The history of the Soviet GAZ-24 Bashny.Net

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GAZ-24 is probably one of the most beautiful cars of the Soviet epohi.Ostraya razor appearance corresponded to the latest trends in the US motor industry 60





1. "Comrades! The check digit provides rapid development of the automotive industry ", - he said in 1958, the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, and his words were not idle talk. While gas is discharged completely in tune with what was then the automobile fashion, dictated by the US, "Volga" GAZ-21. Ready to launch into a series of "The Seagull" GAZ-13, in April of 1958 at the International Industrial Exhibition in Brussels exposition GAZ received the Grand Prix.
But after a couple of years, American car design moved from streamlined shapes and fins to the rectangular shape, and all that was copied from the Americans, has become irrelevant.



2. In 1961 the plant began to work in earnest on the new model. He was appointed chief designer Alexander Nevzorov (author of the GAZ-21), artists-designers - Leonid and Nikolai Kireyev Tsikolenko. Design started in a big way - as many as four engines planned: the base V6, the powerful V8 from "The Seagull", an economical four-cylinder diesel and cheap to manufacture four-cylinder engine from GAZ-21 taxis. Shestitsilindrovik assumed are available with cast iron and aluminum cylinder block and complete the standard automatic transmission and diesel, and "four" - a three-step mechanical switch on the steering column and automatically connect overdrive. If these plans come true!



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The appearance of the GAZ-24 was born long and hard. In the first year of the artists and designers tried to "flatten" the body "twenty-first" and provide it with four headlights, but it looked all still archaic. Thus began an independent search form, and from 1962 to 1966 was built six full-size layout and drawn countless sketches - was a "rip off" new "Volga" with a specific foreign model did not. Finally, by 1965 the car has gained real shape - on the thumbnails to see her "face" as a two or four round headlights and rectangular, with horizontal or vertical slats of the front grille.



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The five copies produced four-wheel drive GAZ-24-95 on units Oise, with the designers were able to do without a frame! By order of the KGB in small lots to build a "catch-up" GAZ-24-24 with an engine of "The Seagull" GAZ-13 cars for surveillance of foreign diplomats. The maximum speed of this "Volga" was 200-220 km / h. Led "catch-up" high professionals: the engine had to balance the heavy cast-iron stove in the trunk of a weight of 200 kg and the power steering was not - a place he was not under the hood.
All-wheel drive GAZ-24-95 served personally, "the chief hunter of the USSR" Leonid Ilyich. It's funny that the emblem with a deer on the nose of the car was not red and green!



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