Latest car Volga
1967. In February, was produced car volga, which is particularly dear to me – it’s my machine, export version “21US. Large round clock with an inscription in the half-circle “Made in USSR” is still going exactly. The car does not cause much trouble. Since he first drove into our yard, in the district rotted incredible amount of machines. And in it all, except carburetor and electrics, native. Before I put the battery under the hood of the GAZ-53 “, staff sometimes” freeze “and rescued the curve starter” – a good workout for the muscles. The gear shift lever on the steering column through a system of two parallel scenes. The force on the lever and move it so carefully calculated that the velocity can be manipulated by one finger without lifting the brush from the steering wheel. As in the box to sync only 2-nd and 3 yayperedachi to start with the 1 st, you need a moment to lift the lever to the “neytralki on 2 nd and then throw themselves down – on the 1-st. However, the empty car pulled out easily and with a 2-y, and its momentum booster for the first fifty meters give odds to many modern cars. To go from 2 nd to the third, you just throw the lever to neutral and again – on the third. And if this podgadat turnovers in a box, you can just play with a finger, not squeezing grip.
1968. A pilot batch of “Volga” second generation – “GAZ-24“. There was a suspicion that the indexation of “Volga” directly depends on the number of the next congress of the Communist Party: “21″ – 1956-th year, “22″ – 1961st, “24″ – the 1971st. But this is mere coincidence. Work on the 24 th “began in the 1961st year.
Transitional modifications to the old body and aggregates “GAZ-24” was not. Since 1965, “21-I” is no longer updated.
Last Volga GAZ-21 “went down the assembly line July 15, 1970. This car modification “21US with chassis number 334312, painted in anthracite color, took place in the exhibition factory museum. Total from 1956 to 1970, was issued 638,875 cars GAZ-21 and GAZ-22 “.
And now, after 26 years, when the last “21-I” left the assembly line, every okoloavtomobilny talk that with the Moscow banker, that the governor was that with the Petersburg Mitiok ultimately boils down to one: 21-I “- only the correct machine. “She came in time, but left the assembly line, took an entire era. The era that lasted 14 years.