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Photo Gallery «Big visit to OMMMA - I was there too»

Name: GAZ M-21 Wolga 1963
Brand: GAZ

Two puns in one headline. The first is quickly explained: on August 26, 2023, friends of old Ostautos met in the Elbauenpark in Magdeburg for the 24th OMMMA, the Ost-Mobil-Meeting Magdeburg. The organizing IFA-Freunde Sachsen-Anhalt e. V. was highly satisfied with the participation of classic car enthusiasts and the public. We were there too, of course, and explain the second pun in the following article.

AWZ P 70 Coupé (1957) was hidden away on the parts market. In contrast to the sedan and station wagon, the coupé had a sheet steel body - OMMMA 2023

AWZ P 70 station wagon (1956), the predecessor of the Trabbi. This was the start of the Duroplast body - OMMMA 2023

DFZ 632 industrial tractor (1973) for internal freight transport. V2 or V4 diesels were manufactured in a modular system. This one was inventoried at the Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow - OMMMA 2023

DUO 4 (1972) , designed as a motorized patient elevator. Who said C1 now? - OMMMA 2023

DUO 4 (1972) , basically a swallow with something screwed to the right - OMMMA 2023

GAZ 13 Chaika (1977) , the Americans couldn't do more chrome either - OMMMA 2023

GAZ 13 Tschaika (1977) , said to have been on the road for the GDR Council of Ministers - OMMMA 2023

GAZ 24 Volga (1984) , late model with the chrome grille - OMMMA 2023

GAZ 24 Volga (1984) , straightforward technology with plenty of space for screwing - OMMMA 2023

GAZ M-21 Volga (1963) , same model, different vehicle. This one with Russian license plate and all kinds of bling-bling under the hood - OMMMA 2023

GAZ M-21 Volga (1963) , Radiator mascot - OMMMA 2023

GAZ M-21 Volga (1963) , was often used as a cab or government vehicle - OMMMA 2023

IFA F8 Cabriolet Gläser (1953), there was a somewhat more "elegant" convertible variant of the F8 from the Dresden body factory, primarily for export - OMMMA 2023

IFA F8 station wagon (1950), nobody called it "Woody" during its lifetime. it was simply called "station wagon with wooden planking" - OMMMA 2023

IFA G5 (1952) , stylish camping train for the rough stuff - OMMMA 2023

IFA G5 (1952) , if it really can't go on without shovels - OMMMA 2023

IFA P3 (1962) , light military off-road vehicle from an independent GDR development. The engine is basically the same as in the Sachenring P240. This is why it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Horch P3 - OMMMA 2023

Isch 2715 (1982) , suggests that the designers may have been fans of the Range Rover - OMMMA 2023

Two, as they say in the region, "dog catchers" of their era: the IFA is certainly better known and more widespread in this country than the Isch - OMMMA 2023

Lada 2103 (1985), in a discreet dark blue, so inconspicuous that it stood out again. It was usually used by the police, the CID or the Ministry for State Security - OMMMA 2023

Lada 2104 Niva (1980) , well preserved early Niva with long journey. Note the headlight wipers - OMMMA 2023

Away from all the screwing around: specialist literature for focusing on the essentials - OMMMA 2023

Sit down and sort out the bones: There may be more comfortable touring carriages than the Robur flatbed. What don't you do for a stylish appearance? - OMMMA 2023

Let someone else say that the Zaporozhets 968 is a rarity - OMMMA 2023

The Elbauenpark in Magdeburg, a wonderful location for this event - OMMMA 2023

As always, fiction and truth are close together - OMMMA 2023

These campers have really thought of everything at OMMMA 2023 - OMMMA 2023

DKW-Imosa F1000 - definitely not an East German sheet metal, but a real rarity as a transporter on the parts market. This vehicle is an expression of the eventful history of the Auto-Union in the 60s - OMMMA 2023

An early Lada Niva in an unusually elegant two-tone paint job - OMMMA 2023

There was a lot to transport in the GDR - no matter what, no matter with what - OMMMA 2023

It wasn't quite so colorful back then: Barkas B1000 in blue metallic, Trabant P50 in rich blue, original green Trabant 601 very low and another very pink Trabant 601 - OMMMA 2023

Heroes of labor in front of the lake stage in the Elbauenpark - OMMMA 2023

IFA W50, Trabbi and Moskwitch. If the Trabbi wasn't so low, the picture could also be from the late 70s - OMMMA 2023

Lada 2103, Lada 2106 and Trabant 601 in the best vintage car weather in the Elbauenpark - OMMMA 2023

Legends: Jawa grandpa Willfried Bahnemann is still regularly on the road on his 1958 Jawa 350 at the age of 87 - OMMMA 2023

Truck fans definitely got their money's worth: IFA L60 in a double pack, Tatra, various Robur - and here is just the "tip of the iceberg" - OMMMA 2023

You don't necessarily have to take photos to capture images - OMMMA 2023

New record: The organizer reports over 2000 participating vehicles - OMMMA 2023

There are also bus-based motorhomes "in the East", here a motorhome on a Robur bus. Strange: "Hasseröder" is written on the huge coffee machine - OMMMA 2023

Beautiful backs: There were plenty of IFA F8 convertibles on show - OMMMA 2023

Heavy traffic: an IFA S4000-1 flanked by two IFA L60s - OMMMA 2023

Assortment strictly subdivided according to product groups - OMMMA 2023

Parts market, here the specialist department for Christmas fairy tales - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 with roof tent. Wolfgang Stumph called it the "Pension Sachsenhof" in "Go Trabbi, go" - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 with original roof load - OMMMA 2023

Two Wartburg 312: same model, different lines - OMMMA 2023

Lada 1500 station wagon (1984) , fully restored in better than new condition - OMMMA 2023

Lada 1500 station wagon (1984) , also here better than new: dashboard converted to that of the 2106 - OMMMA 2023

Lada 1500 station wagon (1984) , fixing up the technology causes rather minor problems - OMMMA 2023

LuAZ 967 (1975) , intended for the transportation of casualties in the front lines and could also be driven horizontally - OMMMA 2023

Melkus RS 1000 (1975) , Heinz Melkus built 101 of these dream sports cars with Wartburg technology under difficult circumstances in the 70s - OMMMA 2023

Melkus RS 1000 (1975) , such a sporty, Spartan steering wheel in real existing socialism. Speedometer scale end value 250 - OMMMA 2023

Melkus RS 1000 (1975) , even if half the car is folded up at the back: most of the work is done on the knees. Wartburg engine and gearbox in classic mid-engine position - OMMMA 2023

Moskwitsch 407 (1963) , one of the last 407s in great condition. The mirror bridge made of aluminum for the caravan train operation comes from GDR production - OMMMA 2023

Moskwitsch 407 (1963) , lots of chrome for a "mid-range car". The red star must not be missing - OMMMA 2023

Phänomen Garant (1968) , now in service at the Magdeburg Museum of Technology. Initially in a brewery in Staßfurt. Family "ties" outlived the times - OMMMA 2023

Polski Fiat 125p station wagon (1986) , lovingly restored, rare station wagon. One of the colors found on the vehicle by the current owner was blue, which he then decided on - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 station wagon (1957) exclusively in blue and white and exclusively for the German Television of the GDR, some station wagon models were also produced - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 Paradecabrio (1958) , only 4 units are said to have been built. This one bears the number 3-58 and is therefore probably the third model built - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 (1956) , in the short construction period there were some changes to the radiator grille, indicators and hood figure - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 (1957) , a big car with big ambitions. The ambitions were greater than the possibilities. Only 1382 were built between 1956 and 1959 - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 (1957) , presented to Walter Ulbricht in 1954 as the Horch P240, but had to be renamed in 1957. The Auto Union had sued for infringement of the naming rights - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 (1957) , this steering wheel with the Zwickau city coat of arms was mostly cranked on behalf of the state - OMMMA 2023

Sachsenring P 240 (1957) , the 2.4-liter inline six-cylinder engine was also used in the IFA P3 - OMMMA 2023

Saporochez 968 (1977) , only fourth hand, extensively restored a long time ago and lovingly maintained - OMMMA 2023

Zaporozhets 965 (1960) , obviously inspired by the Fiat 600, a small car developed by Moskvich - OMMMA 2023

Zaporozhets 965 (1960) , small car, big wheels: the 13-inch wheels made good progress even on bad roads - OMMMA 2023

Zaporozhets 965 (1960) , a 2-cylinder was discarded while still in development. The air-cooled V4 coped reasonably well with the small car, but was considered thermally sensitive - OMMMA 2023

Zaporozhets 968 M (1979) , later Sapo, in which all kinds of plastic parts led to a 40 kg reduction in weight - OMMMA 2023

Zaporozhets 968 (1977) , air-cooled V4 engine. This engine is above all compact. Everything else depends on the owner's affection and, above all, attention - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 110 R (1975) with giant wings and scale cover over the rear window. Wheels, exhaust - everything fits - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 110 R (1975) , contemporary tuned it looks much faster than it is - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 130 RS (1975) , quite successful in rallying - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 130 RS (1975) , serious racing base. Here even converted to a really wide rear, which provides much more air for the tires - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 130 RS (1975) , tires and suspension still need some work - OMMMA 2023

Skoda 1000 MB (1964), a very popular vehicle in the GDR, here with contemporary license plates. Some people drove all year round with a bag of cement in the front trunk to reduce the susceptibility to crosswinds - OMMMA 2023

Tatra 603 (1963) , a model of the second series. The earlier ones with 3 headlights were considered slightly better aerodynamically - OMMMA 2023

Tatra 603 (1963) , air-cooled V8 in the rear. The two blowers are belt-driven from the crankshaft - OMMMA 2023

Tatra 603 (1963) , Streamline and eight-cylinder brought important speed gains in the construction of socialism - OMMMA 2023

Tatra 613 (1973) , somewhat patinated "Bonzenschleuder" with witnessed Politburo past - OMMMA 2023

Tatra 813 8x8 (1967) , often used at off-road truck sporting events. The positive camber is due to a somewhat special chassis design with a central tubular frame and swing axles - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 1.1 (1990) , completely inconspicuously lined up, here is a late Trabbi, already with the Polo engine, in "better-than-new condition" - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 600 (1962) , rather rare intermediate model - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 600 (1962) , still with the round nose, but already with 600 cc - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 Cabrio () , the Trabant did not exist as a convertible when it was built, apart from the Volksarmee-Kübel. Here is a subsequently opened vehicle. From 1993, the Ostermann company sold around 1000 conversion kits - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 Universal (1982) , most estate Trabants had a hard life in the GDR: there was always something to build. This one passes as a well-maintained annual car - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 Universal (1982) , would certainly be good if this co-driver only did his job after arriving at the finish line - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 () , franked like this, it should also be carried by the post office - OMMMA 2023

Trabant 601 () Philatelists of all countries... - OMMMA 2023

Ural 4320 () , with living cabin. When arriving is more important than economy - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 312 Cabrio () , tone on tone with the Dübener Ei. An eye-catcher, this car and trailer - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 312 Cabrio (1966) , the two-tone paintwork may irritate originality fanatics - but it suits the car. The owner still has a similarly painted IFA F8 - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 312 Cabrio (1966) , a correct emblem is a matter of honor - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 312 Cabrio (1966) , a lot of work and love went into it - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 312 Camping (1966) , took the chassis without lubrication points from the more angular 353, but for many classic car enthusiasts it is the more beautiful car than the angular successor - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 353 400 Kübelwagen (1970) , Eight were built, including two prototypes. Intended for forestry use, it was not released for production - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 353 400 Kübelwagen (1970) , the owners of the few vehicles then had this view. It was used for hunting purposes by some party leaders - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 353 400 Kübelwagen (1970) , What's that exotic thing pulling up? - OMMMA 2023

Wartburg 353 () , year of manufacture uncertain, but of secondary importance for a seriously used rally car anyway - OMMMA 2023