Thursday, February 6, 2014

Psychoanalysis


It's not a secret that a lot of our mind's stuff is coming from the childhood. When I was just 5 I had rather big number of old auto journals (probably dated about end of 70s) named "ZA RULYOM" ("Behing the steering wheel"). And I had been spending a lot of time reading them, specially looking to foreign cars. It's quite hard to describe it in few words, but this had a great influence to all my life. These days it was one of my most favorite occupation to sit on the floor looking through the journals. And I had been really enjoying doing that. Then my journals was lost...
But I want to return the enjoy. I have been always wanting to get my enjoy back. For more then 20 years I've been collecting the old journals, buying them on old book shops and flea-markets. And only now my dream and my enjoy get back. ZR.ru published the full archive of "ZA RULYOM" from the early beginning. Now I can enjoy again, on-line.
The picture on the front of the article is in my head for about 25 years. Especially 2 cars "Renault 5 Turbo" and "Jeep Cherokee Chief". These cars inspired me so much that I conserved 'em in my memory for more then 2 decades. Why? It's not so hard to explain... Soviet past + childhood dreams = Powerful mind stamp for all life.
With this picture I'll open unique series in my blog. I shall post all the pictures that will appear in my memories. That's kinda open psychoanalysis. Let's go deep.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 13. #63. Opel Kadett.

Just Kadett

What do you think when see that car on the street? Just the ordinary 80s hatch... Nothing more. There's no any surprize to see Kadett E in USSR cities of the 90s. The wrapper itself wasn't rare, nice nor interesting. It was usual, evenmore it was banal. As if now you'll see the wrapper with ...Lanos or Logan ... or Nexia.