CAR ?

[S&W ucla]

Curiosity, What is make, model, and year of this critter? 50's Russian? Thanks

 

[pharmer]

Nameplate says Chaika, good luck on the year. Russkies didn't worry much about "new" styles every year. Most of 'em could never afford a car under Soviet rules. Joe

 

[mtgianni]

Is the setting Cuba?

 

[S&W ucla]

St. Petersburg. I was colluding with the Rooskies, lol. Thanks pharmer, I was trying to use yanka as name and found no info. With model name "Chaika" (meaning "Gull") I found it was made by GAZ. 1959-1981 with same body style, only 3,179 made. Link to more info.

About GAZ-13 "Chaika": car specifications and history

One more pic.

 

[Ματθιας]

It's a GAZ-13 "Chaika". It's the sort of the soviet version of the Packard - a Packard-ski - their version of a luxury car.

 

[TX-Dennis]

It's kind of purty.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

The name that popped into my mind was the Ford Edsel, the car that cost Ford Motor Company millions of dollars in lost revenue.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Derrils]

I did not know that they made those like that up until 1978, those GAZ Chaikas and the older ZIS/ZIL cars look a lot like a 1955-56 Packards, rumor has it that they bought the dies and tooling from Studebaker Packard after Packard shut down. 

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[Stevens]

To me it looks kinda like a cross between a 55 Chevy and 57 Ford.
Steve W

 

[les.b]

The license plate code (78) says that the car is registered in St Petersburg, or at the time maybe still Leningrad.

Just a hangover from my time in Russia with their police.

Best Regards, Les

 

[DWalt]

My granddaughter just returned from a week in St. Petersburg. I should have asked her to take pictures of the cars there.

 

[GaryS]

I think it's the car that Johnny Cash built.

 

[Muley Gil]

The Russkies had one car that was based on the early '50s Buick. I can't remember the name.

 

[rwsmith]

Interesting......

It's a Snazzmobile. Parades, presentations to impress officials of other countries. Honestly, I like it. We were probably propagandized into seeing their crummy looking cars.

 

[GaryS]

"Buickski."

The Russkies had one car that was based on the early '50s Buick. I can't remember the name.

 

[dswancutt]

I did not know that they made those like that up until 1978, those GAZ Chaikas and the older ZIS/ZIL cars look a lot like a 1955-56 Packards, rumor has it that they bought the dies and tooling from Studebaker Packard after Packard shut down. 

Actually the story goes that they bought the tooling for the prewar Packards, which is why Packard only had cars based on the prewar Clippers after the war. It has never been confirmed. The car in the picture is the car that followed.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I can imagine a Soviet-era antique car show; everyone with a car shows up, then walk around looking at everyone else's cars. Such events would never take very long because there were maybe two privately owned cars within a hundred miles of each other.

 

[Watchdog]

To me it looks kinda like a cross between a 55 Chevy and 57 Ford.
Steve W

I thought the exact same thing. And maybe with a hint of '55 Ford.

 

[jag312]

Leonid Brezhnev's son was reported to have owned a Ferrari during the late 60's, early 70's. When your father runs the show, there are privileges that are not available to the common man.

In the early 70's, someone was seen driving an Alfa Romeo 8C2900B in Moscow. For anyone who doesn't know what an Alfa Romeo 8C2900B is, it is a high performance sports car that was also used for racing in the late 1930s, and they were built for Alfa Romeo by Enzo Ferrari. Phil Hill was even racing a 1938 8C2900B in California in the early 1950s.