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Dyslexic Vikings Austrian cousins go camping. Although most will be walking home to make space for the chair.

Titled 'clutch replacement, Leipzig, DDR, 1989'. In a years time he'll be junking it and replacing it with a VW. Which will have numerous niggling faults which will not be sorted by the use of two wooden blocks and a spare afternoon...

13 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Apparently IZH ones were better built, and were regarded as more robust than the original Moskvitch, certainly by those who lived way out in the Soviet sticks.

Think I’m right in saying IZH, a massive engineering factory, is/was Ukrainian? 

Phun phact - IZH also make the Kalashnikov rifle and motorbikes. I had an IZH (marketed here as a Neval) Planeta and sidecar, which was considerably better than the popular motorbike mags seemed to suggest (quelle surprise).

Like this, but maroon and with a sidecar.

IZH are based in Izhevsk (see what they did there?), which is well and truly in Russia, near the Ural mountains. IZH are now known as the 'Kalashnikov Group'.

Consett. The 'petrol' sign in the background was the Atkinson & Browell garage - owned by Rowan Atkinson’s family.

Sad face.

MacDougal Street between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village Manhattan, 1972.

I've always thought that US fire engines look a bit old fashioned, this one even has a bell!