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Old 09-26-2018, 06:35 PM
Oleg Zubkov Oleg Zubkov is offline
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I know the sixth special ZIL shop pretty well . When I was just starting to get acquainted with the restoration of classic cars , I tried to get there . It was about 12 years ago, and things weren't very good there . The former Moscow mayor supported the life of the plant with financial injections and municipal orders , but the result was bad . By that time , the low wages of workers and specialists, and the abuse of leadership, along with the low quality of the main products-commercial vehicles have already made ZIL a relic in the market. In fact, the plant employed semi-pensioners and veterans who were expecting a quick retirement, and people from Central Asia . (Note that the cemetery of ideas called ZIL and my neighbor-an engineer who worked there 20 years earlier, in the late eighties . Even then, he said that working in the Bureau, whose projects are unlikely to be implemented , psychologically difficult . At home he drew a limousine in the style of Toyota crown))), the plant is compared with a dinosaur . ) It was a very charming dinosaur ... Central factory alley reminded me of the passage Through the valley of the Tombs in Egypt. It seemed enough to know the secret word and the shadow of the thirties will return . If I had enough money, it would have been possible to release a copy of Packard in the early 30s .A friend of mine who got rich in construction thought so , too , but might as well kick a dead horse ... When at the end of the Millenial plant lost the competition for a small party of ceremonial phaetons to competitors from Nizhny Novgorod , from the GAZ group , and soon the mayor of Moscow was replaced , it became the inevitable end . Moscow developers have long looked greedily at two square kilometers on the river almost in the city center . The sixth workshop stands today, it is rented together with equipment specializing in the restoration of old ZIS and ZIL small company . I'm not too fond of , sometimes I'll check with the factory administration ,when you can pick up 3 Eckold machine like a vulture circling prey is still alive )) the Central alley is no more. They build residential and business buildings there . The final defeat is scheduled for 2022 . I hope to pull out a press Dualform 9 . The only difficulty of non-financial nature is that this toy weighs 160 tons ( . P.S. The Tour is possible in principle , for me it is a return to legends of my youth, and not too jolly place .
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