DUSHANBE, April 10, 2013, Asia-Plus — The first auto retro exhibition,
Dushanbe Auto Retro
, is expected to take place in Dushanbe on April 21. The event is dedicated to the Capital City Day, which is celebrated in Tajikistan on the third Saturday of April.
“Retro car parade will start in the center of city and end at the ring road near Boghi Poytakht,” Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office told Asia-Plus in an interview.
More than 70 retro cars and motorcycles manufactured from 1931 to 1970 are expected to participate in the parade.
The exhibition is supposed to feature such legends on wheels as the GAZ-M20 “Pobeda” (a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1946 until 1958), ZIM-12 (a Soviet limousine manufactured by GAZ from 1950 till 1960), Chaika M-13 (a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union made by GAZ; it was manufactured from 1959 till 1981), GAZ M21 Volga (a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ from 1956 until 1972), GAZ-24 Volga (an automobile manufactured by GAZ from 1968 to 1985), several models of Moskvitch (an automobile brand from Russia produced by AZLK from 1945 to 1991), Zaporozhets (it was known as the “hunchback” because of its aesthetically challenged silhouette), several models of Zhiguli (a passenger car manufactured by AvtoVAZ and introduced in 1970), Opel Admiral (a luxury car made by the German car manufacturer Opel from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1964 to 1977), and Ford GPA (an amphibious version of the WWII Ford GPW Jeep). Besides, several retro motorcycles will participate in the parade.
Artyom Geivandov, representative of the Initiative Group of fans of retro cars, says that all those vehicles were restored by professional restorers and collectors according to all the rules.
