The history of "Laura." Homemade Car (30 pics + text)

In 1981, through Leningrad held another rally Improvised machines, organized by the magazine "Technology towards the youth". Probably, this event prompted the two friends to the idea of ​​construction of own car, or rather, two - to hurt anybody was not. And they called his creation "Laura»





They called these guys Gennady Khain (who at the time worked at a shipyard) and Dmitry Parfenov (and this - shirked army Voenmech).
To find on the outskirts of bezhoznuyu sarayuhu with leaky walls and roof, the guys started to cook from old water pipes two identical frames.



Winter passed in the works with "iron": install the engine, assembled chassis. Once warmed up so that the epoxy were himreaktsii, started the construction of the body.



Shells were made by the following technologies: frame glued to the foam blocks, as close as possible to the drawings cut and vyshkurivalas surface is glued on top of several layers of glass fiber, filler, skins. Should you require fine detail - to pick out the foam and glued reinforcement of the pipes.



In the spring of 1985, both "Laura" was completed yet.
As you can see, the car got a little bit different. "Laura" Parfyonov with more rounded Pereda, painted light beige paint and zachernёnoy side bar. Hain made his car more "chopped" the face and painted everything in dark green color.



The back lighting has also made its own.



"On-board electronics" look impressive, but in fact it was very simple: on the first screen when you press one of the buttons flashed numerical values ​​corresponding to one of the sensors, and a second display with buttons - is not nothing but a simple engineering calculator with boarded in Memory prostetski several applets (for example, to calculate the average fuel consumption or vyschityvaniya reserve). These, of course, had to be manually entered.



"Laura" had front-wheel drive, which in 1985 was curiosity (the same "Lada-Sputnik" -2108 Soviet citizens showed at ENEA published in 1984.)



The machines were equipped with engines "VAZ-2105", which attaches to the "deployed" by KP "Zaporozhets" and then the rotation is transmitted to the front CV joints from "Niva»



"Laura" Parfyonov graced the exposure of the USSR in the international exhibition "EXPO-85" in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, he Napara Hainovym on a second machine (repainted for similarity also in beige) went to the rally of "Technology towards the youth" on the route Moscow-Plovdiv -Sofia.
According Hainova "Laura" on a flat straight confidently dispersed up to 170 km / h.



In 1986, in parallel with the construction of "Ohta»
forum11/topic200634.html">forum11/topic200634.html Hain made a "facelift" of his car by changing the design of bumpers, making lining the sidewalls, reissuing lighting equipment and paint it red.



The exhibition "100 years of the car" was held in Prague, "Laura" Hainova interested in participating in the exhibition Nuccio Bertone, and was frankly surprised that such a modern car built two people in a barn.



By 1988, the way Hainova and Parfyonova diverge. Each register his company, hoping to do business in the manufacture of cars. Parfenov finally also modernises the appearance of their "Laura" and repaint it in the color dark blue top and bottom - dark silver.



Around 1990 Parfenov decides to radically upgrade his car and with the participation of its designer Sunteeva fundamentally alters the appearance of "Laura." Ruthlessly cut down the corners of the body both front and rear, from clay was attached a narrow and round "face" with the developed spoiler, rear were raised "vyshtampovki." After removing the matrix and vykleyki new body, "original" case has been broken down and ripped from the frame.



But it happens "mishap": Parfyonova almost nothing gets overturned «Audi Coupe» (in fact "I-80" with a body of 3-hdverny hatchback) with an almost new two-liter engine. Dmitri decides to do to "Audeyskih" mid-engined sports car units, placed in the database deployed on the engine with a box of 180 degrees from the «Audi». For this svezhesdizaynirovanogo body "Laura" is shortened to (shortened the distance between the door and wheel arch), and, accordingly, is extended back, there is an air intake side. In 1992 unmarketable layout with neotkryvayuschimesya doors was shown at the Moscow International Motor Show. We called it «Laura Xc-20."
(photos of this version I have not been preserved, so that memory scribbled sketch)



Deciding to put "Laura-2" on stream Parfenov throws the remains of primordial "Laura" in the trash, cooking more frames "XC-20" and vykleivaet a few more bodies.



The plan even manufacturing option "convertible". But in the early '90s I was not wishing to buy "smopal" on "beushnye" units "Audi" at the price of a new foreign car. Therefore, the project stalled successfully.



Found only one enthusiast Rich from Smolensk who bought one body with the cutting of the roof and completed the same machine, adding "semi-finished" removable hard top.



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Instead of rear-view mirrors, this machine is equipped with video cameras.



In 1994-95, emigrated to the US A.Kulygin (creator of "Pangolin)
forum11/topic201947.html">forum11/topic201947.html Parfyonov offers to organize in Russia and the US car production on a "kit car". It was decided to make the new body panels to a mid-serial "Pontiac Fiero". The project was called (I think wrongly, IMHO) "Laura-3"



Design At this time engaged Pepeliaev, Kulikov and Sunteev



For making the layout and matrices Parfenov and associates went to America to visit Kulygina



But ztot option is also not particularly go. The first two cars (black and yellow) turns himself go Parfenov and Sunteev.



One car has got some motorsport club and used as a pace car.



Another bought, not sparing 30,000 bucks Baltic hot guys.



KULIGIN produced in America, in turn, the "kit car" called "Plazma"



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And what happened to the "Laura" Hainova? The host went long on her own. In the early 90's was forced to make a separate rear trunk, since his car did not notice the truck driver and his body crumpled rear pillars "Laura." Matrices for the recovery, of course, there was no way three-door hatchback has become a two-door coupe



One and a half or two years ago Khain handed his car to the museum "Auto Review", where she is now gathering dust.



The interior of "Laura" Hainova practically has not undergone changes. Finally tell another secret about the "electronic" speedometer "Laura", which with the growth rate appeared glowing "dash" in the sequence of green-yellow-red. It is this miracle speedometer was out of the ordinary "volgovskih" tape. Film washed, painted aniline dye and highlight the rear lamp. That's the whole "Electronics»!
ALL! I finished.



And another bonus Fota sdelanaya me as a child (and therefore quality -shvah!)



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