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What's this, from when and where - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2013, 11:06:20 AM »
Sovietic car?

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2013, 11:17:07 AM »
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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2013, 11:48:43 AM »
a zil 112 sport

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2013, 03:14:36 PM »
a zil 112 sport

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2013, 05:51:35 AM »
a zil 112 sport

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..but I can't keep it locked forever!
To help you along a bit, the following threads both feature a/the ZIL 112 Sport.  So why is this one different?

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=2988.msg19967#msg19967

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7044.msg49425#msg49425
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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2013, 06:24:24 AM »
 a Russian Zil 112 sport. the picture was taken in 1962 in Baskunchak salt Lake. the car have the chassis # 1

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2013, 07:19:43 AM »
a Russian Zil 112 sport. the picture was taken in 1962 in Baskunchak salt Lake. the car have the chassis # 1

All of that information is correct, although for the purposes of this puzzle it would be more accurate to describe this particular car as being based on the original 112S..

As you can see it has different bodywork from the other 112S; why, when was it fitted and what special name did this car have whilst it was fitted?; also what happened to it afterwards?

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2013, 09:25:23 AM »
haha i found the correct book this time, i hope.
that car recibe the name of 112 RG and was desing to beat the sovietic land speed record in Baskunchak salt Lake but the rain dont let it. Only reach 230 km, said by newspapers.
The second record attempt was made at the just-built 14-kilometer Dmitrovski autorange. This time, the ZIL team planned to beat a record of average speed set during the 24h race.  It’s not clear to the author if the car would have been the 112 S,  or in fact the 112 RG, later rebuilt back into the 112 S configuration), but as the car and the track were prepared,  winter weather began, and no record attempt could be taken. The next year ZIL management considered the building racing cars an unnecessary capital waste, and switched to another endeavors.

For a long time, both 112 S cars were left standing somewhere at the factory, and later found a home in the Riga auto museum. Both were painted in the wrong colors - red and cream-white. The original ZIL livery was white and blue for both of the cars. Today, one of them is still in Riga, while another found its way abroad, into the hands of a car collector in Sweden

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Re: NEH 3139
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2013, 10:19:55 AM »
That's the story, yes!
Well done.

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