As a role model for ZIS-112 partly served “dream car” Buick LeSabre ’51, first presented at the “Motorama” show in the USA. Being later described in numerous technical magazines, it has inspired the gifted designer Valentin Rostkov, who developed the design and overall arrangement of Soviet analog.
However, ZIS-112 was not the exact replica of Buick. Having borrowed from him the main feature, “jet” body with the air intake in front, it had a great personality: enormous, almost six meters long, with o-shaped radiator grill and single headlight. By the way, due to this single headlight the car was nicknamed “Cyclops”. In accordance with the order of the ZIS factory director two cars were put into production.
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