wanna see some old pedal cars .........from russia?

[Joel Torres]

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1130

[sp15cspecial]

Wonder if thease cars drove like real Russian cars

[oldmopar]

Interesting link

[BobT-47P15]

That one with the bullet in the middle of the front sure resembles a

Studebaker.

[Robin (UK)]

Really interesting. Thanks for posting.

Surfed around the website and found this link to pictures of Russian vehicles in yards. There are some great looking cars here:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=311

[pflaming]

What impressed me about the Russian pedal cars and actual cars was that these all were built under the Communist political system. It is obvious that some citizens of Russian lived quite well. I guess I thought the only things they (Russia)built were tanks, jeeps, and war machines. Obviously, not so! Yet still thankful to have lived in a non-communist country.

[greg g]

Russia is a monement to reverse egineering, or copying other peoples stuff. Did you ever see their clone of the b29? Apparetly 3 were forced to land in Vladivostock, and were shanghied along with their crews. They deconstructed them and started building their own version, the TU- 4.

The jet engine in the early MIG's were direct copies of a borrowed British jet engine.

[BobT-47P15]

Some of those cars look a lot like American vehicles.

May or may not be.

[pflaming]

On the second set of pics there was one that looked like a 48 =/- Buick, especially the hood lines. If the engineering has left the country and all that is left are draftsmen, the reverse engineering is quite efficient. I've seen a bit of that in the packaging machinery business and elsewhere. But that aside I was still amazed at the variety of car styles in late '50's.

Heard an old Russian joke years ago. When a govt agent was asked about foreign service on their automobiles, he replied, "When we leave Russia we go with tanks not cars!"

[vintageozarks]

Great pics