GAZ-M415 Pick up

Production period:	1939 to 1941
Class :	Commercial vehicle
Body versions :	Pick up
Engines:	Gasoline : 3.3 liters (37 kW)
Length:	4655 mm
Width:	1770 mm
Height:	1775 mm
Wheelbase :	2845 mm
Curb weight :	1455 kg

The GAZ-M415  was a Soviet pick-up , which was mass-produced by the Gorkowski Awtomobilny Zavod (GAZ) from 1939 to 1941. 

History

The GAZ-M415 ( Russian ГАЗ-M415 ) It is heavily based on the 1936 GAZ-M1. The GAZ-415 and GAZ-M-415 are occasionally used variant names, and the GAZ-4 was a light truck or pick-up. Its manufacture was first halted in 1936 without a replacement. It wasn't until 1939 that a pick-up based on the now-built GAZ-M1 was produced again. This vehicle was given the designation GAZ-M415, where M stands for Molotov, the Soviet Union's then-president, whose nickname was the GAZ plant. Although the first prototypes from the late 1930s had a continuous body, a separate, angular loading area was built in series production. The passenger car entirely took over the frame and drivetrain.

During the short production period, the body of the GAZ-M415 was also used on various other vehicles:GAZ-11-415 - With the GAZ-11-73 there was from 1939 a six-cylinder version of the GAZ-M1 passenger car. This engine, actually intended for a truck, was built on a trial basis in the GAZ-M415. Serial production was omitted for unknown reasons. GAZ-61-415 - A vehicle that combined the four-wheel drive chassis of the GAZ-61 with the body of the GAZ-M415. Only very few specimens were made for the Red Army . A prototype with extended wheelbase was built.

How many copies were ultimately built exactly is not clear. The estimates vary between around 5000  Because of the war ended production in 1941, it was not resumed.