Retro cars.
The Russian automotive industry.
In Moscow opened the exhibition of Soviet retro-cars. Twenty-seven of retro-cars of domestic production clearly tell about the history of the Soviet automobile industry at the exhibition "let's Go!". Wheelbarrows great for its time!
ZAZ-965 "Zaporozhets"«Soap-dish», «Hunchback», «Фафик» - as the only not прозывают little юркого «Zaporozhets» 965-th model. Many of us it is with him began his auto biography. Not all, however, know how colorful history has been the first among the «Cossacks».
ZAZ-966 "Zaporozhets", people in the «long-eared bat», «eared», «Cheburashka» - Soviet passenger car of extra small class.
Was produced at the plant in the city of Zaporozhye from 1967 to 1972 with the modifications. Thus, the emergence of ZAZ-966 marked departure from the original, quite successful, and the ratio of the size, weight, capacity, working volume of the engine of the car, and other characteristics characteristic of the first «Zaporozhets» ZAZ-965 and inherited from the cult at home «Fiat 600».
GAZ M-20 "Pobeda" GAZ-20 . Win - car sky rear of the car with a body of type "фастбек". Serially produced at the Gorky automobile plant (automobile plant them. Molotov) in 1946 - 1958. Initially the car was planned to call “home”. “Victory” was the name of the backup. Asked welcome from Stalin. “And how much is the homeland?” "asked the chief. And a machine called a Victory. How much is the victory of Stalin knew...
SMZ S-3A A Moto stroller. In 1958 on the conveyor Serpukhov motorcycle plant stood мотоколяска SMZ S-3A. This Moto stroller is the first of four wheel in our country. In the people of this car was nicknamed "Моргуновкой" in honor of the famous film "Operation Y". Such Moto wheelchair free of charge gave the military the disabled. Power package for model-3A became a two-stroke motorcycle engine IZH-49 (346 cm3, 10 h.p.) in the block with a four-speed gearbox. The engine was mounted fan and shroud cooling of cylinder, electric starter. Moto carriage turned out very heavy (kerb weight 425 kg), insufficiently high passability (bus size of 5.00-10" and clearance in 170 mm), bad dynamics (maximum speed - up to 60 km/h) and high consumption of fuel (of 4.5-5.0 l/100 km).
Gas 61. The Soviet leader's car with an all-wheel drive. Modification of the GAS-61-73 - the world's first four-wheel drive car with an indoor saloon. During the great Patriotic war, the GAS-61-73 actively used as the headquarters of the car for the Supreme command of the red Army. In the family of the GAZ-61 was envisaged also the truck GAZ-61-415 with a separate private double cabin from GAS-М415 and light artillery tractor GAS-61-417 with a cabin without a top and doors.
Moskvitch 400 (later 401) Soviet passenger car of small Germany, produced at the Plant of small cars in Moscow (ZMA, later - МЗМА) from December 1946 to 1954. Originally was a full analogue of a car Opel cadet K38, produced in 1937-1940 years in Germany at the German branch Opel American concern General Motors, restored after the war, on the basis taken for the reparation of the copies of the documentation and tooling. Moskvich-401 - an enhanced versionя выпускавшаяся from 1954 to 1956. Was issued 216 006 sedans and 17 742 convertible. The price of the car was 8000 RUB.