Igor Pavlovich, a collector from Yekaterinburg, has restored the famous Soviet ZIL-41045 limousine. This car was intended for the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Yuri Andropov.
Now the unique car is put up for sale for 30 million rubles. The 41045 model is one of the rarest in the ZIL line.
ZIL executive cars were never produced on the assembly line; they were made manually. One group of workers made the body, another made the chassis, and then the components were connected.
The production of one car took 6–7 months, and the ZIL for Andropov was assembled for almost a year and a half. The General Secretary did not have time to use the car; he died on February 9, 1984, when the car had already been built. In total, there are four such ZILs, one of the cars is located in Yekaterinburg.
The car is clean; everything is original; you can verify this by examining the body numbers on the bumper, under the hood, and throughout the car. The 45th model is the rarest because it was produced at the turn of the eras, in the last decade of the Soviet Union.
Now the collector goes out in a rare limousine only twice a year.
Earlier it became known that the cost of preparing a car for winter in Russia has increased by 16%.