Exhibits of the UMMC Automobile Equipment Museum took part in the traditional 11th festival of retro cars of the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta". June 12, 2018 on the Day of Russia car festival was held in a new place - in Verkhnyaya Pyshma at the "Ice Arena named after Alexander Kozitsyn, on the site of extreme sports. In addition to the oldtimer exhibition itself, figure-driving competitions were held. Spectators managed to see at least fifty rare cars and motorcycles.
One of the main themes of the festival was the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian engineer, chief designer of GAZ in the 1930s and 1940s, the winner of the five Stalin Prizes of Andrei Alexandrovich Lipgart (June 16, 1898 - March 20, 1980). The fruits of his work are not only a few dozen cars and trucks that designed and assembled at car factories in Gorky and Miass, but, without exaggeration, the entire domestic design school. "He created a harmonious and strong design ensemble, and his sound was great" - wrote Nikolay Dobrovolsky, photographer of the Gorky Automobile Plant. The design school of GAZ had a huge influence on the formation of design divisions at almost all automobile plants of the USSR: ZIL, AZLK, UAZ, MAZ, VAZ and others..
In 2018 the Automobile Technology Museum of UMMC took part in this festival for the third time. Proceeding from the exhibition theme announced by the organizers, the museum showed four exhibits: GAZ-M20B Pobeda, GAZ-21V Volga, GAZ-51 AM-3 and GAZ-69.
Each of the cars presented at the exhibition is something unique:.
GAZ M-20B "Pobeda" - a cabriolet presented in the exposition of the Automobile Engineering Museum of UMMC, was produced from 1949-1953. The production of this car is associated with the release of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of May 17, 1948 "On the production of cars with an open body". There is a shortage of cold steel in the country, cars with minimal use of sheet metal are needed. A total of 14 222 cabriolet came off the assembly line. Now, "Victory" in the body of a cabriolet is a rarity among collectors. In general, the "Victory", in the body of a cabriolet or not - is a very modern car for its time with a mass of advanced technical solutions on world standards and a landmark machine in the history of the domestic automotive industry.
The exhibition was attended by the "Volga" of the so-called first series. To date, machines produced from 1956 to 1958 and having a characteristic grid of a radiator with a star are the rarest and most valuable "Volga". Meanwhile, the car was conceived with a different design of the front end, and the car with the star was acquired almost by accident. According to the tradition established since the 1930s, each new model must be approved by the country's leadership before the release. In 1956, the new model of the Gorky Automobile Plant was adopted by Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov. Offered by the gas artists version of the radiator facing with vertical slots he strongly disliked. To correct the "shortcoming" the minister gave two weeks. During this time a new version was created with one of the main symbols of the USSR - a star. Such an option was accepted for production, and 32 thousand cars produced in the next 2 years had exactly such a grate.
GAZ-51 became the most massive domestic truck:
from June 1946 to April 1975, was issued 3 481 033 cars. The Automobile Technology Museum of UMMC will present at the exhibition not just a GAZ-51 on-board truck with a payload capacity of 2.5 tons, but a special vehicle - GAZ-51 AM-3 (police car number 3). The car was intended for personnel of police stations. Such a car the amateur of the domestic cinema met in the films of Leonid Gaidai - the comedies "The Moonshiners" (1961) and "Operation" Y "and other adventures of Shurik" (1967).