GAZ-415

The GAZ-415 was a pickup truck, the cargo version of the GAZ-M1 Emka passenger car, made at the Gorky Automobile Plant in the Soviet Union. It kept the frame, running gear and front bodywork of the M-1, which let the factory raise output of this passenger and load carrier quickly. It could carry two people and 500 kilograms of load, or eight people with six on folding benches, and its engine produced 50 horsepower at 2,800 revolutions per minute. A pre-series pickup was shown in 1937 and series production ran from 1939 to 1941, with 5,383 built. Prototypes followed on the six-cylinder GAZ-11-73 sedan, the GAZ-11-415 and the four-wheel-drive GAZ-61-415, and a small batch of GAZ-61-417 pickups was made in 1941. Most pickups went to the army and many were lost in the first months of the war.