GAZ-51
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The GAZ-51 (Russian: ГАЗ-51) is a light truck manufactured by the Soviet vehicle manufacturer Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod. The vehicle was designed before the Second World War and mass-produced together with the all-wheel-drive version GAZ-63 after the end of the war. Under the designation GAZ-93, a tipper was produced on the basis of the GAZ-51.
Key facts
- Automobile.name
- GAZ-51
- Automobile.image
- GAZ-51_during_the_VII_Aircraft_Picnic_in_Kraków.jpg
- Automobile.manufacturer
- GAZ
- Automobile.aka
- FSC Lublin-51 (Poland)Sungri-58 (North Korea)Yuejin NJ-130 (China)
- Automobile.production
- 1946–1979 (production in the USSR halted in 1975)
- Automobile.layout
- FR layout
- Automobile.engine
- 3.5L GAZ-51 I6
- Automobile.transmission
- 4-speed manual
- Automobile.predecessor
- GAZ-MM
- Automobile.successor
- GAZ-53GAZ-66
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Variants
- GAZ-63
- Technical data
- Operators
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
The GAZ-51 (Russian: ГАЗ-51) is a light truck manufactured by the Soviet vehicle manufacturer Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod. The vehicle was designed before the Second World War and mass-produced together with the all-wheel-drive version GAZ-63 after the end of the war. Under the designation GAZ-93, a tipper was produced on the basis of the GAZ-51.
The GAZ-51 was a 4x2 2.5 ton truck while the GAZ-63 had all-wheel drive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GAZ-51” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.