re: #85 WindUpBird

There’s a Pontiac Eight in my complex. It’s got awesome custom pinstriping and the license plate reads MOBSTR :D

Beautiful!

It’s not the car’s fault of course, but Pontiacs were a firm favorite of Joseph Stalin and his henchmen.
When aircraft designer Alexander Yakovlev was awarded the Stalin prize in 1940, it came with 100K Rubles, a gold medal, a nice dacha near Moscow, and a Pontiac Silver Chief. Later, Yakovlev used the Pontiac to flee to the Urals ahead of the advancing German army in 1941, though in fact the Germans never quite reached Moscow.