T2#056. Dodge Shadow

T2#056	Dodge Shadow
real name	Direct Connection Shadow Turbo
source photo status	from Internet
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T2#055. FIAT

T2#055	FIAT
real name	Ferrari 126C4
source photo status	available
vk post	link to post

T2#054. Jaguar Ozel Yapim

T2#054	Jaguar Ozel Yapim
real name	Jaguar Ozel Yapim
source photo status	not found
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vk post 2	https://vk.com/wall-170914_3200

T2#053. Lincoln Continental

T2#053	Lincoln Continental
real name	Lincoln Continental Mk.VII
source photo status	from Internet
vk post	https://vk.com/wall-170914_28

T2#052. Honda Interceptors

T2#052	Honda Interceptors
real name	Honda RGB500
source photo status	not found
vk post	link

T2#051. Ferrari Testarossa

T2#051	Ferrari Testarossa
real name	Ferrari Testarossa
source photo status	from Internet
vk post	https://vk.com/wall-170914_4058

Turbo by Midjourney

This Turbo-inspired artwork set was created by Midjourney and Alexey Gladyshev. All the cars from Turbo 2-series collection is presented here. Alexey managed AI and select its best tries to create this amazing gallery. The cars look like they come from a parallel Universe.

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.

"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.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 12. #62. Tyrrell 011.

Candy Car.

Does advertisement work? I'm sure it does work, the question is the time that should pass until one will buy the advertised object! It was 1990 and I had never seen "Candy" logo before this wrapper. Also I didn't know what this word could mead. I used vocabulary to translate it to Russian (it was tasty and sweet). And my first washing machine is "Candy".

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 11. #61. Volkswagen Scirocco.

Wind's name.

Scirocco is simple but very nice car for me. When I had got this wrapper I couldn't read the name of model. Then my father explained me that it was the name of wind blowing in Italy from the south. And I had remembered it well. This time one couldn't find Scirocco on the SU strets. But it successor "Corrado" was well known in the 90s as "mafia car".

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 10. #60. Mercedes 190.

Wow, Mers!

This wrapper invoked natural feeling "Wow, Mers!" when one saw it first time. The car presented on it is the most usual Mercedes 190 or W201. There weren't a lot of Mercedes-Benz cars in SU cities streets, most of them were W123 or even W115 this time. So 190-model looked rather contemporary for the beginning of 1990s.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 9. #59. Motorcycles.

All bikes in one!

As I'm not specialist in motorcycles I've decided to put 'em all to one post (because I just cannot leave 'em unmentioned). So we could see all the bikes from Turbo wrappers here. I won't supply 'em with descriptions, cause I don't want to fill Internet with another boring bullshit from a person who isn't inside of a theme.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 8. #58. Ford Mustang

Is it the legend?

This wrapper was really rare. I think it was one of these few I'd got in the end of collection. Wrapper gave strange feeling. The name Mustang told - "it's legendary American muscle car", but the car looks just like a big hatch... I remember as I thought "May be that's the mistake... There's no any feeling of power, no sportivity, nothing to be legend as it was claimed." This time I didn't know that the name is true.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 7. #57. Opel Omega.

Nice Omega.

This car was rather good known in USSR. It was one of the most popular cars from abroad in our roads then as its predecessor Record E. It's normal, that the car looks like modernized and smoothened record. So I feel it like that these days. Near 1990-91 my father bought '80 Record E1 and this way Omega became one of the clearest foreign cars. Anyway it was pleasant to see in on wrapper.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 6. #56. Dodge Shadow.

My favorite wrapper.

Strange choice. Why is it favorite? Because it's first picture I imagine when I hear word "Turbo". Something is in it to attract & to remember through times. Probably that's absolutely best picture displaying ordinary Shadow - mustard yellow body, black toned glasses, cool rims... and blind front lights. The front lights are the details of big impression for me for some reason.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 5. #55. Ferrari 156/85 F1.

Red Stallion.

Formula One came to Russia some years after "Turbo". During "Turbo" days we didn't know much about racing in West World. So every image displaying the F1 cars was very curious. Thin wishbones, wide wheels, aerodynamic wings, safety bar behind the driver's helmet - Soviet kids had never seen something like this before. West became a bit closer. In 1990 Red Ferrari from F1 was something like alien's spaceship.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 4. #54. Jaguar XJ

Coolest Jaguar ever!

It was summer of 1990 and I was 9 years old when I had seen this wrapper first time. The only wish was to obtain it and I'd successfully bartered it for some other wrapper. #54 was rare one and I was really glad with the deal I had performed.
I was able to sit and look at it for a long time. I knew about the brand but I had never seen any Jaguar before.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 3. #53. Lincoln Continental

American Luxury.

Very nice wrapper in green & brown colors. Fresh as just after rain. Wet asphalt with reflection and grass hills on the backstage. The picture presents American Luxury Life. The life we all in SU had dreamt these hard days.
Car felt very comfortable & soft. I used to imagine how it would be great to sit on the rear place and travel by great American roads, looking at endless fields & hills.

"Turbo" wrappers. Chapter 2. #52 Honda Interceptors

Boring motocyclist's back

— 140 kilometers per hour!? Why do you need such a racing motorcycle if the Volga is driving faster? Serega Semin, who expected to "change" his not-so-valuable liner for at least something, was silent in confusion. He did not know that in half of the cases, the specifications on the inserts were incorrect. Half a lifetime passed in the blue labyrinths of public spaces. Classrooms, auditoriums, recreation areas, corridors, offices, libraries, pharmacies, entrances. The same blue, sometimes green paint and whitewash passing from the ceiling. Our whole world was eight-colored, because all the same colors looked at us from clothes, printing, toys, dishes, paint and plasticine. Like a translucent screen, they slightly covered the emptiness and depression.