GAZ-24 “Volga” pro­to­type in 1967

GAZ-24 “Volga” first generation

GAZ-24 “Volga” inte­rior first generation

GAZ-24 “Volga” sec­ond generation

GAZ-24 “Volga” inte­rior sec­ond generation

GAZ-24–10 “Volga” third generation

Pro­duced 1968–85. Dur­ing that time it went through sev­eral updates. First pro­to­types were built already in 1966. GAZ-24 “Volga” is one of the most famous Soviet cars. It was exported to many coun­tries and had many mod­i­fi­ca­tions. I’ll cre­ate posts about dif­fer­ent gen­er­a­tions sep­a­rate­lyl soon.

Nami-107

Pro­duced in 1968. Also called Nami-107 “Vasilek” (which means corn­flower in Rus­sia) This is the first front wheel drive car in Rus­sia. The engine ihas 45 hp and placed in front in trans­verse posi­tion. How­ever it remained an experimet­nal model and never went into mass production.

PAZ-672

PAZ-672

PAZ-3201

PAZ-672 inte­rior

Pro­duced 1968–1989. PAZ-672 is the base model. It was (and per­haps still is?) one of the most com­mon pub­lic trans­porta­tion in Russ­ian sub­urbs and rural areas. There are sev­eral mod­i­fi­ca­tions like:

PAZ-672G — meant for moun­tain­ous areas, it has 2x105L fuel tanks, seat belts, extra breaks and power steer­ing.
PAZ-672U for trop­i­cal cli­mate and
PAZ-672S for north­ern cli­mate
PAZ-3202S for north­ern cli­mate with four-wheel drive (I tink)
PAZ-3201 for rought ter­rain. It was pro­duced 1972–1989, had four-wheel drive and its weight is 4860 kg.
PAZ-3742 was cargo bus ver­sion, it 4000 kg empty and can carry pay­load up to 2500 kg. Its also lit­tle bit longer mea­sur­ing 7320 mm

Wheels 4x2 or 4x4

Engine (ZMZ-672)
For­mula V8 gaso­line
Dis­place­ment 4,25 liters
Per­fo­mance 115 hp @3200 rpm
Com­pres­sion ratio 6.7:1
Fuel tank 105 liters
Fuel type A-72
Fuel con­sump­tion 20,5 liters/100 km
Top speed  80 km/h

Mea­sures
Lenght 7150 mm
Width 2440 mm
Height 2950 mm
Wheel base 3600 mm
Ground clear­ance 280 mm

Weights
Curb weight 4535 kg
Gross 8060 kg

BAZ-135 L4 civil­ian version

BAZ-135 mil­i­tary version

ZIL-135 epx­eri­men­tal ver­sion with Frog-7 (9 meters long, weights 2500 kg and flies more than 60 kilo­me­ters) type rocket.

Pro­duced 1968-?. It was orig­i­nally named ZIL-135 but ZIL only pro­duced a few exper­i­men­tal ver­sions of this truck. Main pro­duc­tion was in Bryansk. BAZ-135 was mil­i­tary ver­sion and BAZ-135 L4 was civil ver­sion flatbed truck. Inter­est­ingly first and last pair of wheels were used for steering.

Specs here are for civil­ian ver­sion BAZ-135 L4.

Wheels 8x8

Engine (2xZUL-375 engines)
For­mula V8
Dis­place­ment 14 liters (2x7)
Per­fo­mance 360 HP (2x180)
Com­pres­sion ratio 6,5:1
Max torque 617 lb*ft @ 1800 rpm
Gear­box 5 speed
max speed 70 km/h

Mea­sures
Lenght 9270  mm
Width 2800 mm
Height  2530 mm
Wheel­base 6300  mm
Ground clear­ance 580 mm

Weight
Weight empty 10 500 kg
Max load 9000 kg