The unique retro-radio rolled to Baikonur

On the last journey: the Soviet auto industry escorts Soviet cosmos

The so-called “Gagarinsky start” is about to be mothballed-the site No. 1 on Baikonur, from where the first person flew into space on April 12, 1961, and then for a long time-until the last days-piloted ships started. The other day, the final launch of the rocket is planned. This event will celebrate this event solemn. Including – and a “space” automobile, which started the other day from the Korolev near Moscow. Mileage, of course, is not simple, but in retro style.

The Muscovites, Zaporozhets and Volga, released in the seventies of the last century: practically the same age as the Gagarinsky start, headed the Royal Flight Center for Baikonur. To which the old people will have to overcome more than 2500 km, and even go back. For old -times – really cosmic mileage, given that not every modern car is able to overcome such a distance without problems.

To the marathon, who, of course, received the motto “Sucked!”, The owners of the cars – members of the Royal Club “Old Diligins” – were prepared carefully: they gritted the pendants, checked the brake systems. What can I say: for the sake of this trip to Gagarin, one of the owners invested 45,000 rubles in the intensive care unit!

Nevertheless, the problems began already on the first kilometers of the journey. However, this is even symbolic, because Gagarin had more than enough of them: literally before the starting, difficulties arose with the closure of the hatch; Barakhil of the brake system; The stabilization of the ship was broken …

At our “autocronauts” in the Moscow region, the rear axle oil seal on one of the “Muscovites” was flowing in the Moscow region, a squeezing bearing at the “Zaporozhets” flew under Ryazan, and not far from Penza the caravan stood due to the most powerful rain-brushes of glass miners did not cope with the retrofacial miners. loads.

But they reached, reached, once again proving that the Soviet autopom, despite all the claims to him, made quite reliable cars, quite, as we see, capable of arguing over time. As he argues with him, and even ahead of the “Soviet cosmos”, which still gives a head start to the whole world …