Russian Classic Car Rally

[Ross Morgan #22943]

I've heard of several Cadillac purchases of late with the cars heading to Russia.  I found an interesting Rally in Moscow called the L.U.C. Chopard Classic Weekend Rally (L.U.C. Chopard is a Swiss-based luxury watch, jewellery, and accessories company founded in 1860 according to Wiki). It's in it's 10th years and it I quote "this year, despite rainy and windy weather, 70 old-timers followed the itinerary from Tretyakovsky Proezd to Barvikha Luxury Village.  The oldest participant of the event was Rolls Royce Phantom 1 Open Tourer manufactured in 1926".

The following link show some of the cars that entered including a 1959 Biarritz and a 1941 convertible. http://www.yamoskva.com/node/9957

The link below has a video link. I found both the website above and below to be totally safe.

http://www.pam65.ru/news.php?newsId=2739

I really enjoyed looking at the cars, streetscapes, people and noted the interest they they had in these classic cars!  To me, it's a sign that this interest is truly universal and is possibly growing in some parts of the world.

Regards, Ross.

[C.R. Patton II]

Fantastic Ross thank you for sharing!

[Bob Hoffmann CLC#96]

Ross,
VERY interesting! Too bad it rained on their parade. Also, it's hard to read the text.
I just read on the news that a freighter loaded with collectable cars in containers just got diverted from Oz to Russia. LOL. 
Bob

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

G'day Ross,

Thanks for posting that.

The audience is very appreciative of what they see, and there sure are a lot of imported vehicles in attendance.   I liked their humour with the Life Belt attached to the Spare Tyre.

When viewing the video, I found it best to set it going, then walk away and do something for half an hour, and then come back to watch it in its' entirety.   Took a really long time to download on my computer.

Bruce.

[Ross Morgan #22943]

Bob, from what i hear, I'd say the container was heading to Brazil!

Bruce, I had to do the same - wait a little to let the video download.

Did you scroll down to the last photo (first link)?  What a wonderful photo of a young boy, wearing a cap, standing behind a late 50's (?) Chrysler Imperial!  I've attached the photo here. What is more interesting is that the trunk lettering IMPERIAL has been changed to IMEPIR.. (IMEPIRLA or IMEPIRAL).  I thought that this might be the spelling of "Imperial" in Russian but using google translation, it's "императорский"

Regards, Ross.

[Jeff Maltby 4194]

 Calif Dreaming for Imperials :<)

Click on pictures to enlarge.

Check the Cyrillic alphabet, as used in Russia, where as far I could see, the Russian had spelled  Imperial correctly in Cyrillic on the Russian Imperial . The Cyrillic alphabet has some letters similar to Greek. It is a long time since St.Cyril took Christianity from Greece to Holy Russia! Even today, both the Greek and Russian Churches follow a similar Orthodox liturgy and language. Some Cyrillic letters look similar to the Latin alphabet we use here, but have quite a different sound, and most are similar in sound to Greek alphabet letters like pyre and delta. A few, like alpha and gamma are similar to the Latin letters, A and G.

From my Aussieland Gold Wing pal interpretation of ~:<) 

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

........ What is more interesting is that the trunk lettering IMPERIAL has been changed to IMEPIR.. (IMEPIRLA or IMEPIRAL).  I thought that this might be the spelling of "Imperial" in Russian but using google translation, it's "императорский" .......Regards, Ross.

I would say that the car was stripped down and painted, but they couldn't spell Imperial when deciding on which way the letters went.

Bruce.

[okccadman]

Jeff,  i have to ask.  Where is that incredible collection of Imperials?

[Jeff Maltby 4194]

Hi Jim. There in the central calif valley 3 miles from me. He had 200 at one time and now down to 150 or so ? I first met him in 87 and been best friends since though he just turned 80 with some health issues, but has advertised in hemming for years. I hope his sons have an auction when his time comes and not scrap them ?