Earlier this year the Louwman Museum in the Netherlands did what even Toyota couldn’t do – locate and purchase an example of the company’s first car, the pre-war Toyoda Model AA. The story of how it survived in a single family’s ownership in Russia, as presented by Toyota’s UK operations, is worth checking out.
* The other big news related to vehicles from Russia as of late? As Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked reported, Renault has confirmed plans to revive the Moskvitch brand, which went bankrupt in 2006.
* Just because we had another recent Russian vehicle story in our bookmarks, here’s the rundown on the GAZ GL-1 hot rod, as related by RodAuthority.
* As that last story proves, if there’s any common ground to car guys across the globe, it’s that we can’t resist tinkering. Take, for instance, the Boeing turbine-powered Thunderbird that Ford built in the early 1950s, as described by Patrick Smith.
* Finally, Bruce Thomson’s search for a vintage car, which he illustrated on his blog, Kicking Vintage Tyres, and which we noted back in January, has come to an end. Congrats, Bruce!
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