GAZ 60 Half-track all-terrain truck (diecast 1:43, Dvigateli Factory USSR)

After a series of experiments in Russia in the late 20s - early 30s of the twentieth century with half-tracked vehicles (GAZ-A-Kegress, Ford-NATI-5, NATI-2 and others), an acceptable all-terrain vehicle design based on a mass truck gradually crystallized those years - GAZ-AA. The prototype in 1933 was named NATI-3 - it appeared after the modernization of the NATI-2 car. Cars were tested in the Kara-Kum desert, on Taimyr, in Chukotka and improved from year to year. In the winter of 1933-1934. all-terrain vehicles transported goods from the wintering caravan of the first Lena expedition to the island of "Komsomolskaya Pravda". In the spring of 1934, geologists and surveyors made research trips to NATI-3. Despite breakdowns, the machines demonstrated excellent cross-country ability and excellent dynamism compared to tractors. Ultimately, in 1936, samples of the NATI-VZ snowmobile appeared, created, like its predecessors, on the basis of GAZ-AA. After a number of improvements, the car was (on the basis of order No. 12 from the People's Commissariat of Engineering of January 15, 1938) accepted for serial construction at GAZ. The car was named GAZ-60 (B).
"B", like the basic lorry, was equipped with a GAZ-M (M-1) engine, but with a modified cooling system due to the installation of a new fan and a reinforced six-row radiator. The caterpillar track consisted of a frame, a drive axle with two gable wheels that were in frictional engagement with the caterpillar. The drive from the rear axle to the drive axle was carried out by a chain drive. The mover had support and support rollers, as well as a sloth with a tensioner. A special bracket was installed under the front spring, due to which the suspension was rolling. From November 1938 to February 1939 serial drawings were developed. In December 1938 - March 1939 - the technical process. The factory produced stamps and fixtures in January-May 1939. The prototypes were made in October 1938. Constantly passed factory tests, according to the results of which the technical documentation was finalized. In total, a couple of hundred cars were manufactured by the end of the year, and in 1939 almost 700 all-terrain vehicles were manufactured. Cars began to arrive to customers.

In 1939, 691 copies of GAZ-60 cars were handed over to consumers. The serial production machine of 1939 was exhibited at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (later - VDNKh, VVTs). GAZ-60 earned the approval of the public, but the real test was waiting for the all-terrain vehicle not at the exhibition, and not even at the training ground - with the start of the Finnish campaign, it became possible to try all-terrain vehicles in action. Two GAZ all-terrain vehicles were, in particular, on 120 AB, relocated from Ovruch to Ezel Island. 120 AB provided the combat work of 52 SBP and 2AE 38 IAP, which flew over the territory of Finland. There were all-terrain vehicles at shtacorpus-1 and in 139 SD.

Numerous complaints began to come from the military. Especially a lot of comments related to the caterpillars, which quickly wore out, both because of their poor quality and because of defects in the assembly of the propulsion unit, which were not provided for by the distortion project. Also, the military made a number of comments regarding the design of the car, and subsequently demanded the introduction of a mechanism for forced engagement of the caterpillar in order to avoid its stalling from the rollers - this is how the GAZ-60P appeared.

In total, a little more than a thousand GAZ-60s of different series were manufactured. Already at the very beginning of the war, GAZ-60s were a rarity in the troops (often anti-aircraft machine guns were installed on them), and not a single one reached Victory.
Before the war, an attempt was made to install a gas generator on the GAZ-60 in order to adapt the car to work in remote forest and taiga regions of the country. However, due to the too large power loss of the gas-generated vehicle compared to the gasoline version, this project was not developed.