Re: but you want...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Mahoney, John wrote:

> >>I want a Pobeda!
> 
> Well, why not, since the WWII Victory ("Pobjeda") was celebrated with an
> all-new car (shown in 1944; produced from 1946) under the shade of AMC's
> family tree?  It was the first Soviet auto with a 1940 Nash-style unit body;
> its 0.34 cd was not unlike the aerodynamic advance of a 1949 Nash Airflyte;
> it was built over an AMC-like two-plus decades; and (only related if you
> recall which Mopars were built by AMC, that is), its I-4 was an, ah,
> "unlicensed cut-down copy" of a Dodge six motor.

The Pobeda is also a mishmash of a little bit of everything,
a swedish meatball of a car (the ones my mother made were also
as swedish as AMC -- zilch) or is that american chop suey,
another childhood staple (ouch).

Most Googles for 'pobeda' return cyrillic results, but 'pobeda
california' (eh, I'm lazy) returns #1:

http://russia.lovetopping.com/dating_women/glendale_heights_pobeda_dating_women.html

Not quite what I had in mind.