GAZ-24-95: specifications, photo. Auto legends of the USSR

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

The GAZ-24-95 car, created by order of party leaders, was ahead of its time in many nuances. With him, the emergence of luxury passenger sedans with all-wheel drive began. The only pity is that the car turned out to be unclaimed as a serial car. A total of 5 prototypes were produced, which were then mercilessly tested in off-road conditions.

Start

Various experiments with the layout of a comfortable passenger body and an all-wheel drive chassis at the Gorky Automobile Plant began in the second half of the 1930s. One of the first design engineers in this area was Vitaly Grachev.

For some time this idea did not find the right response, but returned to it already in the time of Khrushchev. He actively sought to develop the agricultural sector in the country. For this reason, the secretaries of the regional committees constantly visited the collective farm fields. Naturally, ZIMs, as well as party representative "Victory" on collective farm roads, quickly lostall their properties, and the party leadership believed that shaking on such roads was below their dignity.

Special for rural roads

And so, GAZ received an order to develop a car that would be both comfortable and passable, so that it would not be afraid of field rural roads. As a result, the car department of the plant manufactures the M-72, equipped with all-wheel drive in the back of the Pobeda. The car was created on the basis of units from the GAZ M-20, as well as the GAZ-69. This is how the GAZ-24-95 was born, the history of which has yet to begin.

In 1973, the plant received an order from the Gorky regional committee to develop and manufacture an all-wheel drive car for Brezhnev based on one of the new generation sedans recently created at the plant. Nothing fundamentally new was required from the plant. Moreover, GAZ specialists had similar experience in adaptation work on Pobeda.

And so the work began to boil. The design of the car lasted only one year. During this time, they managed to create as many as five prototypes designed for all kinds of tests and checks. The development was carried out under the leadership of B. Dekhtyar, who was then in charge of the transmission department. The layout of the GAZ-24-95 was handled by F. Lepedin. Previously, he was involved in the GAZ M-72 project.

Features and technical issues in development

The car was characterized by excellent cross-country ability. Everything is easily explained - the main part of the design is borrowed from the UAZ-469. But there were a lot of differences, and one of them is the GAZ-24-95 Volgahad no frame as such.

But there were some problems during the design. The fact is that in the process of adaptation work, when trying to introduce the UAZ all-wheel drive transmission system into the Volga design, the angles of the cardan shafts that go from the transfer case to the drive axles significantly increased. For a passenger SUV, this design was unacceptable. Due to this arrangement, the noise level and vibration increased significantly.

Also, engineers allowed for the possibility of installing a GAZ-69 transmission. However, this model was no longer produced for about a year, and it was unacceptable to install something that is no longer produced on GAZ-24-95 prototypes. If such a model went into series, then there would be difficulties not only with the nodes themselves, but also with their maintenance.

Combating vibration and noise

The designers wasted no time trying to solve the vibration and noise problem. So, there were attempts to move the transmission lower. But due to this, the already small clearance decreased - all the advantages of this SUV were nullified.

Through trial and error, the angles of installation and inclination of the cardan shafts were minimized. An abrasive was added to the gearbox to reduce the noise from the gears. Transfer case decided to lower below. All this solved some of the problems. But it was uncomfortable to operate the car even in this form. Partially, vibration isolation helped to get rid of the noise.

Transmission, suspension: how it's done

There were no more serious problems with the GAZ-24-95. Yes, frontthe bridge was standard from the GAZ-24 - it was simply deployed. Other stockings, shorter ones, were added to it. Cams from UAZ are also used. The differentials were not equipped with traditional gears, but with a mechanism of increased friction.

In order for the bridge of the GAZ-24-95 Volga car to have good moves up and down, the design of the power unit pallet was also replaced. Also moved the oil receiver. The springs were removed, and springs were used instead. The brackets were fixed on the transverse beam located under the skirt between the spars.

The suspension was equipped with limiters, and original shock absorber mounts were made. Due to the use of springs, stabilizers were removed from the front suspension. Then they moved to the rear suspension system, which has not changed much. The fact is that the bridges were installed under the springs, and not above them.

Additionally, the tie rods had to be shifted, which required the use of a longer steering shaft. The latter had to be improved. Minor changes also affected the bottom of the car. The exhaust system was a slightly different shape, it should have been placed differently. After all, the suspension scheme is now UAZ.

The body remained the same, without major changes. As for rubber, no off-road rubber was installed on the GAZ-24-95, the creation of which was almost completed. Here was the most common city tires from the "Seagull". The disks were also original - from the GAZ-21 car. On this rubber, the car was tested. There were no changes in the interior, as in the exterior.

The only thing that has been done is the emblem has been changed. Otherwise, there are no distinctive elements in the interior of the all-wheel drive Volga.

A car that has remained experienced

This model did not go to serial assembly line. However, the cost of production was quite high. Difficulties were with technical equipment, and maintenance required not only experience, but also serious investments. Therefore, after considering all the advantages and disadvantages, the plant management decided to postpone the project until better times. The plant did not want to invest serious money in a project for which there was weak demand.

You can read all this in more detail in magazines (there is an interesting article in issue 78 - GAZ-24-95 "Volga", "Legends of the USSR").

Five prototypes

In 1974, almost by hand, the plant employees managed to assemble as many as five prototypes of all-wheel drive Volga, which received an index of 24-95. Two cars had to immediately leave for Moscow to their customers. There is unverified information that the car was used in forestry. The second car went to Party Secretary Ustinov.

The other two machines were ordered by the Gorky regional party committee while still in the process of being created. According to unverified reports, the regional committee received only one car. And the second went to the military. The last copy was to remain at the factory. The car was used astraveling. Today the car is in the factory. For some reason, they didn’t immediately give it to the museum (only after a while), although there is an article about it in the magazine "Auto Legends of the USSR", 78, GAZ-24-95 "Volga".

Today

Three copies are known to have survived. One of them can be found in a museum in Moscow. The second car is owned by a private owner in Nizhny Novgorod. Only two GAZ-24-95 cars have survived. Its technical characteristics remained unchanged. You won't find them for sale. All-wheel drive car GAZ-24-95 is a very rare rarity.