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[Remspoor]

Nantes, before any protests.

[Richard_FM]

8 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Nantes, before any protests.

I can smell the Gauloises from here!

[Andrew353w]

7 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I can smell the Gauloises from here!

.......And the strong black coffee & croissants!

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[Remspoor]

12 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

I can smell the Gauloises from here!

That is better for your health than burning plastic and rubber.😉

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[martc]

This Trabby is being filled with zweitakt 'Normal' benzin (two stroke pre-mix, you could specify the ratio you wanted) in a Minol station somewhere in the DDR. When I was there on the Guzzi I had to make it clear that it was a viertakt (4 stroke) and ideally I tried to get the higher octane 'super'. Strictly speaking, as a running dog of capitalism, I should only have used 'Intertank' stations which were less common but more modern and were the only ones westerners were allowed to use. Nobody at the Minol stations cared when I rocked up, but as I say, I had to be carefull they didn't put pre-mix in it as they assumed all motorbikes were zweitakt.

[martc]

Waterloo Place, & The Duke of York Column SW1, the 1950's.

[martc]

Visitors at the 'Chemistry-70' international exhibition have a good butchers at a brand new Lada. Absolutely no idea why a car should be on display at a chemistry exhibition.

Someone has had it away with the windscreen wipers.

[martc]

[Metal Guru]

Just now, martc said:

Visitors at the 'Chemistry-70' international exhibition have a good butchers at a brand new Lada. Absolutely no idea why a car should be on display at a chemistry exhibition.

Someone has had it away with the windscreen wipers.

Probably because anyone working in the Chemical industry could only afford a Lada.

[martc]

At the Zaporozhets factory, 1960.

[martc]

Just now, Metal Guru said:

Probably because anyone working in the Chemical industry could only afford a Lada.

True, I've worked in the chemical industry all my life and at one time swanned around in a Samara (one of the early ones with the aerofoil radiator 'grille').

[martc]

GAZ-3102 & GAZ-24 at the Pravda Publishing House in Moscow.

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[martc]

That Barkas is looking a bit bashfull, what's it been up to?

[martc]

Lower East Side, Noo Yoik, 1980.

[martc]

The opening of a new road in Rostock. If the local dignatries are swanning around in a Tatra they ought to have a word with the casual attitude of the chauffer.

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[Richard_FM]

5 hours ago, martc said:

A RHD Renault 4CV would have been a rare thing even then.

[lesapandre]

9 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

A RHD Renault 4CV would have been a rare thing even then.

In the UK these were known as the Renault 750 and were  assembled here from CKD kits at Renault's Acton factory in London. 

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Early Bay Window attempt

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