GAZ-M72
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 GAZ-M72 on Victory Day in Khabarovsk (2014)
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| Sales designation: | ГАЗ-М72 |
| Production period: | 1955-1958 |
| Class : | Off-road vehicle |
| Body versions : | limousine |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 2.1 liters (40 kW) |
| Length: | 4665 mm |
| Width: | 1695 mm |
| Height: | 1790 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 2712 mm |
| Empty weight : | 1615 kg |
The GAZ-M72 ( Russian ГАЗ-М72 ) is an off-road vehicle from the Soviet manufacturer Gorkowski Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ for short), which was built in series from 1955 to 1958. It combines the chassis of the GAZ-69 off-road vehicle with the body of the GAZ-M20 Pobeda . A common alternative designation for the vehicle is M-72 , also referred to as GAZ-72 in the literature.
Vehicle history
All-wheel drive passenger cars were virtually non-existent in the Soviet Union in the 1940s. It was only in the course of the Second World War that the Red Army increasingly called for all-terrain vehicles. The GAZ-61 was built during the war , but only very small numbers of it were built. It was followed by the GAZ-64 and finally the GAZ-69 . All of these vehicles were off-road, but offered no comfort.
However, there was also the approach of equipping ordinary passenger cars with all-wheel drive. Customers were seen particularly among the higher ranks in the military. Tests were carried out with the ZIS-110 in Moscow, in which one copy was converted to four-wheel drive. Parts of the GAZ-63 truck were used for this . However, it remained with the experiments. It was not until the GAZ-M20 Pobeda that new ventures were finally started to achieve the original goal and create an off-road vehicle with normal passenger comfort. To do this, the body of the GAZ-M20 was placed on the chassis of the GAZ-69 off-road vehicle. In contrast to the GAZ-M20, the name Pobeda (English: victory) no longer appears. Nevertheless, it was also used by the population for this automobile.
Series production of the car began in September 1955, nine years after that of the Pobeda. Development began in the spring of 1954. In the first year, 1525 units were built, 1151 units in 1956 and another 2001 units by the end of production. When production of the GAZ-M20 ended, production of the GAZ-M72 was also discontinued in August 1958 after only three years and 4677 copies. The successor GAZ-M21 Volga no longer offered a version with all-wheel drive, although such vehicles would have been urgently needed in the Russian villages. It would be almost two decades before the Lada Niva, a four-wheel drive car, could also be bought by private individuals in the Soviet Union. The GAZ-M72, on the other hand, was only sold to authorities and the military.
In 1956, two Russian automobile journalists took a test drive from Moscow to Vladivostok with a GAZ-M72 . The journey of 15,000 km took half a year and the car survived it largely unscathed.
The approach of putting an ordinary car body on an all -wheel drive chassis was taken up again by Moskvitch in 1957 with the Moskvich-410 . However, the vehicle was similarly short and little built.
Technical specifications
For the GAZ-M72, if known.
- Engine: four-cylinder four-stroke petrol engine
- Engine type: GAZ-20
- Power: 55 HP (40 kW) at 3600 min -1
- Displacement: 2112 cm³
- Bore: 82 mm
- Stroke: 100 mm
- Transmission: mechanical gearbox, 3 forward gears + 1 reverse gear
- Reduction gear: two-stage
- Top speed: 90 km / h
- Tank capacity: 55 l
- Fuel consumption: 14 l / 100 km at less than 30 km / h
- Drive formula : 4 × 4
Dimensions and weights
- Length: 4665 mm
- Width: 1695 mm
- Height: 1790 mm
- Wheelbase: 2712 mm
- Ground clearance: 210 mm
- Front track: 1335 mm
- Rear track: 1388 mm
- Tire size: 6.50-16 "
- Empty weight: 1615 kg
- permissible total weight: 2040 kg
- maximum negotiable slope: 30 °
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d L. M. Shugurow: АВТОМОБИЛИ. России и СССР. First part. P. 238.
- ↑ a b c ГАЗ-М72: когда деревни были большими. «За рулем», November 2014. (Russian)
- ↑ a b Website of a Russian museum about the GAZ-M72 (Russian)
- ↑ Website with technical data of the GAZ-M72 (English)
literature
- LM Shugurov: АВТОМОБИЛИ. России и СССР. First part. Ilbi / Prostreks, Moscow 1993, ISBN 5-87483-004-9 .
