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Thanks Guscha, I recall the pre-war Opel was somehow associated, not clear whether the tooling was a spoil of war or merely influenced the design engineering.

Steve

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In this case even both is true. Uncle Joe's engineers used single patterns to measure and recreate components during wartimes. After the war they confiscated the complete assembly line. Below a Pobeda (front), an Opel (middle) and a Moskvitch (background) on a common test drive, next to Nizhny Novgorod (formerly known as Gorky, twinned with Philadelphia).





image source: carakoom.com

Apropos Pobeda. Please find below a snapshot of the dashboard of this Packard. Try to abstract from the linoleum and focus on speedometer and watch. Both units orginate from Pobeda. The source of the steering wheel seems to be a Russian Gaz-69.
The one ore another car enthusiast dreams about a Cuban car. Take this Packard shell from Dagestan as a parade example of a car that served in a communist country for decades. What remained isn't much more then the mortal apparel. It is in eye of the beholder which car it is.



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image # 3 - ebay; item 112689345124 and 351626914237
image # 4 - flickr.com
image # 5 - flickr.com

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