Soviet GAZ-M73 «Ukrainian», 1954

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Soviet leadership decided to build all soviet personal cars, like Ladas, for frequent off-roading or offroad-adjacent travel on rutted dirt roads instead of investing in proper roads and infrastructure. New Ladas were sold with an impressive tool kit that were absolutely required to keep the car in running order.

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Zdrobot@reddit

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbpt\_A4QuMc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbpt_A4QuMc) Turn on subtitles (Ukrainian/auto-generated), then turn on automatic translation into English.

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syringistic@reddit

Lol this is like if someone saw an American car of the era and then tried to build it from memory.

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L3sh1y@reddit

The round ponton style was en vogue everywhere at that time, in Europe too. But he Gaz guys sure took an eyeful of american styling, just adapted for russian trails

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Zdrobot@reddit

GAZ historically had a tendency towards American-based designs. If I'm not mistaken the factory was initially designed / built with Ford assistance: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ?useskin=vector](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ?useskin=vector) and they manufactured Ford cars from the get go.

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