact the Lada VAZ-21061 (Lada 1500s)! 

And the Lada VAZ-21061 (Lada 1500s) is basically the Lada VAZ-2106 but with a motor from the Lada VAZ-2103. Amazing, isn't it? I found out all of this by researching the Lada 1500s on the Internet.

Pobeda Cars Exhibited

From my other blog, VreMax, comes this entry on Pobeda cars. 

Another car show at Moscow's VDNKh that I visited -- Cars of Our Back Yard -- USSR cars.

Not the first car-themed show I saw at the location -- in August last year we saw Car Industry of the USSR.

But that time I was lazy to make too many photos. This time however I made over 200!

So it is in parts.

Part 1 - the Moskvitch -- is here -- Part 1 Moskvitch Cars.

Part 2 -- ZAZ cars -- is here -- Part 2 Zaporozhets Cars.

Part 3 -- Moto -- is here -- Part 3 Old Russian Motorcycles, Mopeds, etc. 

Part 4 - Lada cars -- is here -- Part 4 Lada Cars. 

Part 5 - Volga cars -- hit this link -- the Volga automobile.

And now - Part 6 the Pobeda GAZ M-20 Automobile. 

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Pobeda М-20 "Second series"

This body style is still officially known as "Sedan", there's a boot in the back. Although it may look more like present-day hatchbacks or something.

Similarities were noted between the Pobeda and certain Western cars, both American and British. For example, Standard Vanguard was mentioned in this connection.

Some even deduced that there was a bit of copying going on. Well, they deduced wrong. If there was any copying, it was likely going in the other direction, certainly, as far as the Standard Vanguard is concerned.

The Pobeda was developed throughout 1945 and entered production in 1946 whereas the aforementioned Standard Vanguard thing was announced in 1947. The same can be said about other Western Pobeda look-a-likes -- the Pobeda predates them all, so the reverse engineering was likely going in the other direction.

Pobeda GAZ M-20D "Third Series"

Second and third series together.

And this is for those of this blog's readers who have no Russian -- try to find familiar letters at least, will you. But this is Pobeda specs and a short description.

Moskvitch 408

Spotted some weeks back (in May 2015) parked at an apartment house was this white Moskvich 408.

The Moskvitch-408 was a small family car produced by the Soviet car manufacturer MZMA/AZLK between 1964 and 1976. It had some rally successes too.

Vertical rear lights.

Column-mounted shifter -- a hallmark of the First Series M-408. Also, a bench seat in front.

One of my all-time favorite cars.

Two headlights... there were also quad headlight versions.

A whole movie about Moskvitch rally racing in Russian.

Lada VAZ-2105 Traffic Police

Seen in April of this year aka 2015 was this Lada VAZ-2105 Traffic Police specs.

Classic Ladas are still used as traffic and criminal (in more senses than one) police cars here in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.

I am not sure if they are special versions, which were known to exist in Soviet times and sometimes packed more powerful engines making their humble appearances deceptive, or if they are just regular cars in traffic police livery which now seems to be blue on white in Russia (certainly in Moscow), although used to be blue on yellow.

They are not very fast cars but can maneuver into some real tight places.

Volga Cars: Volga GAZ-21, Volga GAZ-24

Introducing Volga cars from my other blog and quoting... 

Another car show at Moscow's VDNKh that I visited -- Cars of Our Back Yard -- USSR cars.

Not the first car-themed show I saw at the location -- in August last year we saw Car Industry of the USSR.

But that time I was lazy to make too many photos. This time however I made over 200!

So it is in parts.

Part 1 - the Moskvitch -- is here -- Part 1 Moskvitch Cars.

Part 2 -- ZAZ cars -- is here -- Part 2 Zaporozhets Cars.

Part 3 -- Moto -- is here -- Part 3 Old Russian Motorcycles, Mopeds, etc. 

Part 4 - Lada cars -- is here -- Part 4 Lada Cars. 

And now Part 5 - the Volga automobile.

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1959 Volga GAZ-M-21I ("Second Series")

Below is the second series Volga and a third series Volga. The main differences in appearance are as follows:

Second series: the Shark (Maw) radiator grille, all-chrome bumper with guards ("fangs"), and also the Deer figurine.

Third series: the Baleen grille, bumper without guards, chrome plated only on top while the bottom is painted and color matched to the body, no Deer figurine.  

Filters on.

The Volga Deer.

Also, this Volga looks exactly like the Volga that (may have) won Grand Prix at Expo 1958 in Brussels. Picture from the Expo'58 catalog.

A Youtube video of the Second Series Volga.

1962 Volga GAZ-21US, Third Series

2nd-Gen Lincoln Town Car

From my other blog come another carspotting trophy.

My DIM - Detroit Iron in Moscow series continues...

Today's full-sized car is a Lincoln Town Car 2nd Generation spotted and photographed by me in Moscow in August last year (2014).

As usual back yards, side roads and narrow alleyways is the places to go to if you want to find these beasts in Moscow.

Lincoln Town Car 2nd Generation 1990-97 in black.

 Looks clean and in good shape.

1970-87 Lada Cars

Another intermission by way of a car-related post from my other blog, VreMax.

Lada cars of the 1970-1987 period. Continuing verbatim. 

Another car show at Moscow's VDNKh -- Cars of Our Back Yard -- USSR cars.

Not the first car-themed show I saw at the location -- in August last year we saw Car Industry of the USSR.

But that time I was lazy to make too many photos. This time however I made over 200!

So it is in parts.

Part 1 - the Moskvitch -- is here -- Part 1 Moskvitch Cars.

Part 2 -- ZAZ cars -- is here -- Part 2 Zaporozhets Cars.

Part 3 -- Moto -- is here -- Old Russian Motorcycles, Mopeds, etc. 

And now - Part 4 - Lada cars (not all of them).

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1975 VAZ-2106 (Lada 1600), a Deluxe version and a development of the VAZ-2103 (see below)

1970 VAZ-2101, the first Lada model.

It is supposed to be the VAZ-2101 but certain things aren't right. I guess it is as close as they could come to a complete VAZ-2001.