It's true. Also nobody had V8s in Soviet Union except KGB (which is REALLY not communistic), which also killed millions of their own people. It was a mafia.
Imagine heearing this thing behind you cruising in your LADA or MOSKVITCH it would have been the last thing you would want to hear. They were exclusively issued to KGB AGENTS
You wouldn't see V8 GAZ-24-24s on the road at all. They were not used for standard KGB arrests. They were to escort the General Secretary and other important politicians on parades and were also supposed to be used as pursuit vehicles but car chases were not regular in the USSR, especially ones that would require high performance chase vehicles.
They weren’t all used by the kgb, although you could get an application to get them, if you had the rubles, some were given to officials and people who could afford them, like architects or engineers.
I recall there was an aston martin v8 vantage in forza motorsport 4 that sounded exactly like this at low revs and i had it as a dream car one time because of its unique sound,but then realised an old russian sedan has the same sound,i want it too
how much do these cars cost`? cant find any for sale at the moment and i would realy like to have one. The GAZ 2424 has long been my dream car and i cant find them. do you know where i might find some?
I've got one in 1998 for around $300. 1978 year 5.5 v8 automatic. It was considered a piece of trash at the time. Scrapped it in 2001 for a little discound buying a new Lada Niva. Wish I'd keep it, they cost fortune now.
I think the easiest thing to do (although it is not as cool) is to buy the peasant version with the 4 cylinder engine and then swap a V8 into it. Of course, that way you don't get the KGB heritage with it :p
zf24.de/fiat/fiat140.htm Very interesting over view of the GAZ v8 and its Italian origins. I don't think this is a reverse engineered Packard v8 as this Fiat v8 has some resemblance to a GAZ v8. It does share the Small Block ford (289/302/351W) firing order, but that is about it. Some have said it looks like a Ford Y block, but this motor is an alloy block with wet liners. GM did not even use this technology until the 80s and only REO used it in the 50s in their trucks. I definitely think this is not a reverse engineered Packard v8. Most likely that Fiat sold the license and the tooling for this v8 to GAZ for use in the Chaika. They had to enlarge the engine by putting a longer stroke crankshaft due to the poor gas at the time in the Soviet Union. Article is in German, but still fascinating in Google Translate.
Если это не секс, то что тогда ??? На Волге с таким двигателем не хочется даже "наваливать" , а хочется просто катится по пустынной трассе или набережной на низких оборотах.
