Wednesday, February 19, 2020

NAMI-A50 Belka, thanks Mark F! A concept car, Thanks Mark F!

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  1. They made some wonderful cars. Here's a slightly larger one:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/aajc02/soviet_zil119/

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  2. That's a cool little car. I like the squirrel emblem that holds the side marker lights. Turns out "Belka" is squirrel in Russian.

    I found this article about the designer, Yuri Dolmatovsky, from the Soviet Automobile Industry Research Institute (NAMI). He made some other interesting designs.
    http://ceautoclassic.eu/the-life-and-influence-of-yuri-dolmatovsky/

    I could only find one picture with the front of the car opened -
    https://www.allcarindex.com/concept/russia/nami/050-belka/

    There was also an open version of the A50 -
    https://www.allcarindex.com/concept/russia/nami/a50-belka/

    And going down the Internet rabbit hole led me to this steam punk looking amphibious vehicle based on a GAZ M-20 Pobeda. This thing looks cool.
    https://es.rbth.com/technologias/84250-automovil-anfibio-8-ruedas

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  3. would love to see how those front doors opened

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    1. tilt front end. I could only find one lousy photo on google... and these photos are too damn pretty to ruin the post with any ugly one.

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  4. Here's an article in Russian with some great design drawings
    https://kalaputski.ru/16227-sovetskii-dizainer-iz-kuibysheva-kotorogo-zvali-v-italiyu-16-foto.html

    And another article with a really wild prototype in it
    https://snob.ru/selected/entry/68965/

    And here's the drivetrain layout
    https://www.xcom-hobby.ru/var/files/d0/90/5832152d090bd630817137

    I wonder why there's no color photos of the interior, or the doors open...

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