GAZ-24-01

The GAZ-24-01 was the taxi version of the GAZ-24 Volga, introduced in 1971 by the Gorky Automobile Plant for work as a cab in the Soviet Union. It had a cheap, easy-to-wash all-vinyl interior, a checkerboard stripe on the front doors, a taximeter under the dash and a low-compression ZMZ-24-01 engine rated at 85 PS that could run on 76 octane fuel, the grade most widely available in the USSR. Volga cabs were first painted in several light colours and later mostly in lime-yellow, and Volgas were almost the only taxis on Soviet streets.