This ISH 1500 Kombi, also known as a IZh 2125 Kombi or a Moskvitch 1500 Kombi, is one of my favorite of the mainstream Soviet cars, and is generally regarded as the first Soviet hatchback. It’s really more of a wagon, technically, but it absolutely has a hatchback, and was quite a practical family car. With that in mind, this ad is especially odd, since I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a driver look as much like he’s hitting on someone as Sergei Sunglasses here is, to that lady on the horse.
I mean, look at the body language here: one hand draped over the steering wheel, leaning completely out that window, elbow and pushed-up jacket sleeve on that door, everything in the service of putting the moves on the blonde on the stallion.
Plus, he seems to have driven all the way out into a field, not a road in sight, to corner Svetlana there and tell her that if she needs a ride, she can just toss that big dumb animal in the hatch and hop in the car.
Let a player play, I suppose.
And she responds “My equine has more HP than that auto.”
Oh, those russians! (just thinking of a Boney M song now..)
Who elso would take a Renault 10 front, make it a bit uglier, and then stick it on a bad knock off Opel?
Not THAT kind of personal experience…Lew was talking about experience with the CAR…
Why did 1970’s europeans spend so much time driving into fields? I lived on a damn farm and we almost never drove cars or trucks into the middle of a field.
Ha, it’s been a while since I last saw an Izh.
When I was a kid I used to ride on the bed of an Izh 2715, which was a sort of makeshift pickup that people made from the original panel vans, by, yes, you guessed it, removing the panel.
A 2 in 1 vehicle, panel van in the winter, pickup in the summer.
They’ve probably all rotted away to nothing since then, I still remember the typical smell of the interior.
VAZ-2122 Reka(amphibious) or maybe a VAZ-2329 for me please.
“Hey Baby, I bet I can beat you to that barn over there. Let’s race for pink slips, if you know what I mean “
Judging by his eye-line, I think he’s actually hitting on the horse, but by the way the horse is turning its head, it’s playing hard to get.
I believe the Kombi was developed in-house by IZH as their own modification, whereas usually they just built Moskvitch designs as-is to provide extra volume beyond what AZLK could do at their own plant. In a way, it’s a Soviet counterpart to the VAM Lerma
I feel what’s missing here is a tank or a comically gigantic piece of ugly machinery in the background somewhere.
He’s trying to convince her that his P.O.S. does have more horsepower than her current ride.
” It’s really more of a wagon, technically, but it absolutely has a hatchback.”
If the man who defined the rules can’t even make the determination, I think we need to revisit the rules again.
It’s a wagon.
It’s that arm draped over the steering wheel – Classic!
“Comrade, have you not heard of cars? You no longer need to ride horse!”
Is that Taarna from the movie Heavy Metal? Or is this the eastern European version of the movie Better Off Dead.
What is the carbuncle on the driver side front fender?
Also, look at those lovely bi-color front indicator lenses.
You got my curiosity up. First thought was fuel filler cap for a tank high on the firewall, but, other pictures I found seem to show a matching carbuncle (great descriptor!) on the drinker’s side, so, nope. I got nothin’.
I bet Rex Bennet would know!
Nonsense, he’s a common Soviet working man calling out her bourgeois decadence. For that, it’s worth driving across a field.
Oh no! You just pissed Manya off!
https://youtu.be/z3ik4qJBoPk?t=34
Can’t wait for somebody to drop in with first hand experience on one of those.
Girls on horses are the best.