In a message dated 95-06-20 12:05:14 EDT, you write: >On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Joel Walker wrote: > >> it was a russian copycat van. it's called a Babushka (made by the laid-off >> workers from the MiG factories near Mokba) ...it runs on vodka. Biiiggggg >> fuel tank. >> >> [...] >> >> <it's a Joke! get it! a Joke!!> > >Of course. It had to be a joke... what sane Russian would let vodka be >used as fuel? In '74, a Mig-25 pilot defected to Japan (closest airbase); I can't remember his name, but in the book he wrote he stated many Soviet utility vehicles at his airfield were inoperative because workers had drained the anti-freeze, to drink! '82 Diesel Vanagon
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