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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: SES1066
I still wonder if Cinnamon drivers of the time had a clue why I was cracked up laughing when I would drive by them.

It was hard to hold back the mirth at someone gullible enough to buy such a POS foisted so cynically on them.

Some car magazine tested it and suggested it drove like an Accord that did not run very well.

41 posted on 07/01/2014 10:57:13 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Reaganite Republican

"My little babushka, we must buy it. We paint it, take kids, go camping in woods, and wrestle bears."

42 posted on 07/01/2014 5:09:12 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Free Vulcan

A Russian RV?


43 posted on 07/01/2014 5:09:44 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Reaganite Republican

I never click your links but this topic is very interesting


44 posted on 07/01/2014 5:15:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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If they designed on, I imagine it’d probably look like that. Most likely doesn’t run for crap, but if it did it seems like it’d be a helluva lot of fun.

“Quiet children! This is Russian RV, we do not need road to get to camp! We make road!”


45 posted on 07/01/2014 5:51:25 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: wetphoenix

was the 408 anything like the one in the picture? How’d it run?


46 posted on 07/01/2014 6:43:56 PM PDT by NYFriend
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To: NYFriend

It was exactly the same, but our was a 4 door sedan. I have never actually seen a coupe version pictured there, it is probably a prototype.
How has it run? Well, not so good comparing to modern cars but not too bad comparing to the rest of European small cars from the 1960s. AFAIK the engine was a BMW knock-off.


47 posted on 07/01/2014 6:50:16 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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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

48 posted on 07/02/2014 6:33:05 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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