welcome to wacky Wednesday's where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods, and here's this week's winner, am I going to talk about this hippie
mobile or am I going to talk about this Soviet piece of engineering
let's find out
I'm going to talk about my UAZ known as the UAZ stands for ulianov
ski after mobile, which means ulianov automobile plant, this
is a Soviet made light utility vehicle, they started making them in 1971
it replaced the gaz 69 my UAZ is a three one five one three
six oh one, which basically is an export version of the four six nine, the main
difference is that the export version doesn't have the portal axles the ground
clearance is not as good as this one the front seats are not original on this
one these are taken from a Mercedes v2 as you can see from here this is a
Soviet made UAZ, it's from 1988 and I'm not entirely sure what kind of engine it
has, but it's either a 71 horsepower or a seventy-five horsepower engine, that's my
model that's the year it was first registered and this plate is kind of
worn, so it doesn't tell me a lot handbrake for 4 speed gear stick and then
you have the reduction gear and the front
axle, the engine compartment is very roomy so working on the car it's
kind of easy, one of the things I really like about it is that the gas filter the
air filter they're all made so that you don't need to replace them ever, you can
just clean them, which makes it good for self-sufficiency you don't need to buy
new filters you can just clean them forever, this is an oil bath filter so
and you just use the regular engine oil for the oil bath, I have the differential
with very low traction ratio, so it's slow but more powerful, as I mentioned
mine is an export model and it was exported from East
Germany Democratic Republic, and it was used by the
national army which is the Armed Forces of the National
People's Army, before it was purchased by a French
Mirage pilot, had it not been purchased by a person from the French
military there is no way that this car would have been able to be registered as
a legal car here in France, military people have special privileges and then they
sell their cars to civilians like me, which is excellent
the car weighs three thousand six hundred and thirty-eight pounds
according to Wikipedia but according to my record it weighs a little
bit less I have fitted some fairly narrow tires on it, because I need it to
be good for driving in snow, I live in the hills
it has leaf springs and drum brakes, both front and rear
I always bring extra oil because yeah it needs refilling quite often, it's
hot in the summer, it's cold in the winter, although I can open this hatch
here to get air in, and the air is heated, before I put this up it had around 93 95
DB inside the car, the engine is cold and I need to heat
it up quickly I do this it does not have a thermostat, so the
fan is on it at all time it has two fuel tanks, I have installed
some seat belts, as you can see two point seat belts,
about the philosophy behind this car was to make a robust reliable easy to fix
and cheap to make light utility vehicle for the Soviet military, I have made some
repairs on this car but they're mostly due to my own incompetence and mistakes
really, it's pretty crudely made, original color for this is military green but the
the German who purchased this car from the East German army painted it white
and when I got it, I repainted it as you can see rather crudely but still with a
brush, top speed is about a hundred kilometers per hour, it has the on road
capabilities of a 1950s Western tractor, but it also has the off road
abilities of a tractor so I'm all happy, many former Warsaw Pact countries are
still using this utility vehicle, because they really don't break down a lot they
do last a very long time as they were made or designed to, and I may add that
they were designed to last forever because the Soviet Union didn't have all
that much resources, they had to make use of what they had in the best manner, the
production cost for this car is so low that you could probably make 20 or maybe
even 30 and the light utility vehicles like this for every one Hummer h1, to sum
it up, it's uncomfortable, it's dangerous, and it's slow, but it has very good
from capabilities and it's designed to last forever and if it doesn't it's
because of Soviet incompetence, not because of planned obsolescence, by all
Western standards it's a piece of junk that lasts a very long time
but I like it well that was this week's video and to
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