Soviet-era cars transformed into dream machines

Revealed - Russian hot rods in all their glory (englishrussia .com)

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Published 26 September, 2007, 09:30

Most of these cars were produced in the USSR. The Soviet engineers who designed them wanted them all to look the same. But Russian car enthusiasts had other ideas.

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