beautiful wheeled creatures
For years (sinc ethe early 90es...right after a car accident we had..after our poor Renault-14's passing away) i've been developing an interest in cars...but not in all cars...actually, i'm becoming more selective as yearsgo by and modern ones are those who i feel are less interesting. And some years ago my interest for East-european cars...staring with the misterious Autovaz and then the immortal Lada Niva (both Russian). Not so long ago i discovered Trabant, from the former East Germany (which i hope to see personally one day, before they disappear from roads). Ah...and the last discovery is the model in the picture, russian, UAZ (уаз) 3962 (fist image) /39094 
(the other pic). And...how did i come across such beautiful creature?? it was thanks to a documentary about political repression and its devastation in Mongolia. I did think of this van and fell in love with it...but didn't think about it again, but vaguely. But today, on Cuatro Tv channel, i was checking what was coming after a Jackie Chan movie (i watched some scenes)....and there was another Jackie Chan movie (another!!! the first had something to do with racing cars...and the second with a russian woman, typically named Natasha, as many Russian characters in movies)...and i spotted some uaz 3962!!!! but in their military use version, in typical-military-green. Then i left, without paying much attention to the movie...and came here aiming to finally find the model-name- of this van, which seems to have feelings and to be looking at us with a tender expression...different from that of a Trabant, a happier one, different from the expression of a Lada Niva, which looks funnier....and radically different to that of a Renault 8 (uff!!!), the cars of the scary expression. Ah...but any car substitutes any other...the range of venerated wheeled creatures is just widened...i won't remove the Trabi (trabant) i have in my desktop as wallpaper..a skyblue trabi...uaz 3962 now shares room with Trabi, VW corrado, Citroën DS, some old SEAT, old Datsuns, Renault 8, 5 (the oldest version) fuego , citroën 2CV, and so on...but many of them, in the real world are on the verge of extinction (not oblivion, though, since the list of lovers they have seems to be large from the amount of sites dedicated to them). But beautiful wheeled creatures go to heaven...or reincarnate in birds or in colourful insects...or just in USB flash memories...or forgotten bikes, or kitchen tools or hair pins.
For years (sinc ethe early 90es...right after a car accident we had..after our poor Renault-14's passing away) i've been developing an interest in cars...but not in all cars...actually, i'm becoming more selective as yearsgo by and modern ones are those who i feel are less interesting. And some years ago my interest for East-european cars...staring with the misterious Autovaz and then the immortal Lada Niva (both Russian). Not so long ago i discovered Trabant, from the former East Germany (which i hope to see personally one day, before they disappear from roads). Ah...and the last discovery is the model in the picture, russian, UAZ (уаз) 3962 (fist image) /39094 
(the other pic). And...how did i come across such beautiful creature?? it was thanks to a documentary about political repression and its devastation in Mongolia. I did think of this van and fell in love with it...but didn't think about it again, but vaguely. But today, on Cuatro Tv channel, i was checking what was coming after a Jackie Chan movie (i watched some scenes)....and there was another Jackie Chan movie (another!!! the first had something to do with racing cars...and the second with a russian woman, typically named Natasha, as many Russian characters in movies)...and i spotted some uaz 3962!!!! but in their military use version, in typical-military-green. Then i left, without paying much attention to the movie...and came here aiming to finally find the model-name- of this van, which seems to have feelings and to be looking at us with a tender expression...different from that of a Trabant, a happier one, different from the expression of a Lada Niva, which looks funnier....and radically different to that of a Renault 8 (uff!!!), the cars of the scary expression. Ah...but any car substitutes any other...the range of venerated wheeled creatures is just widened...i won't remove the Trabi (trabant) i have in my desktop as wallpaper..a skyblue trabi...uaz 3962 now shares room with Trabi, VW corrado, Citroën DS, some old SEAT, old Datsuns, Renault 8, 5 (the oldest version) fuego , citroën 2CV, and so on...but many of them, in the real world are on the verge of extinction (not oblivion, though, since the list of lovers they have seems to be large from the amount of sites dedicated to them). But beautiful wheeled creatures go to heaven...or reincarnate in birds or in colourful insects...or just in USB flash memories...or forgotten bikes, or kitchen tools or hair pins.
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