The GAZ-64 is a jeep from GAZ, built from 1941 to 1942, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. Under the bonnet: 3.3L GAZ M1 I4.
How it came about
The GAZ-64 was a 4x4 vehicle made by GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, translated as Gorky Automobile Plant, which originally was a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union), succeeding the earlier GAZ-61. Its design was led by Vitaliy Grachev. The design process was exceptionally quick, taking only a few weeks.
The hardware
Power comes from 3.3L GAZ M1 I4. It weighs 1200 kg. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the GAZ-61; its successor was the GAZ-67 / GAZ-67B; assembly was at Gorky, Ulyanovsk, Soviet Union. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lincoln Continental, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Ford 1941 Ford — show what else the money bought that year. Its GAZ stablemates include the Chaika and the GAZ 24-24.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the GAZ-64 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.