Here is a Moskvitch-402 with a very early grille that never made it into mass production.
As you can see, it's not a proper sighting but rather some copy photography of exhibits at an art installation dedicated to the car at Moscow's North River Terminal that was visited last month.
The time is the early 1950s and the venue is in front of the North River Terminal in Moscow; and here is what it looks like today after a recent renovation.
The early and quite menacing grille that was not seen when mass production of the car started in earnest in the late 1950s through 1960s.
In fact, in some ways it is similar to that of the Opel Olympia Rekord.
And here is the art installation in question titled the Dream of the Moskvitch.
After the jump, there is a bonus: photo travel at the location in question.
