Wednesday, December 05, 2012

ZIL 4906 Blue Bird

Commenter Sanchez brought this amphibious Soviet vehicle to my attention.  I'm going to have to do more research.  Maybe a Truck Thursday post for Hooniverse.


3 comments:

Alan said...

This is the kind of thing I live for.

Anonymous said...

Fantastic! I love your posts about automotive oddities like this and the (way less odd) Matador.

Ross K said...

As usual englishrussia.com is the place to go for weird cold war machinery:

http://englishrussia.com/2007/08/08/russian-monster-trucks-in-action/#more-1160

I never know the 490 was the carrier for that little augur-driven truck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYoRQxYBb8