A#358 Solved: 1969 V. Sokolov's Virazh-2

[Arunas]

Dnepr?

Not this.

[mymokke]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

[Arunas]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

I don't have such information since what I have is very very limited. However, I'd like to discuss.

[Ray B.]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

It's the first thing I thought of when I saw this puzzle but I hadn't checked.
It's amazingly close, and surely the same builder. Whether it's the same car and he remodeled it somehow, whether he's obsessed by this design...
Loewy doesn't give any detail in the book, though.

[Arunas]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

It's the first thing I thought of when I saw this puzzle but I hadn't checked.
It's amazingly close, and surely the same builder. Whether it's the same car and he remodeled it somehow, whether he's obsessed by this design...
Loewy doesn't give any detail in the book, though.

OH MY!!      Amazing! See the differences between the car in the puzzle and in your picture? This can be Virage-1, but I have never heard, read or seen any pictures of it. But the years makes me tthink it is something else probably (and most likely) by the same builder.

[mymokke]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

It's the first thing I thought of when I saw this puzzle but I hadn't checked.
It's amazingly close, and surely the same builder. Whether it's the same car and he remodeled it somehow, whether he's obsessed by this design...
Loewy doesn't give any detail in the book, though.

OH MY!!      Amazing! See the differences between the car in the puzzle and in your picture? This can be Virage-1, but I have never heard, read or seen any pictures of it. But the years makes me tthink it is something else probably (and most likely) by the same builder.

After looking at both pictures side by side, it looks like the puzzle car is a newer build. there is a difference in the door cuts and the roof line. The front end is lighter as well giving the car a more modern profile. Still it looks to be built by the same hand.

[Paul Jaray]

 

[Allemano]

wouldn't be fair to send this to the solveds...

[Oguerrerob]

Virazh-2 (Вираж-2) Cyclecar  from USSR 1969 by V. Sokolov (В. Соколов). Engines Panonia

[Otto Puzzell]

Delicious irony. 

[Arunas]

Virazh-2 (Вираж-2) Cyclecar  from USSR 1969 by V. Sokolov (В. Соколов). Engines Panonia

Finally, I can move it Solved section. Two points for you.

[Paul Jaray]

I believe this builder also built a motorcycle based copy/tribute of the AVANTI in the early sixties ........ A picture is shown in the Lowey industrial design book I have a home.

It's the first thing I thought of when I saw this puzzle but I hadn't checked.
It's amazingly close, and surely the same builder. Whether it's the same car and he remodeled it somehow, whether he's obsessed by this design...
Loewy doesn't give any detail in the book, though.

I found the same pic in a '73 magazine where is written that Raymond Loewy himself took it on a trip to Moscow that May (1973), where He saw this scratch-built Avanti replicar. It was built by a joung Soviet fellow out of 2 motorcycles coupled in parallel with pieces of junk.

[faksta]

Probably not so easy, as if these two motorcycles were simply coupled side-by-side, they should have been a bit too long, but they surely weren't.