BEg2 chapter 15 Igor’s Limo

[Michael Bailey]

“Maxine notices a Cyrillic bumper sticker, which as she is shortly to learn
reads MY OTHER LIMO IS A MAYBACH, for this vehicle here turns out,
actually, to be a ZiL-41047, brought over piece by piece from Russia,
reassembled in Brooklyn, and belonging to Igor….”


https://youtu.be/DfcyUecHcVE
Nice bkgd music!

https://1cars.org/10425-zil-41047-specifications-modifications-photo-video-review.html

“The Russian design team chose a different way – they decided to weld an
armored capsule, and then to build a car around it! Such a device is not
completely suitable for mass production, in connection with this, only 25
such armored capsules were made at the Kurgan plant. Of these, 5 were
designed for fire tests. This unique machine of the Likhachev plant has a
maximum degree of safety.”


Produced in very small numbers for the highest officials / oligarchs.  Igor
is a big shot.


ZIL - auto manufacturing plant near Moscow started in 1916 now defunct,
demolished & per Wikipedia slated to be a real estate development site for
LSR, huge construction conglomerate.