Oldtimer Gallery: “Victory Motors” and movie heroes

This year held in 29-once in Sokolniki exhibition of vintage cars, military equipment and Antiques devoted to the 75-th anniversary of victory in the great Patriotic war.

This time it is difficult to allocate all of the exhibits a “showstopper” as it was, say, when Eugene Shamanic workshop presented to the dear public the legendary tractor “stalinets” with great difficulty extracted out of the swamp and carefully restored. The current exhibition paid tribute and military vehicles, and movie cars, and the unique domestic developments, and not follow a series, and the front car. Note the most memorable.

In the center of the main hall, two handsome, two first jeep, the forerunner of the famous “jeep” – the Bantam BRC-60 Bantam BRC-40, supplied to the USSR under lend-lease. “The sixties” was created for an unreal 49 days – such was the condition of the U.S. government, announced a competition in 1940. “Forties” was released 2 605 units, only 50 of them were in the version of 4WS (all wheels driven) and only 2 copies have survived to the present day.

Unique pre-war GAZ-42, built on the chassis of the lorry, the sole surviving car with gas generator, worked… on the wood.

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In 1973, long before the Fields were created Moskvich 415-S – experimental four-wheel-drive passenger car, which was destined to remain a prototype. The copy presented at the exhibition, was accidentally discovered a few years ago and carefully restored workshop “Simonov motors”.

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“Mercedes shtirlitsa”, he – Mercedes-Benz 230 W143 in the back, was released in 1939. It’s not “the same” but exactly the same car, which went to the Chief scout of all time – Max Otto von Stirlitz, who is also the Colonel Isayev.

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In continuation of kinoteka truck GAZ-AA Bread and butter. The one instance where a gang of “Black cat” in the film “the meeting Place cannot be changed” went to “business”.

Another famous movie character, not inferior to the popularity rode on him, Fantomas, – Citroen DS 23 Pallas at the time, made a splash at the Paris exhibition in 1955. By the end of the dealership on this car was left unprecedented number of applications – more than 12,000.

Finally, the triumph of this “Oldtimer” is a collection of seven cars in front of Garage of Special function, which remember of Marshal Zhukov, Ministers Grechko and Ustinov and Yury Gagarin. In particular, the exhibition presents the ZIL-111B 14 April 1961 solemnly drove Yuri from Vnukovo airport to the Kremlin for a meeting with Khrushchev.