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Hola chicos! 

I've just got back from holiday, so to celebrate being able to upload photos from a mobile, let's have a first batch of a spots. Well, I say spots, I was in Cuba so 90% of stuff that's out there you'd take a photo of if you saw it driving down the High Street in Wolverhampton, this is just scratching the surface really. It's mostly a mix of 50s stuff (and not just yanks, albeit nearly all of it cobbled together from wob and Moskvich bits), 70s and 80s Soviets and 90s euro-chod. Stuff I saw but didn't manage to get photos of included a Traction Avant, a few Edsels, a Skoda Felicia convertible (the 50s one), a Hillman Husky, assorted Consuls and Victor's, oh and a Seat Ronda.... 

First up then, first day spots from Havana. I think the Taunus might be made mostly from tippex. Apologies for the slightly wonky framing on some, a lot of these were taken while holding a recalcitrant toddler. 

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1 hour ago, Sudsprint said:

Love the Fuego/30 hybrid

 

1 hour ago, catsinthewelder said:

A Moskvich Aleko

Interesting story - the Aleko was Moskvitch's own work but... to cut a long story short - they were developing a rear wheel drive car when the Minister of Transport declared it should be front wheel drive and worse it should use the Chrysler Alpine body which he liked the look of. The engineers at Moskvitch were miffed at being told to copy an existing design, but fortunately an Alpine shell wouldn't fit over the new front wheel drive floor pan they had designed. So they had to design the new body themselves, but to save themselves it looks remarkably like an Alpine, the Ministers favourite...

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Alpine in black, Aleko in red.

 

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...and here's your last lot. The yellow thing was our taxi back to the airport, any ideas? Nine seats, and the only badge was the Chevrolet one on a period correct looking steering wheel. 

The big Chevrolet is a bus. It was uncomfortable. It also appears you can still get Mk3 Transits in China, which I guess will please some people here.

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