What's ZIS? It's a pre-war Russian Custom...

Russian Automobiles of the 50s and 60s were widely known to poorly copy popular American and Western European sedan designs, and were usually downright ugly as a result. However, imagine a classy, sporty pre-war roadster with a sectioned body, flush ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.

 

I like the big chrome V on the hood nose.

 

I'm diggin the screens on the headlights. Sort of like a high end Delahaye or such. It's a bit gangly alright, but some fine tuning here n there...

 

I'd love to hear the back story on this car and it's owner and it's builder.....Probably a person of power,position.......
may be mistaken,but I was under the impression that in Russia average folks in that time,& era- had little access to anything more than a large amount of cheap Vodka

 

It had less than four doors... leaves no chance to get in production, haha.
definitely one of my favorites from the old Russian stuff

 

Dig it! Keep searching those far corners...

 

The grill is pretty much upside down '39 Pontiac

 

Cool Commie Car!

 

At least some Russian models were made on tooling bought from US car companys as models went out of production. Ford built a plant there to make Fords, the Americans who went there to help run the plant were eventually killed by Stalin.

 

How decadent! Pretty classy for a classless society.

 

I was thinking the same thing.A little work and she'd be alright.

 

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Translation for decadent Amerikanski!
Witness Zis-112
Great of Soviet custom car for glory of father land.

 

I was talking to a russian while waiting for the ferry in Burlington,VT and he said he used to have a russian car, in russia, that looked like my '41 ford. he said it had a V-8 flathead engine just like a Ford. Thought he called a ZAT or ZAP.

 

Cool, but what about the 4dr convertible sedan sitting next to it?

 

for those who are interested...here are more russian 30s cars.

http://www.realussr.com/ussr/soviet-cars-history-of-the-copy-and-paste-industry-part-1-of-3/

 

google ZIS-102A and you'll find more shots of that thing.

 

Looks like a rework of Harley Earls Buick Le Sabre from the fifties.

 

What a Cool ride. Missed it the first time. Thanks Moparboy440 for bringing it back up on the sectioning thread.

 

There's this Volga coupe that was built some years ago. Basically a reskinned BMW, but beautifully done.

https://images.app.goo.gl/bk6ievbZgT529SZq5

 

The doors look they were copied from Packards Dutch Darrin customized starting in 1938, I believe.

 

To cap it off they never paid for the plant, too.

 

I thought these plants were "donated" under one of the post war Marshall plans, meaning the USG / our taxpaying grand parents paid Ford to do it. Not so? I think it is also one of the reasons we have Ford designed flatheads in French cars etc..