Home-made vehicle
Banaane ei ole-exhibition, Tallinn
Uncle Uno's car.
The Banaane ei ole-exhibition shows what was it like to live in the Estonian USSR. One of the main objects is this car. It was built by a man called Uno. He knew that he'll never be able to get a car in his lifetime because only the members of the Communist Party could buy cars and Uno didn't want to be a member. So Uno decided to build a car himself. He made the body, the rear lights, the chassis, the rear axle and the seats himself. In the Soviet time the motor of a homemade car wasn't allowed to have a engine capacity over 750cm³ so he took a motor from a motorcycle. Later it was replaced with a 1.4 litre Moskvitch 408 engine. The front glass and the front axle were also from a Moskvitch 408. The headlights came from a Tula motor scooter and the bumper from a Moskvitch 401. The brake drums were cut out of an old oxygen tank. The wheels and tyres came from a Zaporozhets.
Uncle Uno's car has a total mileage of about 50 000 kilometers. The longest journey was from Estonia trough Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova on to Crimea and back via Moscow. So the car was a travel machine that looked like a sports car.
Also the car doesn't have a front plate so I'll post the front view to the comments as soon as possible. And last but not least this is my first spot from the USSR.
Comments (18)
Zaza Chabashvili 2018-07-29 19:24:25 | #6
OnaA (2018-07-29 12:58:21)OnaA
Front view:
А для тех кто не шпрехает на английском нельзя на Великом и Могущем? Front view:
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MidnightRun 2018-07-29 20:34:59 | #7
I smell bullshit in this story: rear lights are factory ones, taken from a Moskvitch, and, how come only a member of the Communist party could buy a car in the Soviet times? Maybe it was true in the Estonian republic, but definitely not in the USSR.
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Антон Геращенко 2018-07-29 21:05:33 | #9
Juterman (2018-07-29 20:54:47)Многоязычие это когда подпись к фото хотя бы на двух языках, а не на одном.
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Роман-Питер 2018-07-30 02:45:29 | #10
Кто бы перевёл текст к машине, от финской девчонки, на русский
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Elwd64rus 2018-07-30 09:08:11 | #13
How did the owner make a rear axel by himself? the rear lights aren't self made, they are from a moskvich 412. My grampa in Russia was nor a party member but still had a car. Different law in Estonia? Cars in SU were epxensive and were a deficite but still everyone was allowed to have one. Not a truck or a bus. But a car was allowed to own. Just hard to get one
Как автор этого автомобиля сам создал задний мост?? задние фонари тоже не самодельные, они от Москвича 412. У моего деда в России была машина ,хоть он и не был членом партии. В Эстонии что, другие законы были? В СССР авто были дороги и были дефицитом, но иметь их не запрещалось. Просто было сложно достать
Как автор этого автомобиля сам создал задний мост?? задние фонари тоже не самодельные, они от Москвича 412. У моего деда в России была машина ,хоть он и не был членом партии. В Эстонии что, другие законы были? В СССР авто были дороги и были дефицитом, но иметь их не запрещалось. Просто было сложно достать
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OnaA 2018-07-30 10:20:55 | #14
Elwd64rus (2018-07-30 09:08:11)Elwd64rus
How did the owner make a rear axel by himself? the rear lights aren't self made, they are from a moskvich 412. My grampa in Russia was nor a party member but still had a car. Different law in Estonia? Cars in SU were epxensive and were a deficite but still everyone was allowed to have one. Not a truck or a bus. But a car was allowed to own. Just hard to get one
Как автор этого автомобиля сам создал задний мост?? задние фонари тоже не самодельные, они от Москвича 412. У моего деда в России была машина ,хоть он и не был членом партии. В Эстонии что, другие законы были? В СССР авто были дороги и были дефицитом, но иметь их не запрещалось. Просто было сложно достать
How did the owner make a rear axel by himself? the rear lights aren't self made, they are from a moskvich 412. My grampa in Russia was nor a party member but still had a car. Different law in Estonia? Cars in SU were epxensive and were a deficite but still everyone was allowed to have one. Not a truck or a bus. But a car was allowed to own. Just hard to get one
Как автор этого автомобиля сам создал задний мост?? задние фонари тоже не самодельные, они от Москвича 412. У моего деда в России была машина ,хоть он и не был членом партии. В Эстонии что, другие законы были? В СССР авто были дороги и были дефицитом, но иметь их не запрещалось. Просто было сложно достать
I can't go to detail. I only told what the exhibition told me. Also the waiting time to get a car cloud go up to years so that can be one reason. I'll post the pictures of the texts of the exhibition the source I used. Hopefully the texts are readable.
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Elwd64rus 2018-07-30 12:59:49 | #16
OnaA (2018-07-30 10:28:08)OnaA
And hopefully someone can translate my text to Russian properly because unfortunately I can't speak or write in Russian.
And hopefully someone can translate my text to Russian properly because unfortunately I can't speak or write in Russian.
thanx for the text from the exibition. I say it's either incompetence of the author, information from the car owner without checking or anti-soviet propaganda. Or all together
)Here I've translated the text under your photo.
Спасибо за фото описания из музея. Я думаю, это либо некомпетентность автора описания, или информация от владельца машины без проверки, либо анти-советская пропаганда. Или все вместе.
Вот перевод текста из описания к фото, по просьбе автора:
Фото с выставки «Banaane ei ole-exhibition», посвященной жизни в Советской Эстонии. Одним из главных экспонатов является эта машина. Ее построил человек по имени Уно. Он знал, что никогда не сможет купить автомобиль, потому что это могли сделать только члены КПСС, а он не хотел вступать в партию. Поэтому Уно решил построить автомобиль сам. Он сам построил кузов, сделал задние фонари, подвеску, задний мост и сидения. При советской власти мотор самодельного автомобиля не мог быть больше 750 cm³, поэтому Уно поставил двигатель от мотоцикла. Позже его заменили на 1.4 литровый мотор от 408 москвича. Лобовое стекло и передний мост – тоже от 408 москвича. Фары поставили от мотороллера Тула, а перебний бампер – от Москвича 401. Тормозные барабаны вырезаны из старого кислородного баллона. Диски и резину поставили от Запорожца.
Автомобиль Дядушки Уно имеет пробег около 50 000 километров. Самое длинное путешествие было из Эстонии через Латвию, Литву, Беларусь, Украину и Молдову в Крым и обратно через Москву. Так что, этот автомобиль – машина для путешествий, выглядящая, как спортивная машина.
На машине отсутствует передний номерной знак, так что я запощу вид спереди в комментах, как только смогу.
И наконец, но не в последнюю очередь, Это мой первый номер в галерее СССР.
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Slava1973 2018-07-30 14:49:16 | #17
Thank you for photos of beautiful car and interesting story about Uno. But unfortunately you are not right in saying, that only the members of the Communist Party could buy cars. It is one of scary tales about Soviet Union!!! This tale is false and absurd. Everyone in the USSR could buy a car! In the 1980-s every family of my school mates had got its own car. But there were only a few different models of cars in the USSR, so many people wanted to stand out from the crowd. They made cars by own hands. These cars were called «samodelka» (hand-made car). There were lots of such cars in the USSR. Every year there were many festivals, exhibitions and parades of hand-made cars in the USSR. So Uno^s car is not unique.
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OnaA 2018-07-30 21:09:44 | #18
Slava1973 (2018-07-30 14:49:16)Slava1973
Thank you for photos of beautiful car and interesting story about Uno. But unfortunately you are not right in saying, that only the members of the Communist Party could buy cars. It is one of scary tales about Soviet Union!!! This tale is false and absurd. Everyone in the USSR could buy a car! In the 1980-s every family of my school mates had got its own car. But there were only a few different models of cars in the USSR, so many people wanted to stand out from the crowd. They made cars by own hands. These cars were called «samodelka» (hand-made car). There were lots of such cars in the USSR. Every year there were many festivals, exhibitions and parades of hand-made cars in the USSR. So Uno^s car is not unique.
Thank you for photos of beautiful car and interesting story about Uno. But unfortunately you are not right in saying, that only the members of the Communist Party could buy cars. It is one of scary tales about Soviet Union!!! This tale is false and absurd. Everyone in the USSR could buy a car! In the 1980-s every family of my school mates had got its own car. But there were only a few different models of cars in the USSR, so many people wanted to stand out from the crowd. They made cars by own hands. These cars were called «samodelka» (hand-made car). There were lots of such cars in the USSR. Every year there were many festivals, exhibitions and parades of hand-made cars in the USSR. So Uno^s car is not unique.
Thanks! I'm sorry if I had wrong information but as I said I only used the texts from the exhibition as my source and that's the information I wrote down.
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