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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Comrade Clippers and Bourgeois ZILs

Posted October 14, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

"One of the most fascinating aspects of the economic history of our time is the role played by the capitalist system in support of the communist system. Unfortunately for us and for posterity, the story of this strange symbiotic relationship never will be fully told. One has to scratch hard, therefore, to retrace some of the steps which have led from the Packard factory in Detroit to the Stalin factory in Moscow and the vast Gorki works on the Volga."

Classic car enthusiasts know there was some sort of link between Packard and ZIS/ZIL – postwar ZIS-110s looked like near-perfect copies of pre-war Packards, as did later ZIL/Chaikas resemble later Packard Clippers. Or was there some sort of link? Griff Borgeson wrote on the topic in the pre-glasnost SIA #55, February 1980, and comes away with evidence, but no solid conclusions.

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phoenix911 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 23197 Good Answers: 417	#1 Re: Comrade Clippers and Bourgeois ZILs 10/15/2009 10:36 AM
	I would look under Sidney Reilly this was maybe after that period, I think he died in the mid 1930's but it sounds like smething he'd be into. I know (read) he had connectons with Henry Ford and had ties to Russia. __________________ “ When people get what they want, they are often surprised when they get what they deserve " - James Wood
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ronseto Guru Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancleave, Ms about 30 miles inland from Biloxi and the coast Posts: 3197 Good Answers: 105	#2 Re: Comrade Clippers and Bourgeois ZILs 10/15/2009 12:32 PM
	It had always been my understanding that Packard had sold the dies to Russia. Whether true or not, I don't know or really care. __________________ Mr.Ron from South Ms.
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