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American old cars from Romania


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Guest claudiu1988

I love american old cars, I have a 1937 Dodge waiting to be restored. In the 30's and 40's there were a lot of american cars in Romania, and still today we can find such cars, but not in a very good shape, a lot of them are brutally modified because much of these old cars retiered in the 70's and 80's. In the comunist regime you couldn't find spare parts so you had to improvize, so that is why a lot of cars have russian or romanian engines. So this is a short history. Now let's put photos whit the cars.

The first car is my 1937 dodge, bruttaly modified in the 70's, Volga Gaz 21 engine, rear axle, rims, steering wheel, clutch etc.

First I will post the unrestord cars, then I will post the restord ones.

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1936 Chevy, the car is in good shape, has a romanian engine, the owner still has the original engine, the car has horrible rear lights from a romanian car.

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Guest Silverghost

Very interesting photos !

The old American cars in Cuba are mostly of similar construction now with Soviet-built cold war era engines.

They have also cobbled together many old 50s US-built autos

The Cubans also try to fabricate their own replacment parts where needed...

Most here in the USA think that the old American cars still operating in Cuba are 100% original~

Not So !

I guess you gotta to do what you have to do to keep these old cars on the road if you cannot find the proper replacment parts !

Keep the photos comming !

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Very interesting !

The American cars in Cuba are also cobbled together with old soviet-built engines and other Cuban hand fabricated parts.

Most folks in the USA think they are still 100% original... Not so !

I guess you've gotta do whatever you can to keep them on the road !

Keep those geat photos comming !

I will post all the photos I have with american cars. Yes in Cuba this cars still run today, but in Romania these cars stoped runing in the 70's and 80's when romania started to produce it's own cars "Dacia" "Aro" "IMS" "TV". We aslo imported other cars like Vw beetle, Wartburg, Volga, etc. Now moast of them stay in back yards and rust.

In those days people had to do major changes to cars to keep them runing.

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1939 Dodge, has a Molotov engine, clutch, and axles, the dash is from a Volga.

The car is sitting from the 70's in the same spot, the owner paints it once evrey 2-3 years.

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Excellent! Thanks for posting these!

You would never have imagined there would be so many American cars (pre-war) that would still be over there and not crushed or recycled since the 50's! I like the guy that keeps painting his to preserve it but had diamond plate runningboards! There seems to be a "thing" for LARGE taillights over there too! I guess you have to use what you can find. At least the rest of the car will survive!

Claudiu, in covering the search for parts for your car, you have run across a treasure trove of other American cars! You will eventually get to know where they ALL are!

Keep the photos coming. I can hardly wait to see some of the "restored" ones!

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Excellent! Thanks for posting these!

You would never have imagined there would be so many American cars (pre-war) that would still be over there and not crushed or recycled since the 50's! I like the guy that keeps painting his to preserve it but had diamond plate runningboards! I guess you have to use what you can find. At least the rest of the car will survive!

Keep the photos coming. I can hardly wait to see some of the "restored" ones!

Ditto.........

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It's a little surprising most of these cars are Chrysler products. In the US Ford and General Motors cars were more popular.

Did Chrysler have a really good dealer in Romania or did the Chrysler products survive where the others were scrapped?

Hi "Rusty",

I am pretty sure there is a disproportionate number of photos here of Chrysler Products because "Claudiu" is working on finding parts to restore his '37 Dodge. As he traveled around his area he was finding and collecting many photos of Chrysler Product cars and wanted to post some of them for the enjoyment of the Chrysler Product fans out there. It is sort of amazing the number of these cars he has run across in Romania! He just didn't want to clutter up his earlier post with sort of un-necessary info and thought this would be an interesting series of posts so he started a second thread.

Later! ;)

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I posted first like 1936 D2 said the chrysler cars because I have much more pictures whit them, there are a lot of Ford cars in Romania, we also had a Ford factory here from 1935 to 1940.

Here is a 1936 Dodge.

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I wish I knew what the build plates on the Chevrolets, and I guess the Chrysler cars, say. I am not aware of any Romanian assembly plant though there was a private company assembler in Poland 1937-1939. Before the war Ford of Britain had a Romanian subsidiary and supplied cars, possibly including US-sourced as well as UK cars.

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