Show us yer Soviet beauties
Discussion
I keep on seeing some older cars from Eastern Bloc manufacturers and I think some of them are quite cool so I though I'd share a few pictures of them. I don't know the different makes so if you know who made them please share.
Proper old school Soviet classic and in original condition
Some really interesting trucks out in the countryside and still doing a job.
This one is stunning and I guess it has been restored. No idea on the make.
Proper old school Soviet classic and in original condition
Some really interesting trucks out in the countryside and still doing a job.
This one is stunning and I guess it has been restored. No idea on the make.
Rumdoodle said:
They do like their classics in Georgia.
I'm interpreting "beauties" quite flexibly...
This is a Volga saloon emerging from the winter in western Siberia. You can see dents in the roof where people had inadvertently been walking over it before seven months' worth of snow had started to melt
This is the same model soldiering on in Kabul about ten years later
The ubiquitous UAZ vans and jeeps in Murghab, Tajikistan
the Shurabad Pass, Tajikistan
and a long way up in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan
Moskvitch 412 in Karakul, Tajikistan
and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
and an armoured ZIS 115 outside the National Museum in Kabul (with two Rolls-Royces in front of it)
Smashing photo's!!I'm interpreting "beauties" quite flexibly...
This is a Volga saloon emerging from the winter in western Siberia. You can see dents in the roof where people had inadvertently been walking over it before seven months' worth of snow had started to melt
This is the same model soldiering on in Kabul about ten years later
The ubiquitous UAZ vans and jeeps in Murghab, Tajikistan
the Shurabad Pass, Tajikistan
and a long way up in the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan
Moskvitch 412 in Karakul, Tajikistan
and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
and an armoured ZIS 115 outside the National Museum in Kabul (with two Rolls-Royces in front of it)
You've got to love those old UAZ vans and I still see lots of them about. I see loads of old interesting stuff in Armenia but Lada's are by far the most regularly seen car there. I think most Soviet cars were built so that they could be repaired easily and by anyone competent, quality control however.....
On a recent trip out into the mountains I saw some fabulous Soviet era trucks, many of them still earning their owners a few dollars. My lovely co driver thinks I'm a bit weird when I get excited to see some old beaten up truck from her past 
A rather robust looking thing with a beautiful street dog snoozing in her shadow.
On my return to the city I noticed a couple of lovely Soviet era cars....
And a rather curious looking Jag - I assume this is a franken-Jag as it just doesn't look right......
A rather robust looking thing with a beautiful street dog snoozing in her shadow.
On my return to the city I noticed a couple of lovely Soviet era cars....
And a rather curious looking Jag - I assume this is a franken-Jag as it just doesn't look right......
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