Made in USSR: which Hollywood stars own Soviet cars

A couple of years ago, actor Tom Hanks on his Instagram page published a photo of the car he bought then - the passenger-and-freight UAZ-452, popularly nicknamed the “Loaf”. Hanks is not the only famous American in whose garage is the product of the Soviet automobile industry.

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«RBC Style"Found out what other samples of the Soviet automobile industry ended up in celebrity garages.

Tom Hanks - UAZ-452 “Loaf”

American actor Tom Hanks published a photo of an all-wheel drive utility vehicle UAZ-452 or simply "Loafs", as the car was nicknamed in the USSR. “I have a new truck. And I’m going on a trip on it, ”Hanks left a laconic signature. True, it is not clear to the end whether the actor purchased a car.

Nevertheless, users of the social network hastened to congratulate the actor on the purchase and left dozens of comic comments, such as “Run Forrest, run!” And “The main thing is not to leave the service.” UAZ-452 is the oldest Russian car by the number of years of production. The first Loafs rolled off the assembly line in 1965. The car got such a nickname because of the resemblance to a loaf of bread. And in February 2016, the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant began to produce an updated version of the Soviet car.

Brad Pitt - Ural Motorcycle

Photo: video frame YouTube / Ministry of Transport. REN TV

In the garage of Brad Pitt a few years ago, the Ural Tourist motorcycle "registered". The actor purchased a three-wheeled vehicle as standard and did not leave it idle. On a Russian motorcycle, Pitt drives around California, and rides his children in a stroller. They began to call Ural motorcycles manufactured by the Irbit factory with the M-62 model, which first rolled off the assembly line in the 1961 year. And the modification "Tourist", the owner of which became a famous actor, went into mass production in 1991 year. It is curious that only about 5% of Urals today goes on sale in the domestic market. And the rest of the motorcycles are exported.

Last December, Bloomberg published a ranking of the best 2016 luxury vehicles of the year. Only one motorcycle entered it - it turned out to be the Ural Sahara, the cost of which in the USA starts from $ 17999. “When I rode a motorcycle around New York, I was confused by only one point: the Urals look like Soviet. But can anyone be offended by his communist aesthetics? Especially given the lack of connection between the brand and this political theory. Not. But dozens of people asked me to give them a ride on this motorcycle, ”Hannah Elliot, a journalist of the publication, assessed Ural.

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Jay Leno - GAZ-21 Volga

Photo: video frame YouTube / Z Drive

The American actor, TV presenter and concurrently a major collector of cars Jay Leno in 2013 became the owner of the Soviet GAZ-21 sedan. Leno brought the Volga 1966 of the year of production with original Made in USSR tires to California. And then he arranged for her a test drive. GAZ-21, which Leno christened the KGB machine, which took Soviet citizens to the Lubyanka at night, the actor called "slow and simple, like a screwdriver." And he suggested that the engine of this car was borrowed from agricultural machinery. But in general, he concluded that this is a "good" example of the Soviet automobile industry with strong paint, a roomy trunk and a cute deer on the hood.

James Hetfield - K-750 Motorcycle

Photo: frame from the film “Beware of the Car”, YouTube/Mosfilm Cinema Concern

In the 2016 year, the frontman garage of Metallica band James Hetfield was replenished with a rare instance - the Soviet K-750 motorcycle, the release of which began in the 1958 year. K-750 with a stroller was widely used as patrol transport by the Soviet police and even starred in Eldar Ryazanov’s film “Watch Out for the Car”. James Hetfield received a motorcycle as a gift from a Russian fan. Almost a year was spent on restoring the model from the "pile of scrap metal." Motorcycle parts were searched both in Russia (in Rostov and Orenburg villages), and in Poland, and some of them had to be done from scratch according to the drawings. After the restoration, K-750 drove more than 10 thousand km to San Francisco, where it was presented to James Hetfield.

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