Rare Soviet cars

Rare, unique and simply unusual Soviet cars that you will never see with your own eyes.

IZH-TE (1970)

IZH-TE (1970) – an experimental prototype of a compact passenger car.

ZAZ-1102 “Perspective” (1973)

ZAZ-1102 “Perspective” (1973) – a prototype created as part of work on a new model of a modern small car with front-wheel drive.

GAZ-12A (1949)

GAZ-12A (1949) – an experienced phaeton based on a government limousine, manufactured in 1949 in the amount of two copies.

ZIL “Cheburashka”

ZIL “Cheburashka” is a comic, in-plant name for a series of light trucks.

AZLK 3-5-5 (1972)

AZLK 3-5-5 (1972) – a prototype of prospective car.

GAZ 61-415 (1940)

GAZ 61-415 (1940) – an all-wheel drive version of the experimental Gas 11 pickup truck equipped with a 6-cylinder engine.

GAZ-24-16 Prototype #15 (1966)

GAZ-24-16 Prototype # 15 (1966) – one of the prototypes of the “Volga” GAZ-24, distinguished by a different design of the front part of the body: twin headlights, fine-mesh grille.

GAZ 67-420 (1943)

GAZ 67-420 (1943) – an experimental version of an army SUV with a fully enclosed wooden body.

VAZ-2106 “Tourist”

VAZ-2106 “Tourist” – a prototype of a pickup truck based on the “six” with a built-in tent in the back, the car did not get into mass production.

ZAZ-1102 (1964)

ZAZ-1102 (1964) – one of the first prototypes of a new model of the Zaporozhye Automobile Plant, the future “Tavria”, with a Fastback body.

IZH 2126 Series T (1979)

IZH 2126 Series T (1979) – the first prototype of a small class car, one of the first own developments of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant.

MZMA-402 Moskvich (1955)

MZMA-402 Moskvich (1955) – one of the first prototypes of the popular runabout.

AZLK 2142 “Moskvich” (1990-96)

AZLK 2142 “Moskvich” (1990-96) – an experienced sedan based on the AZLK-2141 and presented to the general public in 1990.

MZMA Moskvich 400/421 (1947)

MZMA Moskvich 400/421 (1947) – a prototype of a five-door station wagon with a partially wooden body (to save metal), created on the basis of a van 400-422.

NAMI-031 (1957)

NAMI-031 (1957) – a prototype of a two-seater microcar equipped with a two-stroke two-cylinder motorcycle engine MD-65 with a volume of 500 cc and a power of 18 hp.

RAF-08 “Spriditis” (1957)

RAF-08 “Spriditis” (1957) – a prototype of an eight-seater minibus with an all-metal wagon-type body and a semi-bearing structure, created on the basis of RAF-10 and equipped with an MZMA-407 engine.

VAZ-2103 “Universal” (1976)

VAZ-2103 “Universal” (1976) – an experimental version of the car VAZ-2103 station wagon, assembled in the amount of three copies by order of the technical management of the plant.

VAZ-2102E (1975)

VAZ-2102E (1975) – an experimental van for carrying cargo and one passenger, created on the basis of the VAZ-2102 station wagon and equipped with an electric power plant. How do you like that, Elon Musk?

VAZ “Half of the seventh”

VAZ “Half of the seventh” – made by order “from above” for Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (or someone from his family), the VAZ-2106 car with design elements of a promising, then only developed “seven” VAZ-2107.

ZAZ-971 (1962)

ZAZ-971 (1962) – a four-wheel drive subcompact utility car, created on the basis of a series of trucks 3AZ-970, units and assemblies ZAZ-965A and 966.