American muscle flexed at Russia car show
An early '70s Chevy El Camino at a car show wouldn't usually get a second glance. Add a beautiful, airbrushed wild, wild west theme and it might get the judges' attention. But no matter how detailed the cowboy's Stetson, the painted pickup probably wouldn't rank a post on Autoblog.
But take that Chevy, move it about 6,000 miles from the country that inspired its custom paint, and things get interesting. Especially on a slow news day like today.
Google's Russian is really rough, so we can't tell where in Russia this collection of '70s Vettes, Camaros and El Caminos is gathered, but it's just really odd to see that silver bow tie above a Russian license plate, and a JEGS sticker right next to characters not even in our alphabet. Of course we're aware there are American muscle fans worldwide, we just thought you, too, might enjoy the odd blending of America and Russia as much as we did.
[Source: Steer.ru]
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jg3 7:33PM (8/13/2007)
The sticker next to the Jegs plate simply says Chevrolet Camaro, transliterated. The event is Auto Exotica 07, but the blog didn't say where that even happened, that I could tell.
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Barney 7:33PM (8/13/2007)
I can't agree "An early '70s Chevy El Camino at a car show wouldn't usually get a second glance."
These vehicles have a faithful following. The Russian just made this one that more desirable. Unique vehicles are so when the standard every day car is in a foreign environment. A Russian car would be unique here but maybe not so desirable.
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Sleighboy 7:43PM (8/13/2007)
Just thought i'd share a couple links to photos of this great job a guy in Estonia did on his 88 Chevrolet Celebrity. It may not have the punch a ElCamino or Vette does, but it looks great and i'm all for the FWD GM A-body love.
http://www.tqhq.ee/dir.php?id=99
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/609103/1
Sorry about the car domain link, I cannot locate his personal website.
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Keith 8:55PM (8/13/2007)
This event was in Moscow on July 13-14 and had over 4000 unique cars, according to the press release.
If you read Russian, there's a press release at:
http://www.dp.ru/msk/news/pressrelease/2007/07/12/227900/
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IvanEvdokimov 1:29PM (8/15/2007)
I live in Moscow and I also was there with my Pontiac Firebird :) On the photo you can see Freedom Cars (www.freedomcars.ru) club place on Autoexotica 2007 (http://www.autoexotica.ru/). We have a lot of interesting cars here.
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