Kim Jong Il Funeral Limos THE EPITOME of Capitalist Excess: ‘75 Lincoln Continental A number of news reports coming out of North Korea today purport the American-looking cars at the head of the Kim Jong Il funeral procession to be ‘Russian limos’… but the first point of note would be that such cars were only manufactured in the Soviet era: the GAZ Chaika has been out of production for decades, and ZiLonly recently made/restored a single old-style limousine to custom Kremlin order- an open parade-car looking nothing like the car above.

Kim Jong Il Funeral Limos THE EPITOME of Capitalist Excess: ‘75 Lincoln Continental

A number of news reports coming out of North Korea today purport the American-looking cars at the head of the Kim Jong Il funeral procession to be ‘Russian limos’… but the first point of note would be that such cars were only manufactured in the Soviet era: the GAZ Chaika has been out of production for decades, and ZiLonly recently made/restored a single old-style limousine to custom Kremlin order- an open parade-car looking nothing like the car above.

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