Author Topic: Solved: GTE 219 - 1956 'Minsk' of Alexander Krasovsky & Vladimir Mayboroda  (Read 3084 times)

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2019, 07:35:55 PM »
Czechoslovakia?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2019, 08:43:57 PM »

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2019, 09:15:25 PM »
Since the scope of the term 'Eastern Europe' can be ambiguous, let's just say it was built in one of these blue areas:
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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2019, 10:01:20 PM »
Would that be Turkey?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #30 on: November 12, 2019, 10:07:31 PM »
Would that be Turkey?
Not turkey

Ukraine
Romania
Turkey

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #31 on: November 12, 2019, 11:22:32 PM »
Belarus?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2019, 12:35:14 AM »

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2019, 07:01:26 AM »
Was it built in minsk?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2019, 12:04:58 PM »

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #35 on: November 13, 2019, 12:20:05 PM »
Was it built in the 1980s by students?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2019, 12:37:53 PM »
Was it built in the 1980s by students?
It was built in the 1950s (see Reply #5) and not by students.

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #37 on: November 25, 2019, 03:17:00 AM »
Pros?

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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #38 on: November 25, 2019, 10:11:41 AM »
Google translate says :

"An unpretentious car in the foreground is the Minsk race car, built in the MAZ experimental workshop and equipped with the Moskvich-402 engine. The car went to start out of competition."

and :

"A sports car built in the experimental workshop of the Minsk Automobile Plant in 1956 by A. Krasovsky and V. Mayboroda. The design was based on a tubular spatial frame, the suspension of all wheels was torsion (the front was independent, the rear was of the De-Dion type), and the engine was Moskvich-402. The car was built in a short time, almost without blueprints, for the 1956 USSR Championship. Since Minsk was announced late for the competition, it was not submitted to the technical commission and was therefore allowed to participate outside the competition. Krasovsky and Mayboroda on this car went the entire distance and actually took tenth place. “Minsk” did not participate in other competitions."
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Re: GTE 219
« Reply #39 on: November 25, 2019, 12:43:12 PM »
Google translate says :

"An unpretentious car in the foreground is the Minsk race car, built in the MAZ experimental workshop and equipped with the Moskvich-402 engine. The car went to start out of competition."

and :

"A sports car built in the experimental workshop of the Minsk Automobile Plant in 1956 by A. Krasovsky and V. Mayboroda. The design was based on a tubular spatial frame, the suspension of all wheels was torsion (the front was independent, the rear was of the De-Dion type), and the engine was Moskvich-402. The car was built in a short time, almost without blueprints, for the 1956 USSR Championship. Since Minsk was announced late for the competition, it was not submitted to the technical commission and was therefore allowed to participate outside the competition. Krasovsky and Mayboroda on this car went the entire distance and actually took tenth place. “Minsk” did not participate in other competitions."
Precisely!
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