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Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« on: June 20, 2022, 03:36:25 PM »
Good night everyone )
I now work with AIs and tried to make a bit better some of my old photos from Museum taken with simple pocket soapbox. And then thought it can be interesting for our community.
So now i will post some soviet cars here, enjoy )

1. Replica of racing Moskvitch-407 Coupe.
2. Rallye Moskvitch-412s.
3. Moskvitch GD-1, never raced 1.5 liter V8 engine for Formula-1.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2022, 03:44:19 PM »
1. Replica of ~1940 racing GAZ-GL1, facrtory racer based on production saloon GAZ-11-73, whitch itself is modified M1 - improved licensed copy of Ford, equipped with soviet version of Dodge D5 engine. Here forced to 100HP. Original GL1 made soviet land speed record, a bit over 160 km/h.
2. GAZ model A. First soviet mass produced passenger car, licensed copy of Ford model A.
3. Early GAZ-M20 'Pobeda', first soviet postwar car.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2022, 03:46:49 PM »
1. GAZ-21 'Volga' series 2.
2. GAZ-21 'Volga' Series 1, rarest of all.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2022, 03:50:35 PM »
GAZ-M12 'ZIM'. Unibody construction based on stretched 'Pobeda' with the same very popular in Sovet Union copy of Dodge D5 engine. Also Pobeda's engine is the same  cutted off to 4 cylinders and 2.1 liter.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2022, 03:53:28 PM »
GAZ-24-95.
'Volga' with modified 4x4 UAZ drivetrain. Said it was developed as a hunting car for Leonid Brezhnev, aroud 5 cars were built.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2022, 03:57:20 PM »
Now some big cars.
1. ZIS-101A, improved ZIS-101 (see later).
2. ZIS-110 in taxi livery. Heavily based in 1940s Packard-180. They were really used in long-range taxi services.
3. ZIS-110B convertible.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2022, 03:58:33 PM »
ZIL-111. Used only for government purposes.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2022, 04:01:34 PM »
ZIL-114. Next generation of ZILs government limousines.
4th foto is here to show difference between original and AI-enchanced photo.
All these were taken with Canon PowerShot A460, august 2013.
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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2022, 04:09:59 PM »
Next one - ZIL-115. In production was renamed to 4104-series according to new industry standard.
41072 'Scorpion' - escort guard version, equipped with handrails, government radio and so on.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2022, 04:13:27 PM »
SMZ S-1L and SMZ S-3L, microcars for disabled people.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2022, 04:18:31 PM »
1980 'Pangolina' - one of the most famous soviet self-made car. Built by Alexander Kulygin.
Now (2013 i mean) in poor condition, heavily modified and simplified. As far as i know it's now under restoration.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2022, 04:21:55 PM »
Moskvitch-2142 'Ivan Kalita' - stretched saloon based on 2141, made just right before plant's death. There were a lot of, ghm, weird prototypes then.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2022, 04:27:45 PM »
Like these 'Duett' coupes.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2022, 04:29:10 PM »
One more ZIL-114 in poor condition.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2022, 04:33:54 PM »
And one more poor ZIS-101A.
That's all for now, some more to come.
Hope that was interesting. You always may ask for more details of any car )))
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2022, 04:44:20 PM »
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2022, 04:50:49 PM »
Sorry for poor quality.
There's a chance for me to visit it again in august, with new camera and optics.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #17 on: June 20, 2022, 05:17:35 PM »
One more. Homemade van based on Volga-21.
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2022, 01:29:35 AM »
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
https://rareandunique.media - Rare&Unique Vehicles magazine
http://magyarjarmu.hu - detailed Hungarian motoring history (Hungarian language)
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2022, 03:26:35 PM »
are there some derivated from Lada models (apart the Pangolina)?
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2022, 05:59:14 AM »
are there some derivated from Lada models (apart the Pangolina)?
No. As far as I remember, there were no Ladas at all.
But an exposition of rescued an AZLK/Moskvich museum.
Some more protoypes. Sorry, the cars were too close to each other and I had just a simple pocket camera then.
Still hope to visit it again in august )
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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2022, 01:31:17 PM »
Resized for better visibility.  :)

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Re: Moscow automobile museum. Some old photos.
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2022, 04:02:11 PM »
Thank for sharing