Story of the exhibit

An export version built for the Swedish market. The donor Tõnu Piibur on the car's life and how it came to the Old Tech Park: "Here in our modest creative association "Kuusalu Autobaas" the house rules say that, in principle, one should not bother with cars of fewer than 7 seats or less than so many 'whatsits', at least not in this life. But I am a Mosse (Moskvitch) admirer pushed back into the closet by the public's negative attitude. I have to live a double life. In short, our comrade Column Chief's own sister had a 1967 Moskvitch 408 made for the working classes of the Kingdom of Sweden – no Elite, but a dark red model crowned with simplicity. As the Mosse is generally looked down on here, it was given away about a year ago to a certain comrade Toomas, who has several more Moskvitches but is openly out of the closet. He even drives them on the street, yet even there a family row broke out once the gift Mosse had stood for a year right in front of the house, in place of the peony bed. Hearing of a chance to solve a family problem, I looked the gift horse in the mouth and brought the car back to the base. Meanwhile one tyre had gone flat and the battery had died. I thought I'd see if it would start, as one could take part in the Classic Car Winter Rally with it. Luckily I had just taken a handful of 'anti-classic-car pills' and managed to overcome myself. Under the shaming looks of my comrades, I dragged the beautiful car back onto the trailer and we took it to the Old Tech Park. In the end I felt relieved. I was even a little proud of myself for managing to give up a classic car, so much so that I didn't even fix the tyre in the meantime. Afterwards everyone praised me for being so good and responding so well to the old-machinery withdrawal treatment. Many thanks to the Old Tech Park for the psychosocial rehabilitation!"