Meanwhile, back in the USSR

[Terry NJ]

M2M, once again, Thank you for posting this. Very interesting! We get so little on Soviet era vehicles! For better or worse, they certainly had them. I always consider the direction of the engineering and design of the two competing systems. Thanks again!
Terry

 

[M2M]

It's a pity there's little info in English about these Russian Fords. They made some interesting variants and production continued until the 1950s. Do the suppliers sell ANY books that mention these cars?


Anyway, if anyone wants a book or scale model of a GAZ A/AA/AAA for their collection let me know and I'll try to find one when I'm next in Russia. Although, I think you'll find them on eBay. I'm going to try to track down a GAZ 67b 4x4 driveline with a banjo front axle.

The Holy Grail of barn finds, the GAZ-AAAA

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

The front license plate in posting #22 reads "проба гн", which means "test", "experiment", the same as what "Probe" means in German. Perhaps this was a Russian prototype truck or a test vehicle. I don't know what the "гн" stands for. It's equivalent to our "GN". Possibly it refers to a location or assembly plant?
Marshall

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

By the way, the name on the bottom model kit box means "Soviet Army Tri-axle Truck"
M.

 

[M2M]

These scale model kits are worth buying for the artwork on the box.

First one seems to show a GAZ AA (or maybe MM) in WW2 stripped form of no front brakes, one headlight, wooden doors, canvas top in a convoy on the Road of Life during the Leningrad siege. See:

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235201

Second kit shows a GAZ-AAA with a famous WW2 propaganda poster on a buildling in the background.

 

[Brad in Germany]

Ref post #22, maybe it was a prototype for the GAZ-60:

 

[M2M]

I think our American friends might be missing some images of the Stars and Stripes so here's a WW2 Russian propaganda poster just for for you. Flags are arranged in the seating order of this photo:

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

The words beneath the black wolf on the poster read: "So will it be with the fascist beast!"
Marshall

 

[Terry NJ]

Good Catch, Marshall! ProBa =Test Tell me, How're you getting the Cyrillic alphabet on an American keyboard?
Terry

The front license plate in posting #22 reads "проbа гн", which means "test", "experiment", the same as what "Probe" means in German. Perhaps this was a Russian prototype truck or a test vehicle. I don't know what the "гн" stands for. It's equivalent to our "GN". Possibly it refers to a location or assembly plant?
Marshall

 

[Terry NJ]

M2M, Can you explain to me the exact meaning of the word "RODINA" and the phrase "RODINA Mother"?
Thanks, Terry

These scale model kits are worth buying for the artwork on the box.

First one seems to show a GAZ AA (or maybe MM) in WW2 stripped form of no front brakes, one headlight, wooden doors, canvas top in a convoy on the Road of Life during the Leningrad siege. See:

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=235201

Second kit shows a GAZ-AAA with a famous WW2 propaganda poster on a buildling in the background.

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

Terry -
Over the past couple long, cold winters here, at night I picked up studying Russian again from my college major days 47 years ago (also German). This website allows you to pick the Cyrillic alphabet letters and place them in a window to get the word's translation and examples of its usage in sentences. My text books are almost 50 years old, so this up-to-date website helps bring me into the 21st Century in terms of a living, ever-changing language. Although like any on-line tool it is not foolproof and doesn't always help, it's still a pretty good resource if you have a basic working knowledge of the Russian language and its alphabet. Try it out for grins and giggles: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_translation.htm.
Once you have transferred letters into the window, you can copy and paste them, as I have done above. Note that I grabbed the wrong letter for "b". It should have read "проба", not "проьа". The program didn't goof - I DID!
Marshall

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

"M2M, Can you explain to me the exact meaning of the word "RODINA" and the phrase "RODINA Mother"?"

родина = Homeland, basically "Mother(land) Russia"

Marshall

 

[updraught]

Bought this, together with a AAA and a couple of GAZ 67b kits from the basement of a small hardware store in Berkley USA about 10 years ago.

It was memorable as I took them to a nearby courier to send home and they wanted US$160 to do that.

There is a real 67b here somewhere that was captured in Korea. Saw it at a swap meet.

 

[M2M]

Bought this, together with a AAA and a couple of GAZ 67b kits from the basement of a small hardware store in Berkley USA about 10 years ago.

It was memorable as I took them to a nearby courier to send home and they wanted US$160 to do that.

There is a real 67b here somewhere that was captured in Korea. Saw it at a swap meet.

Nice D-8 armored car kit. For info on these vehicles, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-8_Armored_Car


I know the GAZ-67b captured from the North Koreans you mentioned, and it's owner in Melbourne (unless he has sold it). See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7E2GioDZBo

He was wanting to sell but was asking way too much IMHO, despite the car's amazing history.

 

[updraught]

https://ru-clip.com/video/jspQ5QPRQTE/gaz-67-jeep-weapons-of-victory.html

GAZ 67 video

 

[Terry NJ]

No you didn't goof! I did! I accidentally made the original disappear and I couldn't make it right, so I did the next best thing, I slipped in a english "B". I don't own a Russian text book, never had a Russian lesson in my life. I lived with a "Colony" of White Russians (Cassville, NJ) and I worked with them as a Machinist. Also, There was a Russian Language newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo, which was kind of ubiquitous around the shop. When I was in the "House" I taught myself the alphabet. Having some German ancestors, Ich Hat der Deutsch sprache Gelernte (Kleinish Bitte) I was a HS dropout. I wonder what I could have done with a formal education. Und So, "Rodina" means homeland like "Heimat" in German.
Terry

Terry -
Over the past couple long, cold winters here, at night I picked up studying Russian again from my college major days 47 years ago (also German). This website allows you to pick the Cyrillic alphabet letters and place them in a window to get the word's translation and examples of its usage in sentences. My text books are almost 50 years old, so this up-to-date website helps bring me into the 21st Century in terms of a living, ever-changing language. Although like any on-line tool it is not foolproof and doesn't always help, it's still a pretty good resource if you have a basic working knowledge of the Russian language and its alphabet. Try it out for grins and giggles: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_translation.htm.
Once you have transferred letters into the window, you can copy and paste them, as I have done above. Note that I grabbed the wrong letter for "b". It should have read "проба", not "проьа". The program didn't goof - I DID!
Marshall

 

[Marshall V. Daut]

"Novoye Russkoye Slovo" = "(The) New Russian Word"

M.

 

[M2M]

The GAZ-AAA scale model kit is only $13 plus shipping, see:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zvezda-3547-Soviet-Truck-3-Axle-GAZ-AAA-1-35/153037740210?

These "Zvezda" brand kits are made in Russia under license from GAZ !!!

 

[updraught]

Looks like I can buy 3 of those kits (Lithuania) and ship them here for US$16.

That's 1/10th of the price of shipping from the USA 10 years ago.

Do they build ships in Lithuania?

 

[M2M]

Do they build ships in Lithuania?

Yes I think, see:

http://www.wsy.lt/en/