He appeared on the streets of the capital shortly after the war, in 1947. At first glance the design of the car “Moskvin-400” was not fundamental innovations. Its main advantage was a good correlation of parameters of a balanced relationship of technical solutions, comparative simplicity.
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GAZ-12 “ZIM”
Executive car GAZ-12 “ZIM” was intended for managers of the second echelon of state power (Ministers, secretaries of regional committees, chairmen of Executive committees, etc.) and had to take an intermediate position between the middle class car GAZ M-20 “Victory” and ZIS-110 limousine.
The machine was developed at the Gorky automobile plant named after Molotov in November 1949, it was led by design chief designer of the Gorky automobile plant A. A. Lipgart. As a prototype used American sedan Cadillac Fleetwood 61 of 1948, however, in contrast, the Gorky car didn’t have frame — world’s first 7-seat cars with three rows of seats have been created bearing body, which makes the car 200 pounds lighter “American.”
GAZ-14 “Chaika”
Changeable automotive fashion, and tended in the early 1960-ies to structures of a more severe, angular style, prompted designers to develop Gas Executive car with a more modern design than the GAZ-13.
Construction of a new “Gull” began in 1967, a large-scale model of a vehicle approved in 1969, after which the factory started to manufacture prototypes.
GAZ-13 “Chaika”
If at the end of 1940-ies of the GAZ-12 ZIM looked quite stylish, at the end of the 1950s from its former glory and left no trace.
That is why the designers of the plant had to create an entirely new Executive car, called the GAZ-13 “Chaika”.
MICROCAR FDD
I was born in 1944, and almost from the first year of life I was haunted by a sound — an ominous growl bearings rolling on asphalt. The sound that accompanied the movement on a small wooden carts returned from the war disabled legless…
And at that time was a lot — according to current estimates, over three million. The majority of former fighters of order-bearers disappeared in the vast expanses of our country, but many settled in cities, including the capital of our country. And their only vehicle was at the time knocked together from planks truck with ball bearings, equipped with a pair of rough, reminiscent of the iron wood, which the disabled, starting from the road, causing her to move…
TRUCK GAZ-53A
One of the most popular Soviet postwar trucks became the GAZ-51 or, as it was called drivers, is “lawn”. Released in 1946, this 2.5-ton vehicle became the basis for many specialized vehicles — trucks, tractors, vans, tankers, cranes and buses. However, as time went on, and won the national love the truck gradually handed over their positions — the country needed a more powerful, higher gross weight and higher speed machine.
