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Let’s Really Figure Out What That ‘Put It In H’ Car From The Simpsons Could Be

Cars

10 months ago

Let’s Really Figure Out What That ‘Put It In H’ Car From The Simpsons Could Be

Jason Torchinsky

How A Really Obscure Soviet Race Car Ends Up On A California Wine Bottle

Cars

1 year ago

How A Really Obscure Soviet Race Car Ends Up On A California Wine Bottle

Jason Torchinsky

Cars

1 year ago

Chernobyl’s Cars Paint A Fascinating And Grim Picture Of Soviet Life

Jason Torchinsky

At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few actually good seasons of Game of Thrones and other worshipped favourites is a bleakly terrifying mini-series about a nuclear disaster that happened 33 years ago in a country that no longer…

If You Want To Buy A Car Factory, Ukrainian Automaker ZAZ Is Selling One

Online

2 years ago

If You Want To Buy A Car Factory, Ukrainian Automaker ZAZ Is Selling One

Jason Torchinsky

Collecting The Bizarre Homemade Cars Of Russia’s Soviet Past

Online

2 years ago

Collecting The Bizarre Homemade Cars Of Russia’s Soviet Past

Misha Lanin

For most Soviet citizens, buying a new car was financially impossible. To put things in perspective, Alexander Petrovych (who built one of the cars you’ll see here) made a monthly salary of 140 rubles in the 1970s. At the time, a new Lada cost 6,030 rubles. So, if Alexander really…

soviet cars

Let’s Really Figure Out What That ‘Put It In H’ Car From The Simpsons Could Be

How A Really Obscure Soviet Race Car Ends Up On A California Wine Bottle

Chernobyl’s Cars Paint A Fascinating And Grim Picture Of Soviet Life

If You Want To Buy A Car Factory, Ukrainian Automaker ZAZ Is Selling One

Collecting The Bizarre Homemade Cars Of Russia’s Soviet Past

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