Re: Chaika/GAZ... better looking than Packard? Horrors!
Posted by Guscha On 2011/1/25 16:41:31
Let's start with the issue of Russian selling efforts.
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The sales activities of Soviet motor vehicle industry haven't been confined to Western Europe. But to call Chaika's a mentionable sales hit would be blue-sky propaganda. At the highest estimate (free valuation) I think no more than a couple of dozen were sold.
I remember a newspaper article talking about Chaika sales representatives in Finland but to my knowledge it was related to a succeeding model, the GAZ-14. The below shown advertisement was published in a Finnish local newspaper.
Would love to know details of price policy, spare parts supply and their network of repair shops ...
Thanks for the link to a Finnish Chaika. That car is waiting in a secluded nook of the world, forlorn in silence.
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...Were Tshaikas sold to foreigners?...
The sales activities of Soviet motor vehicle industry haven't been confined to Western Europe. But to call Chaika's a mentionable sales hit would be blue-sky propaganda. At the highest estimate (free valuation) I think no more than a couple of dozen were sold.
I remember a newspaper article talking about Chaika sales representatives in Finland but to my knowledge it was related to a succeeding model, the GAZ-14. The below shown advertisement was published in a Finnish local newspaper.
Would love to know details of price policy, spare parts supply and their network of repair shops ...
Thanks for the link to a Finnish Chaika. That car is waiting in a secluded nook of the world, forlorn in silence.
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