What endeared me to Rambler wagons was this account in the January 1958 issue of Popular Science. As a 12-year old, I was pop-eyed reading all of this. Apparently, they were among the first western journalists allowed to drive into the Soviet Union, in a Belgian registered 1957 Rambler. Fascinating story through American eyes and written just as the first Sputnik was launched in October 1957. The car drew huge crowds, with Russian officials asking then to park it out of sight. A militiaman approached the crowd in Kursk: "Comrades, don't just stand here looking at this car. You have work to do, and you children should be going to school. Move on." Apparently nobody budged. They were beaten by a month or so by other journos taking an F-Series Vauxhall Victor to Moscow. Things rapidly changed as I was encouraged to drive through with a mate in a Wolseley 1500 only 14 years later.