After decades of searching for the 1951 model it was saved and now is on public display in a private museum in Otrebusy, central Poland.
Co-founder of the museum Zbigniew Mikiciuk said: “We are extremely proud because now we count among the very few people in the world who have retrieved the very first vehicles of the series made in their countries.
“We have been doing this for more than 50 years and we are not collecting cars you can see in the street but cars that have their history, their soul and their legend,”Poland It's original colour has been covered up with a specific shade of brown that was deemed particularly fashionable in the 1970s.It's had a few scrapes but the museum has decided to keep the marks visible so to preserve the vehicles authenticity.However Soviet leaders wanted to cut ties with a Western company during the Cold war and ordered for the production to be based on the Soviet Union's cars.
It was first given to Soviet army marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky who was Poland's defense minister after the war. After many years it was discovered to be owned by the family of Finnish rally car driver Rauno Aaltonen.Now the vehicle joins a succession of valuable cars in the museum, many of which have their own story.
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