The main highlight of the car with the Zhiguli engine was … a V-belt variator of its own production.
The author spied the idea on the combine harvesters of the time – there he periodically mined belts for his design.
However, they say that the specialized factory in Belaya Tserkov made 14 pairs of the necessary belts for the inventor for free – on the personal order of the director, who respected thinking do-it-yourselfers.
By the way, the inventor received a copyright certificate for his variator.
Homemade cars at the beginning of the perestroika were more in vogue. And the prototype of the universal all-terrain vehicle “Magistr-1600”, made in Kaluga, was planned even for small-scale production. It can be built with only basic equipment in a workshop of 25-30 m2
“Master”, combining the characteristics of different types of cars, passed the control and technical exam at the Scientific and Technical Center of VAZ, received a positive assessment and was tested at the car testing site in Dmitrov.
Mikhail Kolodochkin has been collecting unusual facts from the history of technology for many years. For example, did you know what the “legs” on the headlights of the Zhiguli of the fifth and seventh model were for?
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