Six out of the seven original Mercury astronauts drove Corvettes, so what did the famous Russian cosmonaut get? A Matra Djet. From France, not even from his country. Seriously. That's a hoot

Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut we’re talking about, was given his Djet by the government of France in 1965.

The car wasn't blue, “The original color of the astronaut car, chassis number 10146, was “Gris platine irisé” (Rainbow Platinum Gray) with a black interior.”   

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