Russian Zil Cars

They built some nice looking cars.I wouldn't mind if I own a Zis.101a
Especially with a bright red color.
Spotey looking car.
www.cars-directory.net/gallery/zil
cuhulin

On 2009-02-27, > wrote:
> They built some nice looking cars.I wouldn't mind if I own a Zis.101a
> Especially with a bright red color.
> Spotey looking car.
> www.cars-directory.net/gallery/zil

zil passenger cars were for high ranking party members as I recall.

We might start seeing something similar once GM is nationalized

In article >,
> wrote:
>They built some nice looking cars.I wouldn't mind if I own a Zis.101a
>Especially with a bright red color.
>Spotey looking car.
>www.cars-directory.net/gallery/zil

They are still around. Much like Marmon, though, they got out of the
car business years ago and now only make large trucks.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

http://www.automotomuseum.vl.ru/eng/...y/auto/zis.101

I read an article somewhere in that website which says some of those ZIS
car bodies were bought from Buick.

About 38 years ago, I read an article in one of my many car books I have
here which says David Dunbar Buick invented a way to bind porcelain to
wrought iron.
cuhulin

> wrote:
>http://www.automotomuseum.vl.ru/eng/...y/auto/zis.101
>
>I read an article somewhere in that website which says some of those ZIS
>car bodies were bought from Buick.

I think the original ZIS tooling came from Hudson.... In the lend-lease
era, Hudson sent the Russians all the tooling for a recently obsolete
model, and the early ZIS models were unmodified Hudsons.
--scott

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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."