Most of them comes here as used cars in 90’s (mainly cars of 80’s and nineties), when the Soviet Union was down. For example, my ‘90 Grand Marquis was imported here in 92, and professor of the Moscow State University owns it all the time before me. Ambulance was made for Pennsylvania Suburban squad, works there, but when it was imported in Russia in mid-90’s, it was an ambulance too, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs). But if you drove a foreign made car here at that time - you was not a such person. It was a some escalation of how important you are. If you are the ordinary man - you are pedestrian or Soviet car driver, if you starts as businessman or street gangster, your car will be a used Japanese or European import, but if you a god father, successful businessman or famous person, your car is Mercedes (W140), BMW (7-series), top of the line English, and, of course, American made cars. Don’t know the story of my Olds before late 90’s. The first information which I have from ‘97. The owner lived in the center of the Moscow. In 2000 this Olds was sold to the village for a boss of the local company where I found it ~20 years later. Don’t know why it didn’t eats asphalt all that time, but it’s fine.Game Over, do you have any history on why these types of cars have ended up in Russia? It seems strange that during the cold war era, people were importing American vehicles to what was a communist country at the time?
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