1939-1941 ZIS-101A 4-Door Sedan - a photo on Flickriver

1939-1941 ZIS-101A 4-Door Sedan

            I would like you to join me into the early history of the Russian automobile industry.
Russia knew a few automobile manufacturers in the first quarter of the 20th Century, (thanks Anton VG for the lacking info) but until the 1920s vehicle industry in general was mainly limited to utility and agricultural vehicles, and for transport of goods and raw materials.
Contacts with Ford offered better quality trucks like the GAZ-AA truck (or NAZ-AA as it was called in the first production year). Later also a passenger car was developed, the GAZ-A Sedan (or NAZ-A).

This image is taken from a book which is one of the best sources for older Eastern European cars: Kraftfahrzeuge der DDR, from car journalist Werner Oswald (1920-1997).
The picture shows the 7-passenger ZIS-101A limousine sedan, the renewed version of the 101 (note the new grille).
The ZIS-101 was more or less the successor of the experimental L-1 sedan (see previous pictures). The 101 was technically based on the Buick 33-90, although the body was redesigned by GAZ car designer Valentin Brodskiy. Budd Company, Philadelphia, US made the machinery and stamping equipment.
The ZIS-101 was the first high class production passenger car in the Sovjet Union. It had all kinds of luxury details like a glass compartment dividing window, a thermostat and car heating.
A 4-door convertible was added in 1938: the ZIS-102 (till 1940).
About 8000 101/101A sedans were built.
The ZIS 101/101A series was replaced by the ZIS-110 range.

5766 cc L8 Buick engine.
Performance: 116 bhp.
C. 2550 kg.
Production ZIS-101 series: 1936-1939/1939-1941.
Production ZIS-101A this version: 1939-1941.
Old SU reg. number.

Photo source:
Werner Oswald, Kraftfahrzeuge der DDR, Motor Buch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1998.
Original photographer unknown.
Location: somewhere in SU.
Date: mid 1980s.

Halfweg, Jan. 1, 2025.

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