GAZ-61
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 A GAZ-61 in a museum
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| GAZ-61 | |
| Sales designation: | ГАЗ-61 |
| Production period: | 1939 / 1940-1945 |
| Class : | Off-road vehicle |
| Body versions : | Limousine , cabriolet , pick-up |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 3.5 liters (63 kW) |
| Length: | 4670 mm |
| Width: | 1750 mm |
| Height: | 1905 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 2845 mm |
| Empty weight : | 1650 kg |
| Previous model | GAZ-21 |
| successor | GAZ-64 |
The GAZ-61 ( Russian ГАЗ-61 ) is a passenger car from the Soviet manufacturer Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ), which was built from 1939. The four-wheel drive vehicle was mainly used for military purposes.
Vehicle history
The GAZ-61 was designed by the designer WA Gratschow and is based on the American Ford V8-40 . GAZ had already had experimental vehicles to achieve better off-road mobility, e.g. B. the GAZ-21 . The exact time of the start of series production of the GAZ-61 is specified differently, but the first vehicles are said to have been built in 1939.
The basic version of the GAZ-61 uses the body of the GAZ-M1 , which was widely used at the time . The main difference is that the GAZ-61 has all-wheel drive. The vehicle was built in different (further) versions:
- GAZ-61 - basic version, built 1940–1941.
- GAZ-61-40 - Cabriolet.
- GAZ-61-73 - All -metal body version introduced in 1941. Top speed: 107 km / h.
- GAZ-61-415 - version as an open pick-up, uses the body of the GAZ-M415 .
- GAZ-61-417 - Light artillery tractor.
The number of pieces produced fluctuates. Depending on the source, there is talk of 181 to 238 vehicles, so the GAZ-61 was only produced in extremely small numbers. The civilian version of the vehicle, the GAZ-M1 without all-wheel drive, on the other hand, was built over 60,000 times. The GAZ-61 was used as a vehicle for the management level of the Red Army in World War II . For example, Ivan Stepanowitsch Konew used a GAZ-61. At least one vehicle fell into the hands of the German Wehrmacht during the war .
At least one GAZ-61 with a closed body has been preserved in a museum to this day.
Technical specifications
- Engine: six-cylinder, four-stroke petrol engine
- Displacement: 3485 cm³
- Power: 85 PS (63 kW)
- Bore: 82.0 mm
- Stroke: 110.0 mm
- Compression: 6.5: 1
- Transmission: manual transmission, 3 forward gears, 1 reverse gear
- Top speed: 100 to 107 km / h
- Consumption: 17.0 l / 100 km
- Drive formula : 4 × 4
- Maximum negotiable slope: 78%
- Fording depth : 720 mm
Dimensions and weights
- Length: 4670 mm
- Width: 1750 mm
- Height: 1905 mm
- Wheelbase: 2845 mm
- Ground clearance: 210 mm
- Empty weight: 1650 kg
- Payload: 350 kg
- Seats: 5
- Tire size: 7.00-16 "
Further media
- DVD: "Vehicles Wear Shoulder Boards". Andrey Krukovsky, Wings of Russia Studio, 234 minutes, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Descriptive page with mention of the built variants (English)
- ↑ GAZ-M1 website (English)
- ↑ Website for GAZ-61 with technical data and a note on use by Konew (English)
- ↑ Picture and short note on the captured GAZ-61
