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06/09/2010 12:45 am
Back from the Ukraine, hopefully my head catches up later this week.
I received as a gift a DeAgostini partwork ΓA3-M20B ПOБEДA sedan. Which, of course, is the famous Pobeda from the GAZ factory. Really not a bad model, it is #2 in their series of Soviet Union cars. Pobeda's were made from 1946-1958 but I do prefer to assign model years to my models. Anyone have a close guess on this one? I'll post a picture when I get organized.
06/09/2010 1:51 am
06/09/2010 1:55 am
Thanks Paul, a highlight was dinner with Volodymyr Sorokolat.
Pictures from that event will appear here soon. It was he who gifted me with the model.
06/09/2010 2:28 am
Welcome back Dick! The old Soviet series of diecasts variously known as Saratov or Novoexport made a GAZ A, which was the Model A Ford. Another firm made somewhat cruder models of the truck line, GAZ AA (two-axle), GAZ AAA (three axle), and GAZ 60 (Kegresse-type halftrack).
06/09/2010 4:00 am
06/09/2010 4:17 am
Welcome back Dick. Hope your arms have recovered after all that rowing!
06/09/2010 4:20 am
Dick, they only difference was in the grille. If I remember correctly, it's a 1955.
06/09/2010 5:47 am
Dick has a rowboat? Thank goodness! I thought he had to swim all that way.
06/09/2010 10:19 am
John, not all of us can afford travel aboard our own Sputnik, and Dick's being practical, I bet !
06/09/2010 10:20 am
I hope you had a great time and took lots of pictures !
06/09/2010 11:39 am
I do believe that 1955 was the correct year.
I went through the partwork magazine and 1955 appeared several times.
06/09/2010 2:45 pm
A new, state of the art GAZ A model has just been made in the DeAgostini partswork series.
06/09/2010 4:03 pm
The IST Models version (also IXO, slightly more detailed) lists as 1950.