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New Old Car Remake: Pobeda

We had here already an article about Volga M6 - a new car made out of two - old Russian Volga 21 and ultra new BMW M6 cabrio. This kind of art seems to be popular in modern Russia so this is another photo

story on the topic. This car was made out of old "Pobeda" car, the predecessor of Volga 21. It was totaly rebuilt and see how it looks like now. This how the car looked before.

Pimp Up Your Tank

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This vehicle was made from Russian “BRDM”, if to translate literally it is “Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle”, armored scout car made in Russia. There were plenty of such in Arabic countries like Iraq or Iran or Syria also. But this is not a regular military vehicle. It was bought by a Moscow entrepreneur and was pimped up heavily. First of all it is an amphibian vehicle – it can both move by roads and swim by rivers or lakes. It is powered with V8 5.5 diesel engine to carry its multi ton body across the Russian roads. It has four general wheels but there are four more, hidden under its bottom, if somebody comes to a road like this he

can push a button and use four additional wheels to make his road. It has of course a multi speaker sound system, GPS navigation, TV, DVD and a periscope to see clearly what’s going on when you are swimming across the nearest lake. Also there is a sonar mounted with which the car owner can monitor the water under his so to say car. Night vision system is there too. The car is fully registred in road inspection so the owner can drive across the normal roads, and then go to the lake for some fishing or water skiing, after that at night he can come to Moscow casino without visiting home.

Where is Buran Now?

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Some people asked, what happened to the Buran afterwards? Here is a photo session from Ukrainian site about what is now with

Buran. It is standing in the lonely place at Baikonur, not covered with any sort of hangar or anything.

Why Tow a Boat If You Can Drive It On Highway?

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When you go fishing, why should you tow a boat if you can drive it right on the highway? Here is an example of Russian boat that can move

across the highways as a regular car. It even has plates and officially registered as a on-ground transportation mean.

Russian Offroad Trucks

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Russian military men know that the country has bad roads. So they create special Russian army trucks that can pass through places where there are almost no roads at all.

How about this one, this is Russian ZIL truck with 8 x 8 full time drive for all its 16 wheels! Look what sound it makes while cruising across the field:

Russian helicopter facing with a hole from a machine gun bullet

The Hole From a Bullet

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This is the photo from the Russian army museum. One can see here a big hole in what was once a helicopter facing part. This hole was

made by a machine gun bullet that can be seen inside the hole. The hole itself tens times bigger than a bullet.

Postal Trick

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Many USA ecommerce shops don’t send their goods to Russia or to the countries of the Ex-USSR. Some shops send but delivery costs differ greatly from the homeland ones, they are usually much bigger. So what did some Russians invented? They got a way to fool the delivery. It’s no secret that many bigger shops use electronic systems processing orders. So in order to see if this address is in USA or Canada it uses ZIP code, state or province name and words “USA” or “CANADA”. So what was possible to do is to put totally Russian address in the order delivery form,

like: Moscow, Lenin St. 20, Russia in the address fields, usually there is a plenty of space to enter long things like this, and in the field country they put Canada in the field ZIP code – Canadian zip code. What happens next? The parcel travels to Canada, to the area to which the specified ZIP code belongs and there postal workers just see it’s not a Canadian address but Russian. They consider it to be some sort of mistake and forward it further, to Russia. Here is a sample parcel that a guy in Russia got this way:

Russian Hummer

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There was not only a Space Shuttle cloned in Russia, now meet Soviet Hummer, another strange thing Made in Russia. It is equipped with American Cummins B-180 engine, with 5.9 volume, with this one resembling Hummer even more. Even with such an engine it’s maximum speed is

claimed to be only 65 mp/h (130 km/h), why need more on such roads we have seen? They called it “The Tiger”, it sounds like oriental names like “The Silent Crawling Tiger” or so, and why wonder, more than half of Russia is situated in Asia.