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The car on the right (pictured above) is a 1:1 wax model. Indeed a model of a Lincoln Lehmann Peterson Limo or better, modeled on it. Bull's eye! The car on the left could be an Opel Diplomat A with 283 cid Chevy small bloc V8 and Powerglide or one of its German or American brothers.
I would like to start the story of that Lincoln with a juxtaposition of the Chaika GAZ-13 and its follower, the Chaika GAZ-14 (please see pic below). Attach file:  (22.72 KB)
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Re: Chaika/GAZ... better looking than Packard? Horrors!
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A leaf blower? Roger, that was not bad. But what we see is a device to pollute the car.
Hard to chew?  Take a look at the next pics, taken at a Hungarian movie set. Attach file: (45.41 KB) (47.72 KB)
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Al jesting aside, there are copies which are earlier in production than their originals. Sounds almost unbelievable but is true.
Are you ready to take a look in a Soviet design bureau? On the left hand side a Western pattern, right next an own wax model. Business as usual. Attach file: (28.48 KB)
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Funny thought, what if this bird's boss bought the head from the guy in Vernon Ct? Too funny if he did. Rusty, after reading the previous thread I had the same thought. HCGarage, call me idiot but do us the favor to upload a picture that shows the mentioned original box (and accompanying documents). I'm one of those guys that is more attracted to things when I see them on pictures.  
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Where is the source for the rumors?
Paucity of information is a necessary condition and, with view to people's weaknesses, the keen interest is a sufficient condition for many of the rumors. But there's more to it than that. Soviet propaganda! You ought to consider that communist systems stop at nothing and much less when it comes to dazzle. The following illustration from the juvenile book "The story of automobiles" (Moscow 1950) gives the Soviet constructors the appearance of being the designers of the ZIS. The caption reads as follows: "A robot eye helps the engineers of Stalin Motor Works to design the windshield, hood and driver's seat." The Packard One Eighty must be a very early copy of the ZIS. Attach file: (34.12 KB)
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What do we see here? Tanning lotion?
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A postage stamp reports on the visit of cosmonaut Gherman Titov in the German Democratic Republic, who came well escorted.
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"...All went well there, the hardest part being lifting the head off the engine, must be getting old....er..." You? Never! Mal, that could be the right moment to again mention the "c-clamp" method, which affording a firm grip and ergonomic handle even for three hands if necessary.
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Nobody knows the second ...
Who was that man, meeting President Kennedy and John Glenn in 1962?  His name was Titov, Gherman Titov, the second man to orbit the Earth, with 25 years the youngest spaceman ever (and with 26 years a heavy drinker).  Quote: He was the first person to suffer from "space sickness" (motion sickness in space) and was also the first person to sleep in space. He slept for roughly one orbit and was surprised to wake with his arms floating in the air due to the absence of normal gravity. He returned to sleep after putting his arms under a security belt, then slept 30 minutes more than predicted by the flight plan. He stated that "Once you have your arms and legs arranged properly, space sleep is fine ... I slept like a baby". [wikipedia] <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vaLLxPtmyPI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> [picture source: NBI; Neue Berliner Illustrierte, 1961, DDR (illustrated magazine)] Attach file: (29.23 KB)
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