196x "Brezhnev-mobilis" Leonid Breznev's limousine left side angled.jpg

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

-- Yogi Berra

On this particular day of this month, in the Year Of The Golden Pig,
§qu@re Wheels is stating:


Looks suspiciously like a Mercord, a Fordcury, or something in-between.

On 9-Aug-2007, =?iso-8859-1?q?=A7qu=40re_Wheels?=
> wrote:

> Looks suspiciously like a Mercord, a Fordcury, or something in-between.

I think the Zil was inspired by, or directly taken from, '50s Packards.

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Z~

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In article <EWRui.46895$rX4.12555@pd7urf2no>,
§qu@re Wheels > wrote:

> On this particular day of this month, in the Year Of The Golden Pig,
> §qu@re Wheels is stating:
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> Looks suspiciously like a Mercord, a Fordcury, or something in-between.

55 Plymouth headlights and Cadillac grille/chrome.

Actually it looks like a derivative of a 55 or 56 Packard. Russian limos
from the 40s through to the 50s all were Packard copies. It was rumored that
during WWII, FDR had the tooling and body dies for the 42 Senior Series
Packards shipped off to Stalin because he admired Packards.


"§qu@re Wheels" > wrote in message
news:EWRui.46895$rX4.12555@pd7urf2no...
> On this particular day of this month, in the Year Of The Golden Pig,
> §qu@re Wheels is stating:
>
>
> Looks suspiciously like a Mercord, a Fordcury, or something in-between.
>
>
>
>
>
>

"Zinc" > wrote in message
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>
> On 9-Aug-2007, =?iso-8859-1?q?=A7qu=40re_Wheels?=
> > wrote:
>
> > Looks suspiciously like a Mercord, a Fordcury, or something in-between.
>
> I think the Zil was inspired by, or directly taken from, '50s Packards.
>
> --
> Z~
>
That was my thought as well--1956 Packard without the Ox Yoke.

Peter

Too bad there's a little piece of chrome missing from the left side
moulding. I have a 1:43 scale model of this car and coincidentally it also
has a section of chrome missing from one side. Maybe that's how they came
from the factory after all.

Max

""§qu@re Wheels""
<mostly_harmless@pangalactic_vector_exchange_trans ponder31_universe.net>
wrote in message news:8TRui.44830$_d2.34824@pd7urf3no...
>
> --
> When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
>
> -- Yogi Berra
>
>

On this particular day of this month, in the Year Of The Golden Pig,
MagisterMax did state:

> Too bad there's a little piece of chrome missing from the left side
> moulding. I have a 1:43 scale model of this car and coincidentally it also
> has a section of chrome missing from one side. Maybe that's how they came
> from the factory after all.
>
> Max

I'd say an error like that would be Khrushchal to sales.

I would say that, but nobody else would stoop to those depths of bad
humour.....!


SW


>
> ""§qu@re Wheels""
> <mostly_harmless@pangalactic_vector_exchange_trans ponder31_universe.net>
> wrote in message news:8TRui.44830$_d2.34824@pd7urf3no...
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>> --
>> When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
>>
>> -- Yogi Berra