GAZ Gorky Automobile Plant GAZ GL - 1 (diecast 1:43, Dip Models)

This is GAZ GL - 1. The model is made by DiP models in scale 1:43. Nothing opens.

GAZ GL-1 is the first Soviet racing car factory built, produced at the Gorky Automobile Plant, presumably no more than two copies. It was developed in 1938 on the basis of the serial car GAZ M - 1. The car sat two national speed records. The book tells the car's history and is both in English and Russian.

At the competitions in 1938, the pilot of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gromov, developed a speed of 141,565 km / h on the serial front-wheel-drive car "Cord-812" donated to him (after the non-stop flight Moscow-North Pole-San Jacinto). This achievement was close to the USSR record in those years.

The decision of the party at the Gorky Automobile Plant was created by a design team headed by Yevgeny Agitov. Due to the absence of any other serial vehicles of the Gorky Automobile Plant, the design of the first Soviet racing car factory-built was started on the basis of the serial "Emka" GAZ M - 1. In 1940, a racing car GAZ-GL-1 second modification was built. For its basis was taken a more powerful car GAZ-11-73. Its 6-cylinder engine with a working volume of 3.4 liters also underwent forcing, two carburetors were installed, due to which the unit's capacity increased to 100 hp . The appearance of the car also changed in comparison with the version of 1938: a closed streamlined cabin appeared, the radiator lining was changed . On the GAZ-GL-1 race car of the second modification Arkady Nikolaev September 22 1940 set an absolute all-union speed record: 161.87 km / h. In 1941, it was planned to work on the third generation of a racing car, but the second world war 2 began, and the work was stopped. All GAZ-GL-1 cars were lost. Arkady Nikolaev no longer returned to motorsport and began to work in the main specialty (aviation technician). Machine designer E. Agitov committed suicide during the war. In 1978, the Soviet artist Alexander Zakharov recreated the appearance of the first Soviet racing car on the basis of existing archive photographs, the figure was published in the magazine "Behind the wheel". In 2006, the firm "Body Manufactory of Alexander Bushuev" began to recreate the car, and in the creation of replicas used parts from the old GAZ-M-1. In 2010, the car was ready and is currently located in the exposition of the museum of retro cars at Rogozhsky Val in Moscow.