The Soviet car industry boasts a huge number of models released for mass production. There are also such stories when the concepts of individual cars never got a ticket to life. However, only a few knew about some cars that hit the conveyor and boasted excellent technical characteristics. And all because these concepts were not originally designed for public viewing. This is how one can explain why the ZIL 113G truck, which is considered one of the fastest in the entire history of the Soviet automobile industry, has practically never been seen.
The legendary Soviet automobile plant ZIL produced high-quality cars that fully met the standards of that time. Therefore, it is not surprising that this particular concern was given an order to create not an everyday car, but something unique, which no one had ever done before. True, this time we are talking about a model that very few people have seen even after launching into production.
The concept of a truck called ZIL 113G was created in the seventies of the last century, and from the very beginning of its development it production was not advertised, and therefore information about both why it was designed and its technical characteristics is available few. However, even the available data can boggle the imagination.
So, for example, a slightly modernized cab from the ZIL 131 model was taken as the basis for a new truck, and a body covered with an awning was left behind. As for the technical characteristics directly, the car had a little bit, a seven-liter eight-cylinder engine with a capacity of 300 hp.
Such a strong unit allowed the secret truck to pick up speed up to 170 km / h. Accordingly, the ordinary one, and the majority of government cars, were simply not capable of catching up with it. At the same time, inside, according to the Novate.ru editorial office, it was quite comfortably furnished. For example, it is known that the ZIL 113G interior was covered with leather, and, in addition, an air conditioner was installed there.
The truck, although it was mass-produced, it is not known exactly how many of them were assembled. The current location, as well as whether such trucks have survived to this day, is unknown. The only information about the fate of these trucks suggests that the last copy was dismantled for metal back in 2000. In any case, today you will not see such cars on the streets, although earlier, under the USSR, connoisseurs of automotive history could nevertheless notice them, for example, in the capitals of the Union republics.
The exact purpose of this "mysterious" machine has not been established for certain - in parallel there are several options: one of the versions, for example, says that these the fastest trucks were used to escort the so-called "member vehicles" - cars in which high-ranking persons of the Soviet nomenclature.
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Another widespread opinion, which seems to many to be much more plausible, looking at the design features of the machine itself, speaks of the fact that it was simply a kind of "mobile gas station" for government limousines, which were tested in conditions cities. The thing is that in the same Moscow at the beginning of the seventies there were very few private cars, so stationary gas stations outside the center of the capital were quite rare. Therefore, these ZILs drove next to the convoy of test limousines: other trucks were not able to catch up with government cars.
In addition to the topic: cargo ZILs went down in history not only for their quality, but also for the funny nicknames that people christened them - "Eh, Zakhar Ivanovich": what nicknames did Soviet drivers come up with for ZIL trucks
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/160321/58201/
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