The car, by the way, was called “comfortable”!
“Loaf” UAZ‑452 often became the object for all sorts of improvements and alterations.
Another attempt in the mid-70s was made at the Chernihiv Special Vehicles Plant (ChZSA).
An experimental comfortable minibus Desna for 11 seats, using the 452nd chassis, has found new body panels made from scratch.
But the fate of the car, as often happens, was decided by the lack of funding: it did not go into the series.
Mikhail Kolodochkin has been collecting unusual facts from the history of technology for many years. For example, did you know that we wanted to produce a hatch with sliding doors?
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Homemade from the USSR: for those who did not come out tall. We read about it here. “Behind the wheel” can be read in Odnoklassniki.
Photo: “Behind the wheel”, YouTube video screenshot, from the author’s archive
