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09/16/2013 at 01:58 • Filed to: Traffic Jams

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... we had Du Hast. Anyone want to identify the car in the video? I'm at a total loss. Either way, G'night Oppo, and enjoy your music.


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! lonestranger > GhostZ
09/16/2013 at 02:19

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It helps to know that Rammstein are all from Berlin, and grew up with Soviet culture as much as anything. It's a GAZ-21 Volga .


Kinja'd!!! GhostZ > lonestranger
09/16/2013 at 02:23

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Awesome!

This is why I love Oppo. Unlike most car forums, you are guarnateed that someone out there knows what you want to know.

That's actually a pretty-high-spec car for 1955, and a seriously awesome car for its time. 200BHP out of a 5.5l V8 is about what US cars were outputting, and that was at the post-war peak!

Thanks!


Kinja'd!!! lonestranger > GhostZ
09/16/2013 at 02:35

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Glad to share the knowledge. I honestly don't know much about them, other than they are pretty handsome by Soviet standards, that there's at least one badass custom hot rod one , and that they have a neat speedo .

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Oh, and I first heard of them on Jalopnik, in this story . Flying, crime-fighting car, anyone?

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Kinja'd!!! Jaanus > GhostZ
09/16/2013 at 04:53

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Yes, the car in this video is GAZ-21, the successor of the GAZ-20 aka "Pobeda" (meaning "victory"). It had a 2.4 litre engine, that on a good day produced 70 hp.

And the design of this thing was actually "copied" from Ford Mainline.


Kinja'd!!! Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > lonestranger
09/16/2013 at 08:41

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I NEED to have one of those speedos now.


Kinja'd!!! Pandamasque > GhostZ
09/16/2013 at 15:13

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Check out the episode Jay Leno's Garage about this car (it's on YT).