In accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of November 30, 1961, the Gorky Automobile Plant manufactured prototypes of GAZ-53S vehicles intended for use in the Far North.
The cabin received double glazing and improved thermal insulation – they used sponge rubber, foam rubber and cardboard. The battery is a high capacity battery mounted under the hood rather than under the driver’s seat. The electric fan of the cooling system was triggered by a temperature sensor. All rubber products and technical fluids are the most frost-resistant they were at the time.
Five GAZ-53S have been tested in Yakutia and the Magadan region in garage-less storage conditions and temperatures down to -60ºC. The cars received a lot of commentary – as a result, the release of this northern modification was never mastered.
Mikhail Kolodochkin has been collecting unusual facts from the history of technology for many years. Did you know, for example, that the predecessor of that same “shishiga” was an eight-wheeled all-terrain vehicle?
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