morning oppo

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 03/30/2020 at 18:19 • Filed to: morning oppo, Zil

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Zil (Russia)

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/30/2020 at 18:29

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PyramidHat > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/30/2020 at 18:35

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That’s a 10 Comrade trunk, if I ever saw one...

pip bip - choose Corrour > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 03/30/2020 at 18:48

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GIB

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/30/2020 at 20:23

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You know when you see a car and there’s no real reason you should know what it is, but you do?

This was one of those times. I just thought “Zil”. I couldn’t tell you what a Zil looks like, but apparently I know enough. Was this the one that was in Top Gear that one time? I suspect not. But I knew it.

The time spent moping around stuff like Oppo, it does something to you. Absorbs you some knowledge

ranwhenparked > Nauraushaun 03/30/2020 at 21:31

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I think Top Gear had a Chaika, one level down from a ZiL. ZiLs were only for members of the Presidium and very high ranking military officers, all owned by the government, and never sold to the public in the Soviet era , even second hand. Production was something like 12-18 a year, tops.

Chaikas were a little more common, with about 200-250 made a year, and  could be assigned to managers of large industrial groups, senior m embers of the Supreme Soviet, famous actors and musicians, head of large research institutes, etc., and were typically sold off as used cars when they were retired.

Nauraushaun > ranwhenparked 03/30/2020 at 22:12

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That production is very low . Pretty cool car, proportions and sizings unlike anything the West has ever seen, even when you consider Rolls etc.
Guess it’s a bit different when it’s not really meant to be cool, doesn’t really need to fit in a parking space, etc.

ranwhenparked > Nauraushaun 03/30/2020 at 22:13

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Nope, ZiLs were literally  in a class totally of their own, completely outside the Soviet Union’s displacement and size class regulations for passenger cars.