Featured Hot Rods 1934 Gaz ( russian Ford)

French blocks use imperial thread with metric head bolts but close enough to use standard wrenches, US pumps are a bolt on deal.
Some parts are 8BA some are 59A.

 

Wikipedia's entry is fairly accurate, these were a mishmash of Ford and later Chrysler (engine wise) bits plus local ideas. They wanted to use the V8 but Ford only sent drawings, not the tooling so the first gen used their version of the Model B banger, and eventually the Mopar flathead 6 was utilized. How on earth did it get to the Netherlands - was it a Soviet embassy car or one caught by the Wehrmacht on the east front and somehow transferred to the west?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ-M1
I know you want a coupe but maybe a replica of the factory record breaker would make more sense...

 

looks like a 38 chevy hood ornament on that thing

 

I do hope your keeping that grill.

 

Can't wait for the build thread. Russian 33/34. Learn something new every day, comrade.

 

i will

 

Yesterday i had the change to take some measurements on a 33 ford 5w .
Everything matches the Gaz.
Only the hood is 7 cm ( 2.75 “) longer because of the straight 6 Gaz used

 

I was always curious about your Hamb name, - thought it was possibly your nickname and you had a ‘34.
(I was half right).
I have learned something about ‘34 fords today that I had no idea about.