Riga Bilmuseum Brezhnev

Their finest piece is probably the preserved wreckage of Leonid Brezhnev’s beloved Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. (Apparently there was a sad lack of Rolls Royce repair shops in Soviet Moscow.) Brezhnev had a passion for high end cars, typically gifts from foreign governments, and for driving them at speed. In 1980 he disastrously pranged the Rolls Royce. The exhibit has a touching reconstruction, including an authentically equipped Soviet motorcycle cop and an authentically wooden-looking Brezhnev.