Car Show Car Exhibits Part 7

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 with - plenty of access.

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

GAZ-21 Volga Car x 3

Starting a new car spotting series of posts on my blog -- Moscow Cars -- all interesting cars spotted and photographed by me as I go about my daily business here in Moscow where I am based.

To begin with, three GAZ-21 Volga cars, iconic Soviet cars. 

Truth to tell, they are not daily drivers -- I spotted them on a movie shoot in November 2014 -- the same one I photographed this Lincoln Town Cars 1st Gen.

Members of the public are watching movie people shooting a movie, and I am shooting period cars.

Volga GAZ-21, Third Series.

The Volga Third Series fascia ... quite different from that of the Second Series, see below. 

Whalebone grille, no deer hood ornament, the bumper without guards ("fangless" as it is known in Russia) whose bottom is painted the color of the body.

Diecast: Lada 2107 1:43

I do not specifically collect diecast car models, yet have some.

The most favorite is my diecast Lada 2107 -- the Lada 2107 happens to be one of my all time favorite cars as it was one of the two cars I learned to drive in and the first car that I drove myself. 

Lada 2107 is the deluxe version of the Lada 2105 itself an upgrade on the Lada 2101 based on the Fiat 124.

Even though it may be hard to believe from these first two pictures, this diecast model is what a proper diecast model should be...Front view.

I mean, of course, there are better and more detailed diecast models around, including those of Lada cars, but they tend to be bigger in scale. 

As regards, 1:43 diecasts, I have yet to see a better detailed and more functional (i.e. opening doors, hood, trunk) models...Side view. 

Back view.

3/4

And this is why it is an example to most other 1:43 (or smaller) diecast models -- because everything opens! The hood opens...

And you can have a look at a pretty detailed motor.

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

Russian Cars -- Auto Industry of the USSR Exhibition 2014

In August we visited the VDNKh, a permanent expo and entertainment facility here in north of Moscow where I am based, as I mentioned in this post -- Pictures from an Exhibition.

I also mentioned there that the Space Pavilion there was at the time hosting a car exhibition -- Auto Industry of the USSR. I made some pictures, and here they are.

Entering the exhibition.

Oldies on the ground floor in the middle, such as this GAZ AA truck.

GAZ GL-1, a sports car.

Truth to tell, I am a bit wary of these examples. Obviously, they were heavily restored but the line between restoration and replication is a bit blurred here.

GAZ GL-1

GAZ M-415 pickup.

This is more after my taste -- GAZ M 20 V Pobeda.

ZiM GAZ-12.

Three Chaikas. the first one is a very interesting example.

It is a RAO (RAF) GAZ 13 S Chaika -- a Chaika customized by Riga Auto Plant (RAF). 

Served as an ambulance car for senior party and government officials. One was gifted to Fidel Castro, I think.