GAZ-A car history

Production period:	1932 to 1936
Class :	motor car
Body versions :	Cabriolet , Limousine,tuck
Engines:	Gasoline : 3.29 liters (29 kW) R4
Length:	3875 mm
Width:	1710 mm
Height:	1780 mm
Wheelbase:	2630 mm
Curb weight:	1080 kg
previous model	none

The GAZ-A  was a Soviet passenger car, which was produced by the Gorkowski Awtomobilny Zavod (GAZ) from 1932.

History 

 The GAZ-A (ГАЗ-А) was the first passenger car to be produced mass-produced in the Soviet Union and is a near-exact copy of the Ford Model A of 1930. In the population, the car was nicknamed "Gazik". 

The Ford Motor Company and Russia have been working together since 1909. Ford was a significant manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles such as tractors and trucks, particularly in the 1910s and 1920s. Because the Soviet Union's automobile manufacturing was undeveloped, tens of thousands were imported. The first five-year plan, which contributed substantially to the growth of the Soviet Union's industry in general, also included a strategy to construct a domestic vehicle industry. In 1929, the USSR signed an official deal with Ford, requiring the USSR to purchase significant quantities of Ford model kits for assembly at the newly created Nizhnegorodski Awtomobilny Sawod, or NAZ (from 1933, GAZ). In the KIM factory in Moscow vehicles were assembled.

By the end of 1932, the Nizhny Novgorod plant had been brought up to a level where it was able to produce automobiles. The first cars left on December 8, 1932. At about the same time began the production of the GAZ-AA. This was a truck that was based on the same chassis and took over many other vehicle parts from the car. By 1935, 100,000 vehicles were built in the new plant, mostly trucks. In the same year, the contract between Ford and the Soviet Union was dissolved by mutual consent.  1936 ended the manufacturing of GAZ-A in favor of the successor to 41,917 built copies GAZ-M1 . 

Since the GAZ-A was the only mass-produced automobile of the time in the Soviet Union, a whole range of other vehicles based on this model. In addition to the truck GAZ-AA these were also pick-ups, racing cars and an armored car for the army.. 

• GAZ-A - basic variant, was built from 1932 to 1936.
• GAZ-AA -Truck builtfrom 1932 to 1938 (and GAZ-MM until 1950), using the same frame and engine as the GAZ-A. The number of units built far exceeded that of the automobile.
• GAZ-AAAA - Prototype of a three-axle transport vehicle based on the GAZ-A. It did not come to a serial production, only two pieces were manufactured 1936.
• GAZ-A-Aero - racing car whose technical origin lies in the GAZ-A. However, the vehicle got a completely redesigned, streamlined body. In 1934, a single car was built.
• GAZ-A Kegress (Russian ГАЗ-А Кегресс) - A half-track vehicle named after Adolphe Kégresse . The rear axle of the GAZ-A was replaced by a crawler track. The construction could not prevail, in November 1933, only a prototype was built.
• GAZ-3 - variant with closed limousine body. Only a prototype was built in 1934.
• GAZ-4 - GAZ-A based mass-produced pickup, parts of the GAZ-AA truck were used.
• GAZ-6 - model version with closed four-door body. From 1934 produced in small series and used as an ambulance or taxi. Different sources speak of 60 to 100 built copies. 
• GAZ-Aremkuz - Also the automobile factory Aremkuz from Moscow built a few copies of the GAZ-6. The design of the body varied. 
• D-8 - An armored car built on the chassis of the GAZ-A. Builtin 1932 in small numbers for the Red Army . 

In addition, the engine of the GAZ-A, with technical revisions, was still used in the following decades. He finds himself z. In the GAZ-M1 as well as in the GAZ-64 and GAZ-67 . Also the truck GAZ-MM, the successor of the GAZ-AA, uses a revised version of this engine.