Autoquiz 440

[carsntrucks4you]

After Italian styled cars back to something normal. As usual sent PM with Make, Type and Year.

 

 

[peteski]

That one I knew instantly - brings back my childhood memories. I was going to mention its unusual feature, but that might give someone a hint or keyword to search.

[Russell C]

22 hours ago, peteski said:

That one I knew instantly ...

Me, too, but for a much different reason. Not my favorite car at all in general, but one particular variant is.

[Ace-Garageguy]

8 hours ago, Russell C said:

Me, too, but for a much different reason. Not my favorite car at all in general, but one particular variant is.

I believe I know the one you mean. 

[Matt Bacon]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I believe I know the one you mean. 

Me, too, though it’s a bit of a stretch, really...

best,

M.

[Earl Marischal]

New rear wing? Different shade of grey.

steve

[carsntrucks4you]

This weeks car was a car from Russia a 1962 -1970 GAZ M21 Volga.  The first GAZ M21 Volga was build in 1956 . In 1962 the had changed the design of the grill like the one in the picture. In 1965 it was renamed to GAZ 21

 

The winners are:

Bucky

GeeBee

ChrisR

Ace-Garageguy

Richard Bartrop

maltsr

peteski

dodgefever

sjordan2

Matt Bacon

Russel C

dw1603

Earl Marischal

matthijsgrit

blunc

 

Congratulations, well done guys

[Russell C]

And the aforementioned favorite conversion I mentioned, link from one of the original articles with more pics from Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carstyling.ru%2Fen%2Fentry%2FVolga_V12_Coupe_2001_Nostalgiya_po_nastoyashemu%2F&act=url

[Richard Bartrop]

That's the one that tweaked my memory as well.   It turned out nice.

 

[Bucky]

The coupe is really sharp looking!

[peteski]

Yeah, that custom Volga is prety sweet looking!
 

Going back to the original, as a kid I was fascinated by the really cool transparent speedometer in those cars.  It was a transparent blue half a dome located on top of the dash (you can see it in the photo), with the numbers printed on a clear plastic sheet.  I thought that thing was a cat's meow!  IIRC, one of the Ford T-birds from the '60s has a similar speedometer.