Saturday, July 23, 2016
God bless interchangeability!
A nice example of Orlov's point about the Russian emphasis on REPAIRABILITY, which I've discussed in the context of electronics.
A Russian correspondent at Curbside Classic is describing the latest 'Peking to Paris Motor Challenge', an early endurance contest that was recently revived. Many of the participating cars are exotic, but this one isn't:
1930 Ford model A (Rod Wade / Austen Ritchie, Australia). It seems that the original wire wheels gave way to those borrowed from a Lada Niva, with the same 5×5.5″ lug pattern (GAZ didn’t change it since the times of GAZ-A, the same pattern was used on all GAZ cars and UAZ light trucks until mid-1990s). God bless interchangeability!GAZ started as a Ford-owned plant building As and tractors, but when Henry couldn't tame the freedom-loving Russians he gave up. The plant continued making Fords for a while, then later switched to Fiats (Ladas).
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