GAZ Chaika drives for the first time in 30 years - Practical Classics magazine

Sam Glover's GAZ Chaika drives for the first time in 30 years

[@CEOkiller]

Trunk capacity was measured by how many Enemies of the State could fit in it...

[@WheelsRCool]

Meilenwerker He was joking.

[@WheelsRCool]

Meilenwerker Some of the best jokes about Communism came from the Soviets themselves.

[@MrWolfSnack]

Two guards were patroling at night and one of the guards told a man to halt, he started running and he shot him. The other guard asked, "why did you shoot him?" He replied, "curfew" "But Curfew doesn't start for another hour." "That's okay, he's my freind, I know he wouldn't make it."

[@leejackson4724]

CEOkiller by the time your enemies arrived at their destination and got out of the trunk they would be dead this saves on bullets

[@leejackson4724]

Kyle Blank I have a good one." How can you tell when a Soviet sailor serves on the submarine Fleet? He glows in the dark!" Got that from Tom Clancy book I don't remember which it might have been Hunt for Red October

[@dopplerfox]

Engine noise: GREGREGRETGREGREGRET Gearbox noise: THBUNK

[@dokichokei]

Everybody gangsta till a Chaika parks in their driveway

[@kobra6660]

Until the secret police show up in one than everyone acts like they should

[@bzert281]

Whoa, shades of Stephen King. Christine...meet Olga.

[@jakekaywell5972]

I think Svetlana would be more appropriate. Olga is very Scandinavian.

[@sterlinsilver]

The crazy part is that if you saw this car in the soviet union, you would be just about as scared of it too! This was only reserved for high ranking politicians and KGB officials. If this was parked outside of your house, bad things were about to happen

[@potterxt600ttr250c90]

Sounds awesome don't replace the exhaust it sounds evil like it is

[@garage5125]

you did not hear revving that thing, it sounds really well

[@debwood1999]

Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear says you can chop up 30 dissidents in the backseat of this beast!;)

[@halowraith1]

my god you are salty

[@JanKowalski-ic6np]

Clarkson is an idiot, and ignorant

[@MrSteamywindows]

That is one evil looking car. Reminds me of Christine

[@zaimkarii1756]

Evil and cool looking. Imagine people are going to be confuse with american car 😂

[@the-highland-bagpiper]

Imagine that pulling up outside your house at 3 in the morning to come and take you away, never to be seen again!

[@dougodyssey50]

you can literally put it in H.

[@Mr.McQueen]

I came here looking for an anime girl and I’m not disappointed

[@elbee1992]

all the failings of the USSR are forgiven thanks to this things incredibly mean exhaust note

[@RhFinland]

Soviet V engines have much better sound than USA engines. USA engines are made too well to make real noice :

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Soviet GAZ13 / GAZ66 V8 petrol engines based on italian FIAT 140 prototypes :-)

[@VinylToVideo]

@@RhFinland This was an American engine lol

[@jakekaywell5972]

@@VinylToVideo Except it wasn't. The V8 in here was directly transplanted from the GAZ 53 truck and is of an original Soviet design.

[@garage5125]

@@RhFinland this engine lasts way longer, this was originally a truck engine, americans used crap thin blocks, heads, and so. they were even using petrol engine parts for diesel engines, russian engines... they are the most durable i know. they start in -30 degrees C, even in -50 degrees, the american ones are refusing to start in -5:-))

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Did you know that the full aluminium V8 of the soviet Tschaika was a complete HQ FIAT construction intended for the FIAT 4500 president car (later called 140 V8) project, than abandoned and all plans sold to russia? SV Rostkov than moded the engine for worse russian fuel and enlarged the piston diameter to 5400 cc, the first 4500 cc OHV V8 petrol engines engine prototypes were built in Fiats turin engine division plant during the 1950s later in USSR Gorki as 5400cc. In some aspects the GAZ13 is very similar to the inline 4 and 6 engines later constructed by Aurelio Lampredi for the 2100 and 2300 mass market cars. During the late 1960s there was an italian made FIAT 130 prototype (4500cc 220HP) sedan fitted with one of the high compression ratio italian made lightweight full alloy V8 engines from the 50s, but buying back the engine tools from USSR would be impossible / too expensive...so FIAT 130 got the OHC V6 2800 and 3200.

[@4yBaK100]

Chaika has an aluminum motor V8 5.5 liters of original Soviet construction. Chaika V8 is not Copy of Fiat .

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Design and origin of the GAZ V8 is Italy of the late 1950s: zf24.de/fiat/fiat140.htm

[@Schlipperschlopper]

This aluminium V8 engine (started as 4200cc italian prototype) was designed in Italy / Fiat by Rambaldo Bruschi, Ing. Cesare Tonegutti, Franco Bertoldi later blueprints of this engine and even parts and plans of the whole never built large Fiat 140 V8 statesman car sold to USSR there modified with larger bore by SV Rostkov @GAZ, so its notz a copy its just a Fiat licence built engine with some further developed aspects. gazoline.net/article2.php?id_article=2049

[@antiteroristickejedinicepo4830]

Thats packard engine

[@alanmalan2644]

Shioertchoper Chaika isn't Tchayka , Chaika is bird

[@delosdmi]

Very nice old car, I want to buy one and ship it to the United States.

[@sheldonv8]

Nice shed Sam....I mean the one in the background!!!!

[@jevege1137]

I like the old ones ! (Member TRN)

[@richardgadberry8398]

Shocking truth!

[@brwchm2023]

5,5L V8 ?

[@yveskonig4510]

5,53L v8 lmao

[@garage5125]

yes, this engine was 5,5 liter v8, however, that engine was way better than new ones, in fact it was a truck engine, which meaned it is very robust, really great engine

[@C4atm]

Last time I heard an engine note like that I was next to a Massey Ferguson!!!! :-)

[@st3fan72]

can i have a sound modul with exaclty that sound for my electrical car ? OMG, musthave

[@mannequinfukr]

I really wish i have the money to either get this or the gaz 24 volga with the v8 in it

[@garage5125]

and enough money for fuel:-)) they drink more than 10 gopniks together:-))

[@SibbyStiggy]

I want 1!

[@garage5125]

i want 20!!

[@Jonathan-dq8hb]

Looks like a '56 Packard.

[@user-yc8km5np7m]

Fair play Sam,saved another relic of the eastern bloc,with some dedicated tinkering. Want to find something like that in a barn,but probably don't have the skills to get it running&be worried that bits are non existant as I have no contacts on the other side of the Iron Curtain! I'll have to content myself with stuff from this side of the Berlin wall& keeping old Mercs S classes running.Parts support is superb &the old German limos run forever.I keep east/west divide going tho,have to be pre 89!

[@staticcorvette5998]

I would have never imagined myself saying I like communist cars, but this Chaika has changed my mind...

[@santiirigoyen3334]

Sound looks like a old Christine!

[@snakeplissken5493]

Looks much like an old Packard.

[@leejackson4724]

Snake Plissken I'd say about a 56 Packard

[@misters2837]

@@leejackson4724 A Little 56 Lincoln in there...

[@zlunazelena4080]

Yes, chaika was inspired by packard

[@MrClassiccarenthusia]

It has the roughty sound of an engine with piston slap, hourglass valve guides, 46° port mating face with 45° valves, a spun main bearing, low oil pressure and yet it still runs and drives just as well as the day it left the factory! 👻

[@user-bw3bn7cg2x]

звучек красивый

[@kirksway1]

sounds like an old farm truck

[@zlunazelena4080]

Because it pretty much had a military truck engine😀

[@garage5125]

there is nothing to say about it... russian cars... they survive sooo much, you cannot find a more reliable car

[@paulwlynch]

How about a classic Russian feature or a cold war feature especially with the Lada Riva production finally ending this year.

[@alanmalan2644]

How about US feature or cold war feature that ever plant in Detroit still abandoned and Oldsmobile Dodge Charger is shirt and what about "British" cars where Rols Roys, Bently and Land Rover cars are indian and China bought Yaguar from Ford and what about British volvo that sold shveden and bought chinese too ??? Is it mean that England haven't car industry anymore

[@zohandahvir3240]

I would love to own one of this monsters. It's pretty wide,Chrome trims everywhere,more luxurious than a mercedes,and sounds like a Big car going to Terminate u

[@zohandahvir3240]

i like one. it's as wide as a hudsons wider i think and it has 4 doors and communism style interior

[@user-pn2sj7ye2q]

Круче Чайки зверя нет - Это знает целый свет!

[@TheWierdFish]

Sounds terrible, looks diabolical... to whom else could it belong but Mr Glover? :)