USSR Cars Exhibition

Another car show at Moscow 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's in parts.

Part 1 - the Moskvitch -- they were the most numerous. 

Entrance to the Exhibition - Pavilion No. 2.

Tickets - RUB 250.

Exhibit No. 1 - 1954 Moskvitch 401-422, Woodie station wagon, typically used as a light commercial vehicle (LCV) at the time, to use present day's terminology.

A look at the motor.

Cargo compartment.

1954 Moskvitch 401

This car deserves to star in an own movie.

1957 Moskvitch 410, full wheel drive

Front wheel.

Like a real car, it drips, which further proves that these cars are real.

1963 Moskvitch 403 - export model

Different fascia, somewhat gentrified.

1964 Moskvitch 408, quad headlights, also coach lights (kind of) on C-pillar.
 

Quad lights! 

In my opinion, this is the best front end the Moskvitch ever had.

Moskvich 2140 in Cuba

Moskvich 2140 in Cuba... kinda off the street

Source 

T .@yamirobaina .@joelhirst This is not a post-conflict photo; it's a typical scene in communist #Cuba today. RT pic.twitter.com/GimyJlDoS9.
— Jose Cardenas (@JoseCardenasUSA) July 22, 2014

One of my favorite cars

British Pathé: 85,000 Archived Newsreels Online

British Pathé has put some 85,000 archived newsreels online.

British Pathé on youtube.

The archive is searchable.

For example, I found some videos on Russia's Moskvich 408 car, no sound.

And another one -- Russian cars - Moskvich 402 x 2 and then Volga GAZ 21, I think, no sound though

Even some on watches and clocks, though not many

AChS-1 Board Clock on Dashboard

Last summer I made some pics of my AChS-1V aviation clock that I keep at my country log cabin. As a backdrop I used the dashboard of my 2008 Second Gen Ford Focus II face-lifted (European).

I thought it looked good in that setting. The idea crossed my mind of how interesting it would be to install it in or on the dash kind of permanently.

Turns out I am far from the first who has ever had that idea.

A week back I was watching on Youtube a 1972 Russian film Gonshchiki (Rally Racers) featuring rally driving in the Moskvich 412 one of my favorite cars, like this one (Internet pictures).

Interior

 

Nice interiors! Check out the bordello-red (vinyl -- no animals were harmed etc.) seats and upholstery, nicely combined with the black dashboard & central stack.

And in some of the rally cars shown in the film, they definitely had an early version of AChS-1 installed on the dashboard in the center.

Here is the film but it's in Russian and no English subtitles. Good film.