In a message dated 95-06-20 12:05:14 EDT, you write:

>On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Joel Walker wrote:
>
>> it was a russian copycat van. it's called a Babushka (made by the laid-off
>> workers from the MiG factories near Mokba) ...it runs on vodka. Biiiggggg
>> fuel tank.
>>
>> [...]
>> 
>> <it's a Joke! get it! a Joke!!>
>
>Of course.  It had to be a joke... what sane Russian would let vodka be 
>used as fuel?

In '74, a Mig-25 pilot defected to Japan (closest airbase); I can't remember
his name, but in the book he wrote he stated many Soviet utility vehicles at
his airfield were inoperative because workers had drained the anti-freeze, to
drink!

'82 Diesel Vanagon