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.