Moskvitch Cars 1956-86

Cannibalising my own earlier post on a car exhibition -- basically raiding it for pictures of the Moskvitch to use in this post which will be in my Moskvitch Cars series.

In chronological order, top to bottom

Moskvitch - Second Generation 1956-65

Moskvitch 402 FR RWD

Moskvitch 402 with a Moskvitch 401 "Woodie" in front of it.

Moskvitch 402 (or 403), two tone

Moskvitch 410, a FR AWD version of the Moskvitch 402

Moskvitch 411, a FR AWD Wagon version of the Moskvitch 402.

Moskvitch Third Generation 1965-86

Moskvitch 412

Moskvitch Izh 412 Rally car

Moskvitch 2137 Wagon Rally car

Moskvitch Cars: Moskvitch Izh 2715

This post is the start of a new car spotting series of posts on my blog. 

It will be dedicated to the Moskvitch -- the car named after Moscow meaning a "citizen of Moscow", in production from 1945 to about 2005 when the international capitalists that had come in after the dissolution of the Soviet Union (and their local aiders and abetters) finally managed to destroy it. 

But I am going to remember the Moskvitch on my blog, with the help of Russian citizenry still driving these cars.

Starting with this clean Moskvitch Izh 2715 Panel Van body.

The Izh 2715 is an Izhevsk produced Panel Van variant of the Moskvitch 412, pre-1982.

Still somebody's daily driver and working car, no doubt.

Love the Moskvitch 408 grille and fascia... as interpreted by the Izhevsk car factory.