GAZ 6 (diecast 1:43, Hongwell / Nash Avtoprom)
- GAZ 6 (from 1934)
- Hongwell / Nash Avtoprom
- 1:43
- Showcase model / No engine
- diecast
- others
- Perfect mint condition
- Original packaging exists
- Not for sale
The information about the real car is correct because I make a lot of reasearch to find the right information about the real vehicle.
GAZ-3 and GAZ-6 ("Pioneer", "Fordor") - modifications based on GAZ-A with a closed four-door body "sedan". GAZ-6 was manufactured in small batches in 1934-1936, GAZ-3 - was a variant of a specialized taxi based on it. This is the first Soviet serial passenger car with a closed body. GAZ A is a middle class car with an open 5-seater 4-door body type phaeton. A licensed copy of the Ford-A car, the equipment and documentation for the production of which was purchased by the Soviet government in the United States in 1929 from Ford Motor Company.
The first Soviet passenger car mass assembled and produced from 1932 to 1936 at the Gorky Automobile Plant and from 1933 to 1935 at the Moscow plant KIM. The first two cars were assembled on December 8, 1932. A total of 41,917 cars were produced. The Ford A model that GAZ was allowed to produce under license from Ford Motor Company, was more precisely a Ford Model A Standard Phaeton. It made some changes to GAZ A. It was a model with open sides and canvas roof. It was a significant leap forward for the then relatively inexperienced Soviet automotive industry. However, the biggest complaint was that from the Soviet commissioners that the open car was far too cold in the winter. It gave rise to producing a closed car, based on a GAZ A, in the style of Ford A Fordor. However, the US license and technical assistance did not include any closed car. Then, GAZ engineer Juri Naomovich Sorochkin, in the design of a closed cabin, was very similar to Ford A Fordor, well, you might call it a form of copy, with extra insulation and a petroleum heater. Production number was approx. up to 100 copies. A larger production was not realized as it was too resourceful and slow to produce the bodywork in that number and at the speed that the authorities wanted.
I should also point out one interesting thing that Lev Shugurov mentions in his book trilogy on the Russian and Soviet automotive industries. Basically, before World War II, the designers at the various state automotive factories tried to ad here to a formula whereby luxury cars were styled in the same manner as American or German cars with more swept lines, chrome, streamlining, etc. However, smaller cars (with one major exception: GAZ-M1 "Emka" and related designs because Ford had mostly designed the body, but even there, the GAZ-11-73, for instance, has a British-inspired radiator grille) tended to have British or French-type styling (the KIM-10-50 is a good example). Unusually, notes Shugurov, this changed during WWII: all designs were changed to American-type styling EXCEPT for the Moskvitch 400-420, and this was because it was literally the late thirties Opel Olympia with some minor changes (capturing the factory with all of the presses intact, steel, etc. and the need to introduce the car right after WWII makes this copying unavoidable). Thus, the GAZ-3 and GAZ-6 are in this way a bit strange: since the bodies were styled by GAZ, they're honestly a bit closer to what we think of as being "British" or "French"-type styling, but everything forward of the A pillar is basically "American"-type styling because of course it was the GAZ-A, which was in turn a slightly modified Ford Model A.
Author: Eugen1985
No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information
GAZ-3 and GAZ-6 ("Pioneer", "Fordor") - modifications based on GAZ-A with a closed four-door body "sedan". GAZ-6 was manufactured in small batches in 1934-1936, GAZ-3 - was a variant of a specialized taxi based on it. This is the first Soviet serial passenger car with a closed body. GAZ A is a middle class car with an open 5-seater 4-door body type phaeton. A licensed copy of the Ford-A car, the equipment and documentation for the production of which was purchased by the Soviet government in the United States in 1929 from Ford Motor Company.
The first Soviet passenger car mass assembled and produced from 1932 to 1936 at the Gorky Automobile Plant and from 1933 to 1935 at the Moscow plant KIM. The first two cars were assembled on December 8, 1932. A total of 41,917 cars were produced. The Ford A model that GAZ was allowed to produce under license from Ford Motor Company, was more precisely a Ford Model A Standard Phaeton. It made some changes to GAZ A. It was a model with open sides and canvas roof. It was a significant leap forward for the then relatively inexperienced Soviet automotive industry. However, the biggest complaint was that from the Soviet commissioners that the open car was far too cold in the winter. It gave rise to producing a closed car, based on a GAZ A, in the style of Ford A Fordor. However, the US license and technical assistance did not include any closed car. Then, GAZ engineer Juri Naomovich Sorochkin, in the design of a closed cabin, was very similar to Ford A Fordor, well, you might call it a form of copy, with extra insulation and a petroleum heater. Production number was approx. up to 100 copies. A larger production was not realized as it was too resourceful and slow to produce the bodywork in that number and at the speed that the authorities wanted.
I should also point out one interesting thing that Lev Shugurov mentions in his book trilogy on the Russian and Soviet automotive industries. Basically, before World War II, the designers at the various state automotive factories tried to ad here to a formula whereby luxury cars were styled in the same manner as American or German cars with more swept lines, chrome, streamlining, etc. However, smaller cars (with one major exception: GAZ-M1 "Emka" and related designs because Ford had mostly designed the body, but even there, the GAZ-11-73, for instance, has a British-inspired radiator grille) tended to have British or French-type styling (the KIM-10-50 is a good example). Unusually, notes Shugurov, this changed during WWII: all designs were changed to American-type styling EXCEPT for the Moskvitch 400-420, and this was because it was literally the late thirties Opel Olympia with some minor changes (capturing the factory with all of the presses intact, steel, etc. and the need to introduce the car right after WWII makes this copying unavoidable). Thus, the GAZ-3 and GAZ-6 are in this way a bit strange: since the bodies were styled by GAZ, they're honestly a bit closer to what we think of as being "British" or "French"-type styling, but everything forward of the A pillar is basically "American"-type styling because of course it was the GAZ-A, which was in turn a slightly modified Ford Model A.
Author: Eugen1985
No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information
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