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>>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.

Furthermore, if you get seriously historic (never hysteric) about it, you
want it because, while the 1946-up M-20 styling was ah, "borrowed" from GM's
(Detroit-influenced [pre-war]) Opel.  (Unless GM stole Loewy's
Studebaker...)

http://heritage.opel.com.tr/images/02_1938.gif

http://autobook.by.ru:81/pic/pobeda_foto/gaz-m20_001.jpg

(and even Mrs. Calabash knows that nose...)

http://auta5p.car.cz/katalog/nash/ambassador_48_01.jpg

Later GAZ cars "stole" style from Teague's GM studio

http://www.tocmp.com/pix/images/1947Cad1.jpg

(if we need to specify which one for AMCers)

http://www.retro-style.ru/html/prod_gaz12.htm

and from Teague's facelift of Reinhart's car

http://www.ohioconcours.com/1999/99-129.jpg

(if we need to specify that for AMCers, also)

http://www.ig1.ru/catalog/article_info.php/articles_id/22

(and it looks less like a Plymouth in monotone)

http://www.oldtimer.lt/fotog/svente/GAZ-13(1960).jpg

http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/gaz/chaika1a.jpg

Finally, since it also looks like a Buick,

http://www.misterw.com/Buick/57BuickCon17b.jpg

http://www.abc.se/~m9805/eastcars/gaz/chaika1b.jpg

you may also blame your "want" on Charlie Nash.


And thus is that old AMC car circle unbroken...




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