Bringing this old thread back to life, but hope it would be interesting.
Here is a picture of a 328 Touring Mille Miglia which is reported to be taken in USSR, supposedly in late forties. Man to the right from the car is Alexey Podkutov, taxi and racing driver and a proud owner of the car, which came to him in 1947, after it has been taken from Germany by Soviet army. Podkutov had some intentions of racing the car in USSR, but after a big accident with a captured Auto Union car in summer 1948, when 18 people were killed during a record attempt, in winter that same year racing foreign machinery was prohibited, and Podkutov used this car at least to drive to the races and back. To be more precise, the text (
http://avtomir.com/c...andparent/4701/) says he didn't use this car in all-Soviet competitions, so there is still a tiny possibility that the car could have been raced somewhere during 1947-1948, although these are only my thoughts.
Interesting that it still has racing numbers (#15, just like during this Brasov race! - thanks to Uechtel for pointing my attention to this), and in case it was not raced it seems twice interesting. So, what you think, could this picture be taken in Romania in 1940 (I don't know Podkutov's face, but still the whole atmosphere like clothes, nature etc. looks rather Soviet for me) or maybe the racing numbers could just remain on the car after Brasov race? Did this machine race anywhere else after Brasov?
Edited by Alexander M, 05 November 2009 - 11:20.