Hummer is for sissies...

[Staga]

Real men drive GAZs...

Friend's GAZ-66; Russian made 4WD truck (Ex-Finnish Army radio relay car).
4,25l V-8 (copy of Ford 260cid), 125hp, plenty of locks in differentials, possibility to raise/lower pressure in wheels when on move (handy in swamp).

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005001.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005002.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005003.jpg
(Big knob is for the shifter and bump in rear wall is for the driver's knuckles; without it you wouldn't be able to pull the shifter for reverse)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005004.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/gaz66/02082005005.jpg

Beautiful car isn't it?

[Maverick]

Looke like it needs attention. Don't you have a shot of the entire vehicle? Preferably a side shot.

[Hangtime]

Item.. that's no 'car'.

Item.. That's not an SUV, either.

Item.. Ahhhhhnold, Emporer of Kalifornia would not approve.

Item.. driving more than one on a US freeway would spur an immediate knee jerk reaction from the local national guard; they'd assume 'invasion' and promptly call in air support.

Item.. our interstate highways have speed limits, both minimum and maximum. While it's certain it could never get to the maximum, it's pretty doubtful the silly thing could obtain the minimum either.

Item.. most blondes could not parallel park that thing... and it would clash with their lip color.

Item.. Most gas pumps have a fifty dollar max... which would get that thing to the next gas station in a city, not the country.

Item: If i lived some place that had a refinery, no roads and no air national guard I'd still have a jeep. At least i can get parts for a jeep.

Need I go on?

(looks like fun Staga.. would love a ride in that thing cross country)

[mosgood]

Woops.... misunderstood the subject line of thread....  wrong hummer.  

[Wolfala]

Hang,

For an eco-concious Kalifornia - its ironic how we have more SUV's per capita then any state in the union.

BTW, GAZ's are for failed pimps. You want something worth yr time in purgatory, get a Ural that gets 200 liters / 100km. That'll show ya a dent in yr wallet.

[Staga]

No side shots sorry; it was between my friend's house and quite steep hill...
I'm sure there's plenty of pics around the web if you use google.

Quite similar:
http://www.pvo.webz.cz/images/gaz66b.jpg
More here:
http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/gaz66/Gaz66.htm

Wolfala; I think Ural and KrAZ are about the same weight but latter looks like you could drive it thru the demolition derby and nobody wouldn't have the balls to touch it...

KrAZ:
http://www.ukrinmash.ua/picgruz/kraz-255a.jpg

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Staga
Real men drive GAZs...

Real men dont care what they drive as long as its safe for their kids and family.

[Furball]

Originally posted by Staga

Beautiful car isn't it?

.....

please promise never to post pictures of your wife.

[Staga]

btw that thing is lighter than a fullsize Suburban and goes over ditches like nothing. Friend had 3 tree trunks in his back yard and after lowering pressures in tires it went over them without diff.locks connected.
Volvo C303 needed locks on and a Dodge Ram needed winch.
It also climbed quite high and steep step from the woods to the back yard without a sweat with idle. Strange machine but looks ugly as hell.


btw those pics were taken with Nokia 6680; gotta love these new cellphones



Edit:
Can you imagine a nice looking girl climbing in wearing a mini skirt?








I knew you could ;D

[lazs2]

how well does it cruise at 80mph on the freeway and how good is the air conditioning.... what are 0-60 times?

lazs

[Xjazz]

Originally posted by lazs2
how well does it cruise at 80mph on the freeway and how good is the air conditioning.... what are 0-60 times?

lazs

Irrelevant homeboy issues when real mans are heading to midsummer party at "Kuusenpersiis" (far far backwoods)

[Staga]

I don't think it goes 80mph even in downhill but with it you can drive straight to your livingroom thru the walls even if you happen to live in a middle of the swamp like a true redneck.

It won't have an AC but who needs it when you can carry a freezer in the back.
And a TV
And a DVD player.
And a kitchen
And a waterbed if you like
And nobody wouldn't be surprised to see a satellite dish in the roof; especially if in camo paint

Dunno about the acceleration but the sound when I started it made my back hair grow couple inches.

I think I'd rather take a Hummer but I have to admit that GAZ would turn more heads when driving in the city.

Or in swamp

Anyways it's so frigging ugly you just have to like it  

[DREDIOCK]

That has got to be one of the ulgiest hunks of peiced together scrap metal I've seen in a very long time. LOL

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Staga
KrAZ:
http://www.ukrinmash.ua/picgruz/kraz-255a.jpg

Wolfala, Ural consumes 200L/100km only offroad You saw that offroad here in Russia means "antitank fences" in the West

Staga, this KrAZ is am underfed kid compared to KrAZ model used to tow logs from tree-cutting grounds that I have seen in Urals. Imaginethe same truck only a meter taller and roaring through a 1 meter thick mud...

GaZ-66 is the best off-road vehicle known here. If it gets stuck in mud - then you need a tank to pull it out, a DT-75 tracktor wil get stuck 500m before Shishiga (nickname in Moscow, in Leningrad it's nicknamed Gashishka).

They stopped making them in 1996. Silly bastards. Now they produce millions of GaZelle 1.5 ton trucks, copies of Ford Transit, so  we have a vehicle for former taxi-drivers to block all Moscow traffic.

Originally GaZ factory was a 1927 Ford factory bought by USSR in 1932, it produced Ford-A cars and Ford-AA 1.5 ton trucks, labeled as GaZ-A and GaZ-AA. So they finally turned back to making copies of American 1.5 ton trucks.

[Holden McGroin]

 This guy dropped by my house last summer...