Test Drive Gas 21 Volga 1956 - 1970 Sedan
Reflection
It was 1964. I still did not live. I was not even in the plans. Then why did you suddenly take 1964 and these two cars? Yes, just summer rain passed, a normal summer rain, and the idea arose to put two cars nearby, sit near the grass, smoke. And also throw out a pager to all traps. Because there were no pagers then ... 
I will say right away - I don't know anything with an even account about the second car. Compared with the first, of course. And sitting on a hill, I do not want to know anything about the slope of the pile and the stroke of the piston. In 1964, a normal light film was released on the screens. I step in Moscow. Normally - the most fashionable word 60s. For complete chic, it was necessary to use in combination: normally, an old man. This is Hemingway. Black and white portrait of Ham in a rough sweater in almost every student room in a hostel.
Hemingway was close as a man who once visited Cuba. The distant cube was close to the bugger sunset and a team of revolutionary-bearded, who challenged the world imperialism. It was implicated that the same team challenged the hardware-cabinet style of the Soviet leadership with their permanent protective jackets.
The beginning of deliveries to us the famous Havana cigars and Roma. Copying the metropolitan intelligentsia inhaled the aroma of the exotic Soviet dominion, happily realizing that she finally appeared. Viva Cuba! sounded more often and sincere than the glory of the CPSU!. None of the Eastern European colonies of the Soviet Union from nowheree will notice such people's love.
The Egyptian president of Nasser is awarded the Order of Lenin and the Medal of the Golden Star. Many front-line people found it an insult. Young Vladimir Vysotsky then wrote: Lost True faith.
Hurt me for our USSR.
Telect the Order of the Shooter, does not suit the Order of Nasser.
Style. The word is in principle a new one. The post-war era of the Marino-Roshchinsky uniform from the tractations of army uniforms is replaced by a decade of clear geometric proportions in fashion. Pants - Duffers, shoes - boats, skirts - mini, narrowed waist, underlined ass, Bulldog boots, bulky, like a car victory, and incumbent nylon shirts. Young, allowing the extreme forms of tininess of trousers and minimalism skirts are called styles. This label is attached to the Komsomol and collections of labor collectives to everyone who is the reason for Applub considers an imported seal.
The first portraits of the Beatles are not yet nursed icons, but already the material treasure of advanced youth. One photo, rebuilt from the Western magazine, cost from 3 to 5 re. For young men, ready to lay out the amount equivalent to two bottles of vodka, for the Cheback imprint, the drummer is not a miner-Stakhanovets and not an exterior assembly, but the Ringo Starr. And the phrase is the drummer of communist labor - Abrakadabra, reflecting the principle of peaceful coexistence of two political systems. Bitles penetrate mainly through the ether enemy stations. Rigond radio and WEF radio colleagues are becoming the estimation of the dreams of high school students, students and engineers. Futurist Andrei Voznesensky represents a collection of poems antimira. In nature on the estimate there is no point - we will be immortal and that's for sure! In the same year, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union is posthumously, Richard Zorga. 20 years after execution, the name of our person in Tokyo becomes publicity.
The Velvet season. Nikita Sergeevich rides to relax in the Crimea. He will return to the Kremlin in October and a completely different person - a personal pensioner of the union meaning. Excessively lively Khrushchev will change the Brezhnev - subsequently overly ordinous. But none of the Soviet leaders loved so cars like L. I.
1964. Maybe it was the last year when our Volga could be put with Mercedes on one board. Actually, therefore, today these two cars in one frame - not as two popular models of the Berlin wall, namely as classmates. Volga was still called, juice. The unofficially recognized as the best car of Europe in 1958, the Volga under six years has undergone two restyings and a serious modification of the chassis.
Chassis could still compete with world counterparts, and above all in its strength. The last restyling of 1962 transformed the car from a fanged armor of the 50s to the rapid battleship, one of the most beautiful middle-class machines in the 60s. The most beautiful, also unofficially, is considered a completely frozen Citroen DS. In fairness It is worth saying that Citroen was frozen over 2 years before the appearance of the Volga and for 6 to Mercedes W110. But GAZ-21 is the same case when an elegant car, like a woman, always lags behind the fashion one step. Volga is the main machine of the country as the river. The most comfortable and speed of theoretically available. The only domestic car of the middle class, Volga faithfully served as partings and cosmonauts, Georgians and taxi drivers (in the first three categories of citizens, most often there was a black Volga - a special color, a special car), doctors, families of ladies and veterans (from the first horsecultum ).
GAZ-21L - standard equipment. Color is a little, without chrome plumage. It is this modification in a year that will become the main character of the film. Beware of the car and in the pace of the Waltz, it is beautifully popping out of the Garage of Fanswist Semicellov to the Soviet-Baltic Shepherry. The state price of ELYLY at the time - 5,500 rubles. Delicate adhered to state rates. The uniqueness of the machine is in two main things: lightning stroke on the rear doors and the front sofa. The Volga sofa is convenient in every sense - and in the sense of sitting, and in the sense of lying, not to mention the sex. In 1965, another modification of twenty-first follows: 10 horses will be added to the engine power and cycling in the index. That's all over.
Mercedes-Benz. Model 200 in the 110th body was produced since 1961. The utilitarian thing is a family burgher car bought for DM11.000 without an appointment when it became indecent to ride on VW or Ford. The main roles did not put forward. Special design, not counting the branded lattice and the stars on the hood, was not marked. The smallest Mercedes from those produced in 1964. Americanized (how much it was possible) keels on the rear wings and a steering wheel switch. After 33 years, it looks like a small prince, transmitting sincere charm of the era, and for some reason smells like light French spirits ... Ivan V. Paderin
A source: Magog Motor [№8 / 1997]
