An advertisement for the sale of a rare version of the GAZ-21 "Volga" with an automatic transmission has appeared on the Auto.ru website: about 700 of these cars were produced.
Formally, the GAZ-21 modification with an "automatic" was considered serial, but the actual circulation turned out to be extremely limited. The automatic transmission was developed in the USSR on the basis of the Ford gearbox. The design had a non-standard operating scheme: starting from a place and acceleration occur in second gear, the first one is turned on forcibly and used as a downshift, and the third gear is used when driving at high speeds.
The interior uses the original fabric from those years, the trunk has a complete set of factory tools strictly according to the specifications of the 1950s, and the technical part includes a restored original automatic transmission — a metric copy of Ford-O-Matic. The control is preserved according to the authentic factory algorithm with a lever on the steering column and starting from the second gear, which allows you to feel the car exactly as its creators intended.
The car put up for sale was produced in 1957 and is located in Yekaterinburg. According to the description in the advertisement, the car has undergone a complete restoration and has not been used after the completion of the work. They are asking for 6,990,000 rubles for a rare copy.
