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RedPatrol Red Patrol is the ultimate way of discovering Bucharest by riding a fully restored Romanian vintage car from the 80’s!

The Red Patrol Tours offers you the rare opportunity to explore Bucharest from behind the wheel of an authentic Romanian car-Dacia 1300/1310- made in the 80’s ! Take your companions and get ready to discover the city landmarks and life stories of Romanians from the last 100 years in a panoramic hop on hop off city tour!

01/04/2025

☭Gasoline rationalizing to 20 or 40L a month per car (depending on the city) that started from 1979 shattered the dream of Romanians to travel around the country by car.
⛽For a family living in Bucharest, a trip with a Dacia to the Northern part of the country or to the Black Sea needed above 120 liters of gasoline.
❓How did Romanians succeed to manage this? Saving the monthly ratio of gasoline in metallic tanks. Or buying it from the black market from time and transporting it with their car during the journey, also in 20 L metallic tanks .
⛽⛽ A lot of educational materials printed in those year aimed to discourage manual filling of car tank from small metallic gasoline tanks. Transportation of gasoline in the car trunks during the journeys was presented unsafe and not legal.
💥Romanians managed amazingly well and safe their trips with a lot of black market gasoline carried on the back of their cars, since we never found out to nowadays about cars getting in flames on the roads of Socialist Romania!
Hear the stories of Romanians at the RedPatrol tour with Dacia!

30/03/2025

🎞️The start of a winter Dacia driving tour caught on film by one of our Australian guests.
⭐Thank you guys, you were really great!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Credits- Joel Grunstein

28/03/2025

🗳📅🗳On this day in 1974 the Great National Assembly of Romania suddenly created the position of President of the Socialist Republic for Nicolae Ceaușescu. He got this new position with an unanimous vote.
☭👑Ceauşescu gave himself the „Presidential scepter" - a hilarious reiteration of a monarchic symbol!
👨‍🎨Salvador Dali, the great artist realized the absurdity of the situation and wrote a mocking telegram to Ceauşescu in which he said: „I deeply appreciated your historic approach to setting up the Presidential scepter. Sincerely, Salvador Dali”.
📅The State Propaganda couldn’t sense the irony and published the telegram on the first page of the Party's newspaper!
🚗 Find out more stories about the rise of Nicolae Ceausescu from a poor child from a small village of Romania into the most powerful person from Romania at The Fabulous Life of Ceausescu tour with Dacia!
https://bit.ly/TheFabulosLifeOfCeausescu

26/03/2025

🧒Travelling back in time to my childhood, I remember my father’s orange Dacia connected with all my holiday trips from the 70’s and 80’s.
🚗Travelling with our orange Dacia car during the summer holidays from Satu Mare to Constanța, to the Black Sea - the gasoline was limited to 40 l/month - was a real escape from the communist ordinary days because we were doing everything that communism forbidden us officially: listening to international music like Boney M, Baccara sisters or ABBA on the tape player of the Dacia, having picnics nearby the forest when crossing the mountains serving “capitalist foods“ like “Salam de Sibiu “, “muschi tiganesc” , “cascaval “ or a bottle of Pepsi Cola that my parents struggled to get from the blak market.
👪Our orange Dacia was a part of our family. I consider that Dacia 1300/1310 is a genuine time capsule that every Romanian could take to re-visit his childhood memories even if he/she is in their 30’s of 40’s or 50’s.
❤️💛💙40 years later, in 2018 I reunited a few 80’s fully restored Dacias under the RedPatrol tour concept to share with Romanians and foreigners coming to Bucharest the unique experience of traveling back in time with a 35 years old car. And trust me, it’s a hell of a ride!
Șerban Cornaciu, 56 y.o. RedPatrol Founder.
Credits- TravelBadgers

24/03/2025

🍀𝐀 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨....𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲!
🚗In the 70s, Dacia was available on the spot. Options were credit, with payment over 3 years or with full payment. Thus, towards the 80s, Dacia became a status symbol for every Romanian family.
🚗Forcing exports to get more currency in the 80s led to directing only 20% of the Dacias produced to the working class, and waiting lists appeared. You could wait up to 5 years for a Dacia.
🚗The Romanian Lottery gave out Dacias as prizes monthly. This was the only way to by-pass the 5 year waiting list and get a much-coveted Dacia.
🚗At RedPatrol you can order a ride with a classic Dacia in just a few minutes for you and 2 friends, to try to understand why Dacia was so coveted by your parents and grandparents!
Find more here https://bit.ly/RomanianCarDrivingTour

22/03/2025

🌟Sharing the charm of the hidden stories and features of a Dacia 1300 from 1977 with our tour guests in the Revolution square!
A unique occasion to admire our veteran flaming red Letitia, its unique features and life story, sparking nostalgia and curiosity.
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20/03/2025

🧹Every spring during Communist times all the working people, students and pioneers were gathered by the Party and put to clean the streets and the parks of the city.
👦Pioneers usually had to clean the parks and the green area around the schools as well. The start of the work was given in uniforms and singing the Anthem…
🎒Anyway, it was one of the moments that children usually liked because they escaped learning and were able to stay a whole day in the park.
Hear the stories of the Romanians RedPatrol Tour with Dacia!

19/03/2025

A snapshot from a RedPatrol Communist Tour with Dacia start.
Letitia, our 1977 flaming star veteran car caught with our city guests from UK at the Revolution Square.

17/03/2025

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐖𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫!
🚗Our Dacia squad is ready to take you towards places where you'll meet a surreal world that will challenge your senses and emotions!
🏁The RedPatrol Flea Market Tour with Dacia departs every Saturday and Sunday at 9 PM to the city limits crossing the working-class bedroom quarters built in the 70's towards the city flea markets where surrealism meets history, art and rarities.
💎You will have an incredible shopping session of antiques: from China, porcelain dolls, coins, vintage toys, military communist stuff to watches and clock, all of them at a price of a bargain!
🏰A glorious coronation of this colorful trip will be the final stop at the Palace of Parliament where the story of this pharaonic city transformation project from the 80's will be revealed.
Expect just the unexpected!
https://bit.ly/flea_market_tour

13/03/2025

🎞️A film-snapshot from an effervescent driving tour we had with our guests from Australia.📷
Thank you guys for driving with us!
You were really great!
❤️💛💙
Credits - Joel Grunstein

11/03/2025

𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞: 𝐂𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐬̦𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮'𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬!
👑Hop into an iconic Dacia – the dream car of the '80s comrades – and uncover the jaw-dropping life of Nicolae Ceaușescu!
🚗This tour takes you on a panoramic journey through 5 key landmarks from his Era, revealing 5 unknown stories about his amazing life.
💎The grand finale? A visit to his lavish private residence, Primăverii Palace!
📆From Tuesday to Sunday, every week.
🕰️From 10.00.
💶Prices start at €97.
🤙Pick-up in Bucharest included.
🎟️Book your vintage Dacia adventure here https://bit.ly/TheFabulosLifeOfCeausescu

10/03/2025

This year we had the unique occasion to present Bucharest during an 80s Romanian typical winter in a typical Romanian car from the 80s.
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Michael with his friend explored the city fully covered with snow together with our lovely 1989 Domnica and here are his impressions.
Thank you very much , Michael, for touring with us!
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08/03/2025

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲!
🌹Today, we celebrate the spirit of determination and courage embodied by women around the world. For this we have in mind a Romanian film from the 80s that inspired millions: "Raliul" (1984), directed by Mircea Drăgan.
🏁Tasica Pribeag, a young woman dares to dream big in a Socialist Romania. She aspires to win a rally with Dacia car defying conventions and pushing boundaries. "Raliul" was seen by over 2 million people in Romania, helping to shift the perception of the Dacia as a reliable and capable car.
🏎️This film not only showcased the potential of Romanian automotive engineering but also highlighted the strength and ambition of women in a traditionally male-dominated field.
❤️On this International Women's Day, we pay tribute to all the women who have taken the wheel, breaking barriers and achieving greatness.
🌹Whether on the rally circuit or on everyday roads, their courage and determination inspire us all. Let's celebrate the women who drive change and push boundaries. Share your stories of women who inspire you in the comments below!

06/03/2025

𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧.
Or 30 years of car history.
Left or Right? 👈👉
Choose your favorite!
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04/03/2025

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟒, 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟕, 𝟐𝟏:𝟐𝟐: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠!
😱On that fateful night, a monstrous earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck Romania, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. In just 55 seconds, 33 buildings in Bucharest collapsed, claiming the lives of 1,424 innocent people and injuring over 11,300 across the country. The disaster left 35,000 families without homes, with damage estimated at a staggering 2 billion Euros in today's money!
🥂Nicolae Ceaușescu, returns immediately from a banquet in Nigeria when the news hit and he declared a state of emergency. But beneath the façade of a "Communist Father of the Nation," in Ceaușescu's mind a sinister plan- to reshape Bucharest into a communist utopia, bulldozing historic neighborhoods to build grandiose projects like the Palace of Parliament.
🏗️As Ceaușescu toured the ruins in his opulent German limousine, he ordered the rescue efforts to continue beyond the survival limit, but his real intention was to exploit the disaster for his own ideological ambitions.
🚧The earthquake became a catalyst for his brutal urban renewal, leaving Bucharest forever changed. Hear the stories of Romanians at the RedPatrol tour with Dacia! Credits- Andrei Pandele

02/03/2025

Domnica, our 1989 Mamaia Blue star caught on a winter day while graciously sliding with the tour guest from Great Britain.
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01/03/2025

❤️“Marţişorul” is an old Romanian custom coming from the pre-Christian Ages. On the 1st of March Women are given “mărţişoare”, consisting in small jewels or handmade items, tied with a cord in white and red that are worn for several days in order to bring good luck and prosperity.
🍀During the dark ages of Communism the chimney sweep "mărţişor" and the 4 leaf clover symbolized the belief in luck and prosperity for Romanians.
Hear the stories of Romanians at the RedPatrol Tour with Dacia!

27/02/2025

𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟔: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬.
😱One of the most shocking stories from the 80s Bucharest was the erasure of an entire neighborhood from the face of the earth in order to build an immense lake on Dambovita River.
⛪The most horrifying part was the demolition of a 1564 built church on a major Orthodox holiday and the removal of over 11,000 corpses from a cemetery in less than 2 months. At the end of this destruction, many graves remained under the concrete slabs and under the water of Lake Morii.
⚰️The gravediggers worked day and night for two months to take out the dead, the prosecutor came, the relatives came, identified those who they could identify, and took them to the other cemetery. Some of the dead, were buried in the 18th century after a bubonic plague.
☠️Witnessing priests testified that the underground crypts were flooded and the bricks soaked, but they found intact corpses, very old, but which were well preserved and folded like mummies. These broke during the exhumation!
🧟Urban stories told by the fishermen from Lake Morii state that, at night, dozens of strange lights are often seen above the water. Others say that sometimes there is an inexplicable roar in the area, as if someone is mourning or whining. This is what brought the curse on Lake Morii.
💀Many are afraid to bathe in its waters, in which more than a hundred people have drowned in time. Hear the stories of the RedPatrol tour with Dacia!
Credits: Andrei Birsan

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♥️This is a very emotional day for us! ⭐7th of March 2018, 7 years ago Malvina, the 1984 ivory RedPatrol star 🌟 on her trip to Bucharest to join our project. ⭐Never in a hurry, never getting intimidated, always trustworthy! ⭐Mighty from her first day with us! #redpatroltour #redpatrol #dacia1300 #dacia1310 #oldcars #retrocars #classiccars #travelgram #carsofinstagram #citytour #drivingtour

𝟐𝟓-𝟐𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐯, 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐔.𝐒.𝐒.𝐑. 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭. 🗓️Perceived as a reformist of communism, Gorbachev initiated the policy of transparency in the state-citizen relationship but also initiated reforms for the liberalization of economic and cultural activities. ☭Ceaușescu, who promised himself to become a Stalin of Romania immediately became Gorbachev's outspoken opponent together with the Presidents of Bulgaria and D.D.R. Bucharest in the days of the visit had to look like a colorful, prosperous city, with happy and grateful people. ☭Gorbachev was received with great fear by the authorities, who were concentrating on isolating any dialogue which could betray the disaster of the Ceaușescu regime to Gorbachev, who was to take large crowd visits in the program. Special attention was paid to persons "suitable for disorderly conduct or penetration of the security and guard device" and the security measures were extremely comprehensive. In the total decay of the Romanian 80s crisis, in just a few days the roads were repaired, especially those on the official route, flowers were planted and even the shops received some extra merchandise, especially foods and drinks that were missing for months. ☭The citizens of the capital hoped that Gorbachev would visit a market, this being an opportunity to get more products, and foreign commentators pointed out that Gorbachev's reception was less enthusiastic than in other fraternal countries. Here the story of Romanians at the Redpatrol tour with Dacia! Credits- TVR #redpatroltour #dacia1310 #bucharest #classiccars #dacia1300 #vintagecars #redpatrol #history #carsofins

The most scenic tour of Bucharest. With our guests from India 🇮🇳 . #redpatrol #redpatroltour #citytour #dacia #dacia1300 #dacia1310 #bucharest #stagdo #bachelorparty #travel #romania

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You can travel and visit Bucharest by foot and listen to a textbook story from a guide at any time, but how often do you have the chance to find out about the troubled past while actually being involved in that story from behind the steering wheel of the car that made Romanian communism move?

At Red Patrol Tours you get the most memorable experience of discovering Bucharest while driving a fully restored Dacia from the 70 -80’s !

Live the irresistible “Dacia effect”: everybody will look at you, will wave hands at you and even photo you. Feel like a rock-star on the stage!