Originally Posted by tbomachines

Btw this is what the design is based on. Pics are mine, from (an excellent but now defunct) a car museum in Vegas somewhere around 10 years ago. This was Mao's actual limo, but they did export them to my knowledge. This model was discontinued in 81 per wiki.

I knew i saw it somewhere, was thinking a GAZ chaika or one of those soviet cars, but this is it (and obviously the lineage makes more sense)