To answer your first question: It's a GAZ 21 Volga produced by Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod -- you know, Gorky Automobile Factory -- from 1956 till 1970, when it was replaced by the GAZ 24.

Russian automaker GAZ (Gorky Automobile Plant) has abandoned plans to euthanize its production of Volga cars, announcing plans to refurbish them as 'historical products.' ...

Appearing in 1956, GAZ-21 was the first car in the Volga series. A black car with special blue salon was presented to Yuri Gagarin after his famous flight into space in 1961.

History Of The Volga What is today known as the Russian automaker GAZ was founded in 1929. A technology-sharing agreement was reached with the U.S. Ford Motor Company and the foundations were laid ...

Volga GAZ-3111 executive sedan, via CarsBase.com. All would have reportedly been priced aggressively, starting as low as $5,000 for the compact, $8,000 for the GAZelle truck, ...

My Volga is a Series 3 GAZ-21. GAZ built more than 635,000 of them from 1956 to 1970. The last one rolled down the assembly line in July 1970, with the model GAZ-22 right behind it.

I was jealous when Jay Ramey street-spotted a GAZ-21 Volga a few years back (sadly, not a red-star-wheel-equipped Glorious Stalinmobile), but now the Down on the Street series presents an example ...

The GAZ M21 Volga was developed in the early 1950’s, entering production in 1956 and going out in 1970. The basic model represented the whole communist idea - simple mechanics, tank robustness ...

So GAZ is risking being politically incorrect for its revamped Volga sedan. An ad in national newspaper Argumenty and Fakty pictures a smiling man saying, Volga -- like wife. Only a new one!

An older model produced by the automaker, the GAZ Volga 31105, was removed from its lineup earlier this year and no further car models will be launched under this marque.

That’s what makes this 1966 Gaz Volga 21 on Canadian auto sales site Kijiji so brilliant. It’s beautiful and looks completely stock aside from the wheels, yet under the hood is the V6 out of a ...

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