For anyone who is interested what exactly those bottles in the first aid kit First bottle is iodine solution, used for cuts/burns disinfection Second bottle is valerian tincture has a very calming effect, useful when driver/passenger is in shock Third bottle is boric acid solution, antiseptic useful in eye injuries Forth bottle is iodine solution again. There is never too much iodine solution Pills that Doug handles is charcoal I also see validol (hearth problem), valerian, analgin (US analog is tylenol) and besalol (no idea what it is, instruction says it is for stomach pain) in the instruction list on top on the aid kit I am not a doctor
так. Русские тут? Заспорим Дага. Пусть приезжает, мы его удивим дизастером) Doug listen. I wrote you 3 e-mail's already? trying to welcome you in modern Russia. If you want to know, and may be others too, fu** politics. We need to union, sooo.. 1. 2410 is because there was also 21, and previous. check the wiki, bro. 2. There are still running in our cities. 3. Sorry for my English, i've studied it just 4,5 months in 2005 in Virgina Beach. 4. It's outdated. No question. ridiculous. But legendary in post USSR territory. So please be polite. There is a LOT people watching you, we are friendly, so friends need to be polite) That's why - come to Russia. Get your wife and children. There's a lot to see in Nature sightseeing, one of the most crazy cars in whole world, affable people) 5. Rose - one of the most popular attribute of cars in lately Soviet. It's the Meme right now. 6. And finally man! First aid kit. You Americans su**)) Out First aid kit - is powerful. It's like wizard you know) - first bottle - iodine solution for disinfecting wounds. - another bottle - actually - peels. this thing you ruined man) it's simple, but also good absorber stomaср poisoning - carbo activatus. 7. There's Kremlin Towers in logo up to deer. And deers are beautiful, by the way, I try to say, if you know what I mean)) 8. There was some crazy KGB modifications of this vehicle. So 200 kmh - was right, actually) 9. If you don't want to go through Europe to Moscow - go to Vladivostok. It's more European and Asian than most cities in Russia. 10. I live in Tatarstan, Kazan. It's the 3-d city of Russia. The sports, restourants and tourism "capital" of Russia. Welcome!
Some interesting facts about "Volgas" that Doug could include in his video: 1.Back then, you could meet them everywhere on the streets of Soviet Russia - taxi, highway patrol, the wagon versions would go as the ambulance vehicles and also work as a taxi or as the service vehicles at the airports, the top trim black ones would belong only to the special services (KGB), high ranking military, and communist party officials. But if you would have one in the family, like if you could afford one or even have your own private driver with it that was, of course, a real luxury back then. 2. About your question, GAZ is the name of the automaker, "Volga" is the name of the model, "24" is generation, the "10" in "24/10" points that it is a restyling. 3.A very interesting fact - GAZ would make a special version of every gen of "Volga" exclusively for KGB with a full size V8 under the hood. Yes, in Soviet Union we had V8 powered limos, made also by GAZ for the top government officials, so they would use those V8s for a small production of under 20 or so "Volga"'s (600 were made in total) for KGB in every Volga's generation. They also had 3-speed automatic transmission and yes - the power steering (and I think a full size climate control). Those are super rare to find even in Russia nowadays, there are just a few of them left in good condition, sitting tight either in museums or private collections. 4. Another interesting fact - the version for the taxi fleet would have a deforced petrol engine or could run on natural gas. There were also so called "export" versions with a diesel under the hood - they were sold in Europe under the brand "Scaldia-Volga" and equipped with Peugeot diesel engines. Please, bring this comment on top, I wanna make sure Doug reads this!)
There were also export versions for Finland called Konela with standard 2.45 , Peugeot 2.1 diesel or a Ford 3.0 V6 (Capri, Granada engine). Also later the 3102 (31013 ?) generation had the 3.9 V8 from a Rover - that was when Gaz 13 V8s ended or something - that is rare. I will try to replicate this in my 73 Volga as it begs for a V8 :) Also this car is absolutely fenomenal on bumps, potholes, mud, snow etc. - where western cars from the late 80s suck a... (The Volga 24 really started in 1968) and my has also a crank start handle :D
@@wyrazowfkp I didn't know that they used Ford V6 in Volga's, wow! Also I didnt know that the V8s in later Volgas such as 3102 and 31013 were Rover V8s, very interesting. Yes, I agree about its smoothness on bumps, I think there was even a nickname of a "sofa with wheels" for Volga.
The liquids in the medicine cabinet are: Iodine (for external treatment of the skin, nasopharyngeal mucosa), valerian tincture (sedative), boric ointment (antibacterial, antifungal and antiparasitic agent). Tablets are: "Activated charcoal", to restore the internal discomfort of the gastrointestinal tract. Well, a cup is needed for diluting iodine with water.
@@arnet922 1. The quality of Soviet tinctures is sketchy, at best. 2. Most of that is out of date and probably no longer effective, assuming it ever was. 3. No one would ever need such things, 99.9% of the time. Most regular first-aid kits NEVER get used. That is why. In the Western world, we'll have an ambulance on the scene before you finishing diluding your iodine. I understand it's not as easy in other parts of the world.
Hello Doug, im from Ukraine and I am a proud owner of Gaz 24 1973 year. Im here to explain you about first aid kit. Those tablets called “Activated Coal” and they are for taking them in case you have stomach problems or diarrhea. One of the bottles is famous “Zelenka” (translates something like Greeny) its an antibacterial agent to treat wounds. Other bottles is “iodine” and other our national medical stuff that I have not been able to consider and I do not know what else is there included in the first aid kit those years. Guys like the comment so doug can read!
@Cristiano Lopes I also laughed when I watched the review, I must admit that Soviet cars were really bad compared to American or European at that time. But Dоug reviewed the transitional model 2410 and all next models of Volga were also bad (search 2410, 3102, 31029, 3110, 31105 the last two were with new engine with injector not with carburettor and on the last one was model with Chrysler engine. Fuck that, they still made engines with carburettor till 2004....)(Russia technical progress sucks). 24 came out in 70 and was a very great car in those years. And the Soviet person could not buy it for himself, they were not sold, they were bought by enterprises for taxis, medical institutions, and for employees of government services, and only after 10 years it became possible to buy them for ordinary people. 2410 was already for civilians initially and came out in times of shortage in the Soviet Union, so it turned out to be of rather poor quality
@@gavin9962 I live in a "mudern" west European capital. We dont have cholera so often but Legionella is considered normal in the water supply as are cockroach infestations in the most modern buildings. Iodine is used as an antiseptic. If you know anything about treatig a cut you would know that. I am no fan of the USSR but theres such a thing as overdoing it.
This is true!! In order for a vehicle to pass inspection in the former Soviet Union it was required to have a first aide kit along with a fire extinguisher. All cars had to have these. What's so funny about a car having a first aid kit?? It's very practical.
Seriously speaking, the first aid kit is different just because it has a completely different purpose in mind. Looking at a modern first aid kit in a car, your first assumption is that you have to use it in case of *a car accident.* And that explains everything what is usually inside: antiseptics, bandages, medicine to stop the blood/to prevent the bacterial infection of the injury. You are not expected to use it for any other first aid rather than the injury/trauma in a car accident. The first aid kit in a Soviet car was *a general purpose.* A first aid kit that you would get for a remote trip, ... but the trip is just by the car. It assumed that you may get to a less-inhabited place (like, a countryside) and have some medical problem/condition, and be the only person with a first air kit (and likely, have no any _other_ first aid kits). And thus this kit is intended to help with *most typical medical issues,* not necessarily car-related. The pills you were looking at and laughing at, are just the activated carbon/activated charcoal, an early sorbent (these days we have more effective ones, but act carb is still used rather often). It can be used in case... for example of a food poisoning. There are other pills, and some are for heart problems, some are cough/cold medicine. There is even a light sedative/tranq (valerian-based). There are some antacids. The bottles should have some antiseptics, likely a medical spirit and/or iodine or something similar - and in 80s in Russia, you don't have to be a doctor to use iodine on the wound instead of a “modern self-adhesive wound dressing”. So that's it. Your typical “western first aid kit” helps you better in case of a road accident. A “soviet first aid kit” helps you better when you are far from home and have no any other first aids nearby. Simple. You don't need a _different_ first aid kit, if you want to stay in a house in the woods, this one will work. Though you maybe have less comfort and less gadgets in case of a road accident. But helps you even if you are on the road and got an unbearable heartburn after a bad meal.
I think one of the reasons he found the first aid kit so hilarious was the fact that the back seats had no seatbelts and safety was obviously so far behind western cars at the time
A few clarifications: 8:00 - Blue climate slider controls non-heated vents 8:00 - Red slider controls the temperature of heated vents 8:17 - The second red slider controls airflow direction: blue for windshield red for passengers 8:17 - The fourths slider(not mentioned in the video) controls the amount of air passing through a radiator. To make it clear, you need all of these controls because it can be -58F outside in winter and 120F in summer. 9:39 - Blank switches were used by government, police, ambulance cars. 13:34 - This bottle contains iodine to prevent infections. It's commonly used by surgeons nowadays. 13:39 - This is sedative. It may be useful for passengers with heart diseases after a car accident. And yes, you mix it with water and drink, because this way it works almost instantly. 13:43 - This bottle contains an acid that was used to stop blood flow from heavy open injuries. 13:49 - Iodine again. 14:05 - black pills are used to help with food poisoning.
My uncle had a Volga like that. It was in central Ukraine. In the early ’90s, when I was a kid, I enjoyed riding with him, whether to his workplace or for errands. Watching this video now fills me with nostalgia. Once uncle was drunk and proposed me to go somewhere, but my mother said “no a way”. He went alone and ended up in a crash. He was thrown from the car, and the car spun several times. Miraculously, he survived with only minor injuries. He later repaired the car and used it until his death in 2006 from stomach cancer
@@J09-555 Thanks! I don't know. Perhaps, his wife sold it. My father died in 2020, and he had Moskvich, another famous soviet car. Me and my sister this year sold it to collectioner for $250. And yesterday in the street of Kyiv I have seen the Volga, but not like this, but with bigger cabin at the back. So, this cars are still used in Ukraine.
@@J09-555 These old cars need a lot of attention. In Ukraine still exist some amount of people, usually rather old, called Volga-guy, or Moskvich-guy, or Zhiguli-guy. They devote a considerable amount of time to repairing these old Soviet cars in their garages. My father was a Moskvich-guy, and my uncle was a Volga-guy. If nobody is willing to invest the time and effort into maintaining the car and spending countless hours in the garage, it might be better to sell it. And as I was small, I've also spent a lot of time with father repairing Moskvich) It was some kind of father-son buddy time. He died in 2020, but month before death he still repaired his car and wanted to use it again, but it never happened.
Some notes from an owner of GAZ-24 in 2021: 1. Gaz 24-10 was outdated even by soviet standarts, and everyone understood that, so it's not really the laughing matter. In 1988 USSR was near his death. This model wasn't luxury anymore. At all. There were much more cheap plastic details, the interior and exterior were spoiled (less chrome elements, ugly door handles, wheel caps, and other). The thickness of body panels was reduced, same as it's anticorrosive properties. 24-10 got corroded much more fast than 24. Original Gaz-24 from 1969-1970 was incomparably superior. And I'm sad that the reviewer didn't chose original model. 2. The gauge panel was also much better on Gaz-24. All gauges had their own units. Current: Amperes [30 A Charge/Discharge], Water temperature: *C [40, 80, 120], Fuel level: [0, 0,5, Full], Oil pressure: kg/cm^2 [0, 2, 4, 6]. And the design of entire panel was cool. In my opinion the precise units of gauges much more informative that the modern "pictograms" in modern cars. And 24-10 unfortuneally had them too. 3. Gaz-24 had the vacuum hydraulic brake booster, which was really cool and modern thing in 1970-th. It also had full-flow oil filter, oil radiator, aluminum cylinder block and aluminum blockhead, which also was a really impressive things in terms of weight and heat transfer. Car had the hydraulic drive of the clutch, which was interesting thing in my opinion. The brake system includes a primitive but workable semi-automatic brake separator, which cuts off the brake circuit of the front or rear wheels in case of damaged pipes or fluid leaks. The car is able to stop using the remaining functional circuit. 4. Backseat passengers actually DO HAVE seatbelts, but you had to buy and install them manually. There were a threaded holes under the seat, and in the rear roof pillars on the left and right sides, under the decorative vinyl. I don't really know why the manufacturer chose to not install them, but the places for them are there. 5. The 2.45 l i-4 engine provided a max speed of the car about 160 km/h. Again, I don't know about the opinion of the reviewer, but in my opinion this is more than enough for the car with such non-streamlined form. Further increase in speed is simply unsafe - the front wheels begin to rise above the road. If you open a window at a speed of about 100-120 km/h, you will hear a loud crisp rustle of air, ripped by the angular front of the car. 0-100 is about 20-22 seconds by offical passport of car. (My personal record is 19 seconds and I didn't even push engine to the limits. I want to try to install carburetor from Gaz-53 truck with v8 engine ;D). 6. These old engines (called ZMZ by the way, Volga had ZMZ-24D engine) had one specific and somewhat unique advantage. Due to their low ratio of power/volume they can use unimaginably (any) bad oil, bad petrol, they can survive most poor service you can imagine and still run. They also have low rotational speed (4000-4500 rpm is highest, and you can damage the engine) which also provides survavability and long-life, and high torque (near the 2000 rpm), almost like tractors. ZMZ-2401 engine (used in taxi cars) had a lower compression ratio and could run on petrol, roughly equivalent in quality to kerosene or even diesel fuel. In general, this is a kind of exchange of specific power per 1 liter for durability. The manufacturer declared the engines mileage of 250,000 km without major repairs. This was true. There are known cases of mileage up to 370,000 km. Gaz-24 is the only car that could withstand the harsh barbaric operation as a taxi car. Neither Zhiguli (LADA) nor Moskvich (AZLK) could do this. The owners of the Volga have a local joke that the human driver's resource ends earlier, than the resource of this car. 7. Almost everything positive about this car has to do with simplicity, durability and survivability. For example the front suspension. It is assembled from four thick, incredibly strong forged arms. The wheels turn on king pins as thick as a man's thumb. The suspension is so strong that it can survive the impact of a wheel on an open hatch at high speed without any consequences. You can fix entire car at home, all you need is a box of wrenches. Even if you are unlucky enough to stop on a long road away from civilization, you can still make it drive to the nearest town or village. No jokes, 24 WILL take you home being almost completely broken - and die only on the doorstep of your garage, when she completely makes sure you are safe. Again, no jokes, this car has some soul inside, like kind twin of famous Christine. She will love you if you agree to truly love her. 8. If you look at all the Gaz-24 concepts together with the final version, you will see how beautiful the Gaz-24 is and how it stands out among them. There is no strained desire in it to resemble someone, "to be no worse than ...", its design is original and very beautiful. Unlike other Soviet cars, the Gaz-24 does not have an obvious foreign prototype. It just doesn't exist. In the first and in the last time USSR were able to create their own unique car design and style. Even now, after almost half a century, this car is not ashamed to be rolled out onto the road, it is not ashamed to put it next to a foreign one. There is no longer a country of origin manufacturer, no model, no brand, in fact, there is no longer even a factory where Gaz-24 was assembled. But Volga number 24 is still here. And it will be, forever.
Thank you for this thoughtful response. While the GAZ-24 was undoubtedly not a great car, when compared to a contemporary Mercedes, it is important to look at the design criteria for the particular vehicle and how they influence the design. Simply applying North America and free market as the yardstick to measure by, makes this Doug video less than interesting and watching him laugh for half the video over some iodine bottles in a first aid kit is frankly stupid. While I am not offended in the least (I have no affinity towards ex-USSR vehicles) as a car enthusiast I find this kind of video to be a low point in an otherwise interesting series from Doug.
That's a nice love letter, but the car is still awful and bad. It's sturdy, yes, because it's fitting to the drab life in communist era where centrally planned economy caused resources to be hard to come by. Everyone with a car had better understand its mechanics because they broke down a lot and car mechanics, if they weren't your friends, just robbed you blind. Let's not paint the history in nicer colours just because we were young then.
Hi Doug, I can narrate you what all these ridiculous things mean. For instance the medicine box. The black pills are nothing else than so called "activated carbon". It is some kind of remedy against been poisoned through eating some junk food. The 1s small bottle you held in your hand was the iodine medicine against injuries. And so on and so forth. All these silly things are extremely useful in case you had a crash somewhere in no man land and have no possibility to call for help. Help yourself with what you find in the small emergency box. Regards, George
@Павел Васильев It is either activated carbon or activated charcoal. You know, the world does not revolve around Russia and it's language. It is not our problem that in Russian you are lacking correct nouns...
@Павел Васильев What I meant was that in Russian you don't have separate nouns for coal and charcoal. They both are уголь in your language. In English, "Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements; chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen." and "Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.". Hope you will understand now.
Here is a tip. All big car manufacturers in USSR used to have a unique range of numbers for their models. 1-99 was reserved for GAZ, 100-199 for ZIL, 450-499 for AZLK, etc. That is why you have GAZ 24-10 and AZLK 412 (Moskvitch). After 1966 the index convension was changed to the following: -1st digit - vehicle class. 1-engine up to 1.1L; 2-1,1L-1.8L; 3-1.8L-3.5L; 4->3.5L engine, etc -2nd digit - vehicle type. 1-car, 2-bus, 3-truck, 4-tractor, 5-dump truck, etc -3rd digit and further - model index assigned by the manufacturer. That's why you have GAZ 3102, VAZ 2101, KamAZ 4310, MAZ 5549, etc.
the black pills are Activated carbon to fight poisonings or alcohol overdoses. The brown liquid is iodine, there must have been also a green liquid which is Brilliant green (zelyonka, zelenka) - traditional in Russia for the case of wounds. The car has classic design and some features that were truly considered luxury. It used to be incredibly cool to own it.
@@m0nta6ix Oh... and the heater... hi should try it in the russian winter... instead of california. probably hi wouldn't laugh so loudly. :) Different world, different demands.
When I was a kid in the 90s in Cuba, I only knew soviet cars, and old American cars from the 40s and 50s, modern cars were reserved for tourists who bring dollars into the country. For me, this Volga was a spectacular luxury car
This car was used in emergency services and police a lot, so blank switches are for emergency light and other accessories. It also had v8 version for secret service that could go to 180-190 kmh.
The pills are activated charcoal, and it's one of the most useful things to have in a first-aid kit. I remember soviet-era first aid kits, and frankly, they were way more useful than modern ones. The thing is, they were mostly designed to aid you in case of common ailments (you know, to help the driver feel better to continue the journey), not life-or-death situations. Modern first-aid kits are mostly useless for both cases.
That's what I thought charcoal tablets are cheap and can cure car sickness or a multitude of issues from poisoning, drug overdose, dysentery or stomach bugs from bad water. I keep iodine in my car but charcoal tablets is very smart.
In the U.S. in the 1980ies over the counter medications were available at some gas stations, drug stores or grocery stores that can treat common ailments. You can also buy a first aid kit or put together or medicines you think you might need for a long trip. We just wouldn't expect the car to come with it. In the 1980ies you would drive to a medical facility or place with a public phone(gas stations tended to have them) for any major emergency. For drug overdose no one would expect it while driving. For dysentery you really do need to see a doctor and possibly get to an emergency room. For some lighter stomach bugs maybe something like Pepto-Bismol for things like heartburn, diarrhea, nausea and constipation as it is kind of an generalist medication but drug stores or most grocery stores would have a choice of products that are better that it for the individual things it covers. i.e. Imodium for diarrhea. For car sickness Dramamine. You would only carry a First Aid kit if for some reason you wanted to such as on a camping trip or far away from help. Also in the 1980ies we had towelettes for alcohol and iodine rather than keep a glass liquid bottle.
The first aid kit is actually not a special car-oriented one but a rather multi-purpose one. I believe its idea was not to aid you in an accident scenario but rather to help in long trips. It contains stomach pills in case food on the road side was bad (they didn't have roadside cafes with quality standards back then), liquids for heart in case you overheat in southern parts of the country at +40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) with no A/C and antiseptics for treating small injuries. Actually quite a nice set of stuff for long journeys with no pharmacy stores on the way
Thats right, dude. This first aid kit can help more than modern ones in which with only a few bandages, tourniquets and plasters. Most likely he laughed at his ignorance.
These guys beat you to space.. it’s not that they didn’t have the technology to make more modern cars but their priorities were different ! These machines were designed to be durable and last long which they did!
Not at all ahead in space. They have never been able to fly to the moon, their shuttle flew 1 time, they do not have a rover on Mars, reusable rockets are not theirs either.
This car wasn’t bad at all, it’s like he wants it to be bad no matter what. The pills seem to be against motion sickness and maybe some disinfectant for wounds. This guy is a good actor but bad reviewer, he made 0 research about his topic.
@Tess Stickels Outdated doesn't make it bad, this is the main issue here. His way of explaining that was pretty bad, which pissed off a lot of Russians, but that's a guess.
If Doug thinks this car being built in 1988 is ridiculous, imagine what he would say when he sees the UAZ-452 and the Lada Niva, both of which were designed in the 60-70's and both are built as new cars TODAY with little to no difference to their original design.
i mean if Mercedes could also make G-Wagens with the same platform since the 70s why not them? It's not about communism it's about if it ain't broke don't fix it
@@kuro9410_ilust the G wagen was updated over the years. Then they stopped to preserve the iconic design and only updated the platform and technology. This design was never iconic to the world and always looked like a generic 60-70s car.
With Doug laughing so bad at the Soviet first aid kit with basic stuff to treat small wounds and food poisoning out in the wild, I wonder what American first aid kits include.
Now, hear me out... - Black matte paint job - Black leather interior - Black wire wheel covers - Nice audio system - Dark windows I'm gonna call her... "Baba Yaga!"
This car had a fast version , was called "доганялка"(like interceptor) or "волга КГБ", this version was build for agents of KGB(soviet FBI). Volga KGB have a V8 5.5 liters, from GAZ 13, even older luxury soviet car. p.s. sorry for english, im from Ukraine
Also important to note that the public transport network in the USSR was actually very advanced so many Soviet citizens just did not need cars. You could take a bus or a train to basically anywhere in the country at regular intervals.
I remember as a kid in the late ‘80s Romania whenever you saw one of these you just knew someone important was in town. If it was black we were scared shitless
Unchiul meu fusese securist si avea o volga neagra, v8 ul, toata lumea era speriat de el. My uncle was a soviet spy, he hsd a black volga with a v8, everyone was scared of him.
I am from Czech republic and my dad told me that when one parked infront of his school and the men inside were looking for him because he wanted to be an army pilot, he too, was scared shitless. And they drove him to some tests where they asked him to draw a tree, he drew a palm and basically told them to fuck off
Doug: This car is hilariously bad My grandad: The day he exited the factory in Kiev, multiple people were waiting outside to offer to buy it. One person even offered 3 times the original price. But my grandad said no and kept it for himself :D Yes... this was a dream car for any man back in soviet Russia
@@Markle2k Usually it took many years... But because my grandad was a physician he managed to somehow not go through the whole waiting process. So it was about a year that he waited
About the heater controls: - top left knob opens up a SEPARATE airway that sort of replaces air that would have gone from opening quarter windows, so it does not control temperature, it opens cold air only through a pair of central deflectors. this is crazy, but that's what it is:D - bottom left knob redirects air from the heater either on the windshield or on your feet - top right knob is a heater tap control - you can block it in summer so the heat can't come in (and yes, Russia DOES have hot terrible summers). 80% of Volgas in 2021 do not have the tap at all, as it seizes open or starts to leak. - Bottom right knob controls an airflow flap within the heater. It allows to close off hot air passage from the heater core and only leave cold air intake for summer. Which kind of adds to the heater tap knob. It's built really hilarious, as cold air can always pass by the heater core, which reduces efficiency like A LOT and people who drive it in winter (like me), shut this with cloth. I'm glad Doug didn't go underneath, where he would find a 4-wheel drum brake and front suspension with PIVOTS instead of ball joints (this system was installed on later models of Volga until redesign in 2003!)
I think the right way to look at the Volga is to imagine what Model A Ford would like in the 1980s, because this car much like the USSR itself - was a mind product of 1930s, they built it with 1930s ideas and values. This car is extremely, like war machine tough, super easy to work with and very hard to kill even if you try. I drive and restore these things for 13 years - I love them, and I'm glad to see people being interested in them. Volga has earned its place in time, where it will ever be) Thanks for the video Doug!
@@7296rsks When you wrote about the Ford Model A . . . It always impresses me the knowledge and familiarity that people in overseas countries have about the US and its history; but the typical American don't have the same level of familiarities for those overseas countries. When you wrote about your familiarity with this car, another aspect to consider is _simplicity._ A quote I appreciate from Russian designer Georgy Shpagin: “Complexity is easy, simplicity is difficult.”
@@bloqk16 thank you for your response. I really like American cars, American history and culture, the same way I like that of Russia. GAZ plant was built by Henry Ford in 1932, the Soviets bought the factory and a license to build a 4-door open top Model A and an AA 1,5-tonne truck. Volga and Ford Crown Vic have a common ancestor:)
Outside ventilation control is nothing particularly crazy. This was a feature on the Chevy Astro right up until 1993 or so, I had it on my 88 back in the day. BTW, the English word for шкворень is kingpin.
I don't get why he laughed at the kit. I'm sure the contents of the kit made sense for anyone who knew first aid standards of the 1980s. Maybe it's because I was a combat medic for 12 years, but I'm aware of how much medicine can change in that short of a timespan, let alone 30+ years ago.
@Yule Calma Comrade, only 33,000 capitalist pigs die each year on their roads, despite driving American automobile trash, and not all of them were drivers. Losing 8 million puny republic lives would equal losing one of their largest cities each year. But boom, that is actually history of China.
@@julosx It was the most luxurious car you can buy. It was reserved only for high ranking party members or other privileged people. Those were weird times.
Yeah i mean i always skip the modern high end cars and watch modern low/mid-tier cars and all old cars. I've seen enough of modern sports to be sick and tired of them 😂
16:56 GAZ is the official name, Volga was the car's nickname. Volga was later adopted as an official name if I remember correctly, but the actual name of the automaker was just GAZ. Volga also was only related to the 21 and 24 models, not to all GAZ cars, as they also made trucks and other cars. Car brands in the USSR weren't united in any groups, like you had your GM in the states. All of them were independent, expect for the political parties, obviously.
@@busystudying6711 idk but if you have a problem with your 240 and these guys will tell you how to fix it from cleaning that dreaded flame trap down to those printed tail light circuit boards. At least that’s how it was when I still had my 240 in 2013.
When I was a kid, my grandfather've had Niva with a broken tachometer, so I asked him, how does he know when it`s time to shift the gear. So he said "why do I need a tachometer, if have ears."
The heat slider is larger than the other one because it's cold in Russia. You need more heat, so it's longer. Would you deny those loyal comrades that last bit of heat by shortening the slider? Not very comradely of you.
19:09 that's not the battery gauge, it's rather an alternator current gauge. If it goes into negative area, it means the battery is discharging. If it stands in the middle, it means the battery is fully charged. And, if it goes into positive (+) area, it means the alternator is charging the battery
To be honest, the interior doesn't look that different from the cars in my childhood in the 80s in capitalist the Netherlands. The Renault 4, Citroën 2CV and original Mini were still being sold up until the 90s. And in my memory the interiors of cars like Seat Ibiza and Renault 11 my parents had, were pretty similar (of course, those were more on the budget end, while the Volga is supposed to be a luxury car). I am absolutely sure about that speedometer that goes to 200 km/h, because in my memory ALL cars had that one and as a child I was certain this meant that the cars could go that fast. I also checked Wikipedia and backseat seatbelts became compulsory in the Netherlands in 1990. The design of the Volga is dated though, but to be fair, the Soviets also made the Lada Samara in those days, which was a decent looking for that period.
Actually there were two different Volgas in production. This one is a "compromise" model intended only to reuse older body stamps. Another one was GAZ-31, which looked slightly better and had around 20hp more. Speedometer was intended to be used also on a "tuned up" version 24-34 - with 5.5l v8 and semiautomatic gearbox - that's were 200km/h comes from. Only for KGB, yeah.
@@gg_vard Doug is very ignorant when it comes to European cars, the fact he bashes so hard on a Volga which isn't so different from European cars of the time proves that.
Yes, my first car was a Ford Fiesta from '89, and that was even slower, had only 4 gears, no rev counter, and luxury features included a 2-speaker FM radio and a glovebox lid. However, that was luxury compared to a Fiat Panda available at the time.
Traveled from Volgograd to a Russian gas production facility six hours many times (cant-recall the time). For an old Russian car amazingly comfortable. Two westerners, interpreter & driver plus luggage. Well safe even compared to newer Russian car variants as a car did collide with us. Cosmetic damage to the car but it took us back to Volgograd.
As a Russian I can say, that it's not the best car in a soviet auto history, but what's the problem with well-equipped aid kit? It shouldn't keep you alive?
It's usually never any auto makers providing cars with over-the-counter medicine included, that's the aspect that Doug finds funny. If a car has over-the-counter medicine placed the owner, I'm sure Doug wouldn't laugh for 10 minutes for obvious reasons.
@@V1CT0Rc001 And it wasn't equipped with it. The previous owner must've bought the first aid kit himself otherwise he couldn't have registered the car.
While Doug makes jokes about the Volga, I‘ve seen them start at -40degrees centigrade, it could be fixed on the curb with basic tools, it ran with rather substandard Kasakh fuel if needed... imho a great car for what they were intended to do, and solid as a rock.
Sorry, but you are wrong. It's not solid as a rock, it's only looking as that. Each copy was eaten by rust faster than it was driving. It have a terrible brakes, suspension and handling makes thrills in corners. Engine was a crap, if owner had a chance to get a western engine, even in not too good condition, he made swap as soon as possible.
Damn right this guy is a moron fishing for subs and likes and running content based on personal thoughts and not facts, there are very few cars that will start when it's 40 below outside.
I live in Azerbaijan and I am from the UK and I have a fascination for Soviet cars. You still see Ladas and Volgas , but they are fast disappearing. Every time I see one I stop And talk to the driver. I myself am an owner of a Zaz 968M
Pills are charcoal for food poisoning and liquids are probably: iodine for (painful) superficial desinfecion, some bitter drops, again for stomach problems and some smelling salts as a stimulant. Everyone has this stuff at home in the Eastern Europe :D
@@Ang3lUkiit's not a special first aid kit, just a standard Soviet kit for cars. All those bottles inside contain drugs to aid with heart attack, cuts and to help people who have lost consciousness. It was a standard for Soviet first aid kit so every car from smallest ZAZ to trucks should have the same. It was purposed to use not only in car crash but to help person who needs it even if he/she just a random person who got hurt nearby.
так. Русские тут? Заспорим Дага. Пусть приезжает, мы его удивим дизастером) Doug listen. I wrote you 3 e-mail's already? trying to welcome you in modern Russia. If you want to know, and may be others too, fu** politics. We need to union, sooo.. 1. 2410 is because there was also 21, and previous. check the wiki, bro. 2. There are still running in our cities. 3. Sorry for my English, i've studied it just 4,5 months in 2005 in Virgina Beach. 4. It's outdated. No question. ridiculous. But legendary in post USSR territory. So please be polite. There is a LOT people watching you, we are friendly, so friends need to be polite) That's why - come to Russia. Get your wife and children. There's a lot to see in Nature sightseeing, one of the most crazy cars in whole world, affable people) 5. Rose - one of the most popular attribute of cars in lately Soviet. It's the Meme right now. 6. And finally man! First aid kit. You Americans su**)) Out First aid kit - is powerful. It's like wizard you know) - first bottle - iodine solution for disinfecting wounds. - another bottle - actually - peels. this thing you ruined man) it's simple, but also good absorber stomaср poisoning - carbo activatus. 7. There's Kremlin Towers in logo up to deer. And deers are beautiful, by the way, I try to say, if you know what I mean)) 8. There was some crazy KGB modifications of this vehicle. So 200 kmh - was right, actually) 9. If you don't want to go through Europe to Moscow - go to Vladivostok. It's more European and Asian than most cities in Russia. 10. I live in Tatarstan, Kazan. It's the 3-d city of Russia. The sports, restourants and tourism "capital" of Russia. Welcome!
@@joshw2929 Shame how "important" people admire China these days on how they keep people in line. With the covid nonsense. Msm keep people in fear and feel bad about themselves. Anyway. Doug had me with those pills. Haha, I couldn't stop either.
Volga was a status symbol for a soviet worker. My grandfather had one because he was one of those important people. That thing was built like a tank and drove like a dream. At least that's how I felt 20 years ago.
My uncle had that same Volga and we did a lot of family travels with it. I tell you what, it drinks fuel like crazy, but it was the most reliable car that any member of my family ever owned. Absolutely trouble-free for many years. And it was insanely spacious! The back seat would fit (four) people easily! That's two whole Americans! And the trunk would fit 6 people's luggage, even for a long vacation! Sure, it was noisy inside, but the ride was comfy, the seats were very soft and spongy and there was plenty of space to put your stuff eg. water bottles, coffee cups etc.
My dad and his friend had several of them as taxis, my uncles lasted for 30 years, finally rust killed it, but in the seventies even a Mercedes or a Rolls would rust.
Funnily enough, the police in metropolitan areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg, along with KGB, would have special GAZ cars fitted with the 5.5L V8 which pumped out anywhere between 180-300hp (Depending on who sources the information) but irregardless, civilians weren't allowed to own this model. In Soviet Russia, only polices have fast cars
My mom always told me, that when she was teenager, and someone drove around in Volga, all the kids were just silent and looking. It was really symbol of luxury and respect those days here in former soviet union area. One in 100000 was so lucky to have that car, because of its price and political restrictions.
@@zaxarispetixos8728 yeah in case you get sudden diarrhea in long trip (Russia's big you know). There was also bottle of iodine, bottle of valerian tincture and boric acid in that first aid kit
Fun fact: the soviet secret police got a version of this with an approx. 5 liter V8 Edit: @SwapBlogRU corrected me in a reply saying "I think it was a 5.6 truck engine with, like, 180-200 horsepower". I knew it was something like that, just couldn't remember whether it was 4.6 or 5.6, so I wrote approx. 5.
16:15 That light explains the strap. The strap is a copper braid, and its meant to ground the hood. My 85 F150 has traps just like that going from the back of the engine to the body since the entire electrical system grounds through a cable running to the front of the engine from the battery - post. Why GAZ went to the trouble of fitting a 150+ amp capable ground to run a 10 watt light bulb is beyond me, though.
I know, right? I mean, the bottles, i assume are probably disinfectants (i can't read cirillic so i can't be sure) and the pills that cracked him up so hard are regular activated carbon, which might be uncommon in car's first aid kit today, but at least where i'm from they are common to first aid kits at home and even required by work safety regulations in first aid kits in factories
Admittedly, Doug has no clue what's in the bottles. I feel like knowing what is inside your first aid kit, and what you're using to treat an injury is important to a first aid kit's functionality.
Doug: "I can't believe this car was still being made in the 80's!" Mk1 Beetle in 2002: "Why hello there" There was also a diesel prototype of the Mk1 Beetle; 0-62mph in 60 seconds.
This really puzzles me. Growing up in the UK in the eighties, you didn't get aircon, or rear seat belts, or cup holders, sometimes boot liners. The car is not great, but many of the features Doug mocks were consistent with Europe.
There's a saying in Russia: a car is not a luxury, it is a means of travel. Judging what is essentially a classic 70s car on auxiliary luxury features like air con just sounds like he's looking for excuses to trash it. As for it being "slow"... It's a car, it's meant to drive somewhere. Not to compensate for a small dick. Most cars today have way too much power and speed, which a) doesn't get used to its full potential, b) increases fuel expenditure, and c) leads to higher speeds and more severe car crashes.
I must add that this is basically a luxury car by USSR standards. Not many had it, usually people could only get Zhiguli, Moskvich or Zaporozhets. And most did not have any car at all.
You need to look carefully what pills there are in aid kit. And raindeer is not symbol of power, its just symbol of city, where GAZ is located. GAZ is producer, Volga is model name, not brand, digits are for generation of this model with last digits stand for modification and trim. It was Volga 21xx before, and Volga 31xxxx after. And last one Volga has second name: Siber. It was Chrysler Sebring with m😅ds manufactured in Russia. I have supplied stainless pipes and flat steel to producer of exhaust systems here (well known USA company).
Yes. Travel sickness can affect lots of people. Well done, the Russians. Then again; they may be suicide pills in case the secret police are on your case...
Yeah, i dont understand his reaction. I initially presumed it was pain relief, either way, seems like a very sensible thing to have in the first aid kit of a car
The dull black pills look like Pyridostigmine Bromide, still today it's used as pretreatment in chemical warfare as a hedge against possible nerve agents.
Honestly, even for the slightest cut you might have, you really need something to clean it up. So, in fact, this aid kit is so helpful. Absolutely true indeed!
Well said, nor does dag seem to comprehend that it was built for unpaved roads, and there are examples of Volga Taxis with 1,000,000 km on them still running in underdeveloped nations like Pakistan & Russia Federation...
They look really cool though, no matter how outdated in 1988. Also, there was a V8-powered version for the KGB. So that's probably what the 200 km/h speedo accounted for.
@@rises889well... The bad thing is he's right. In the USSR it was supposed to be in the same class. You can't have Buick or something like that and the only option for you to get a luxury car was to buy a Volga. And it was a real quest to do: to buy it you need to wait a couple of years (3-7) then you'll have to pay 9000 rubles when an engineer can have a salary around 200-300 roubles per month. And that wasn't all tbh not everyone was allowed to buy it. The other way to buy it was that shady guys selling "used" cars they bought with their shady schemes but in this way it can cost you not 9000 rub but 12000 to 15000 roubles. So it kinda was like a Buick for Soviet people.
I highly doubt it was because of that. The KGB cars were secretly built under the highest secrecy and in factories paperwork didnt exist at all. Only rumours were going around that there are some v8-versions blasting around. It was confirmed only after soviet union collapsed and those cars started to surface and wider audience saw that these cars even exist.
the V8 was a 4.2L and 125 hp. the chassis has been artificially weighted to deal with the extra torque. i don't think the V8 can reach 200 Km/h. but i dont think it was a real necessity anyway... very bad guys in ussr probabely had lada at the best.
I don't really agree that these were incredibly dated in the 80s. I had a late 70s Toyota Crown that looked like the same era styling wise. Remember, the VW Beetle was in production almost unchanged for what was it, 60-70 years?
Apart from memes and jokes, these old cars contained actually more stories and memories. It was perhaps the result of several years of hard work of our Babushka.
Actually, the reindeer was never here to symbolise power. It was the logo of the city of Gorki (now called Nijni Novgorod) where these car were produced. Indeed, GAZ stands for "Gorkovski Avtomobilny Zavod ", which translates into "Automobile factory in Gorki".
@@pinkraven4402 Not really. The "reindeer" that Doug laughs at is a gazelle, or "GAZ"elle. Many Russians had (and many still have) a sense of humor. It was just generally dangerous to display one in the USSR, lest someone interpret what you said as a slur against the government. Kinda like you really have to watch what you say or seem to imply in modern America, lest someone take offense and justifiably and righteously blow you away or have you arrested on an unspecified charge.
They were outdated and slow, but you dont give Soviet cars enough credit. They weren't impressive by any means, but they would outlast anything built in the US by decades. Reliability came like a tank.
Doug is sadly ignorant at times. That and the first aid kit, there was nothing laugh about. In a huge country with not much infrastructure, you certainly need such a kit.
@@Dimme many times in this video I scoffed at him dismissing half of the things he pointed out with the car. If you had a think about why the engineers did what they did you'd understand, at least a little. Not a fan of this one.
@@SirNyanPanda It's probably just aspirin or similar. It's a nice thing to include in a first aid kit. Headaches are a thing. And iodine, in case you get cut.
*Lexus LS400* - $36,000 in 1990 = *$72,000* today *Volga* - 11,200 rub = $4,500 in 1990 = *$9,000* today (via gold prices) Doug is an ignorant hillbilly who also thinks a proper first aid kit is funny.
The “cloth strap” is a copper grounding strap. It keeps the ignition noise from the non-resistive spark plug wires from radiating out to the AM radio antenna.
GAZ had great logo cause there were main car and car parts manufacturer in WW2 times and been ownd by Ford engineers... So... Doug is laughung about himself past . ... Or... I think his ancesorts weren't american that times... lol
There were reacher versions of climate control in more luxury Volgas... in 80s Volgas been used in taxi more. There were LADA 2108 and AZLK2141 , also there were cheapest ZAZ Tavria
Alex, it's an outdated POS, and wasn't built to the standards of cars anywhere else on the planet the year it was made. The OP isn't reacting badly to it.
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For anyone who is interested what exactly those bottles in the first aid kit
First bottle is iodine solution, used for cuts/burns disinfection
Second bottle is valerian tincture has a very calming effect, useful when driver/passenger is in shock
Third bottle is boric acid solution, antiseptic useful in eye injuries
Forth bottle is iodine solution again. There is never too much iodine solution
Pills that Doug handles is charcoal
I also see validol (hearth problem), valerian, analgin (US analog is tylenol) and besalol (no idea what it is, instruction says it is for stomach pain) in the instruction list on top on the aid kit
I am not a doctor
Underrated
@@baberkhan1472 highly underrated
This is what I came to the comments for. Thank you!
... but I guess you are Russian =)
так. Русские тут? Заспорим Дага. Пусть приезжает, мы его удивим дизастером)
Doug listen.
I wrote you 3 e-mail's already? trying to welcome you in modern Russia. If you want to know, and may be others too, fu** politics.
We need to union, sooo..
1. 2410 is because there was also 21, and previous. check the wiki, bro.
2. There are still running in our cities.
3. Sorry for my English, i've studied it just 4,5 months in 2005 in Virgina Beach.
4. It's outdated. No question. ridiculous. But legendary in post USSR territory. So please be polite. There is a LOT people watching you, we are friendly, so friends need to be polite) That's why - come to Russia. Get your wife and children. There's a lot to see in Nature sightseeing, one of the most crazy cars in whole world, affable people)
5. Rose - one of the most popular attribute of cars in lately Soviet. It's the Meme right now.
6. And finally man! First aid kit. You Americans su**)) Out First aid kit - is powerful. It's like wizard you know)
- first bottle - iodine solution for disinfecting wounds.
- another bottle - actually
- peels. this thing you ruined man) it's simple, but also good absorber stomaср poisoning - carbo activatus.
7. There's Kremlin Towers in logo up to deer. And deers are beautiful, by the way, I try to say, if you know what I mean))
8. There was some crazy KGB modifications of this vehicle. So 200 kmh - was right, actually)
9. If you don't want to go through Europe to Moscow - go to Vladivostok. It's more European and Asian than most cities in Russia.
10. I live in Tatarstan, Kazan. It's the 3-d city of Russia. The sports, restourants and tourism "capital" of Russia. Welcome!
Some interesting facts about "Volgas" that Doug could include in his video:
1.Back then, you could meet them everywhere on the streets of Soviet Russia - taxi, highway patrol, the wagon versions would go as the ambulance vehicles and also work as a taxi or as the service vehicles at the airports, the top trim black ones would belong only to the special services (KGB), high ranking military, and communist party officials. But if you would have one in the family, like if you could afford one or even have your own private driver with it that was, of course, a real luxury back then.
2. About your question, GAZ is the name of the automaker, "Volga" is the name of the model, "24" is generation, the "10" in "24/10" points that it is a restyling.
3.A very interesting fact - GAZ would make a special version of every gen of "Volga" exclusively for KGB with a full size V8 under the hood. Yes, in Soviet Union we had V8 powered limos, made also by GAZ for the top government officials, so they would use those V8s for a small production of under 20 or so "Volga"'s (600 were made in total) for KGB in every Volga's generation. They also had 3-speed automatic transmission and yes - the power steering (and I think a full size climate control). Those are super rare to find even in Russia nowadays, there are just a few of them left in good condition, sitting tight either in museums or private collections.
4. Another interesting fact - the version for the taxi fleet would have a deforced petrol engine or could run on natural gas. There were also so called "export" versions with a diesel under the hood - they were sold in Europe under the brand "Scaldia-Volga" and equipped with Peugeot diesel engines.
Please, bring this comment on top, I wanna make sure Doug reads this!)
THanks for the info. I'm from eastern Europe and black Volgas here were exclusive for the security services as well.
There were also export versions for Finland called Konela with standard 2.45 , Peugeot 2.1 diesel or a Ford 3.0 V6 (Capri, Granada engine).
Also later the 3102 (31013 ?) generation had the 3.9 V8 from a Rover - that was when Gaz 13 V8s ended or something - that is rare. I will try to replicate this in my 73 Volga as it begs for a V8 :)
Also this car is absolutely fenomenal on bumps, potholes, mud, snow etc. - where western cars from the late 80s suck a... (The Volga 24 really started in 1968) and my has also a crank start handle :D
Awesome comment!
@@wyrazowfkp I didn't know that they used Ford V6 in Volga's, wow! Also I didnt know that the V8s in later Volgas such as 3102 and 31013 were Rover V8s, very interesting. Yes, I agree about its smoothness on bumps, I think there was even a nickname of a "sofa with wheels" for Volga.
The v8 used was an old truck engine.It was also more heavier and basically 0-60 was 14-15 seconds.
The liquids in the medicine cabinet are: Iodine (for external treatment of the skin, nasopharyngeal mucosa), valerian tincture (sedative), boric ointment (antibacterial, antifungal and antiparasitic agent). Tablets are: "Activated charcoal", to restore the internal discomfort of the gastrointestinal tract. Well, a cup is needed for diluting iodine with water.
Thanks! I was wondering what those are. I don't understand at all why Doug is laughing at having a well-equipped medical kit on the road.
Thank you very much! Doug has no clue... 🙉🙉🙉🙉
He is used to having the first aid kits missing on his reviews and his many Mercedes.
Cool. I didn't understand dougs reaction.
A first aid kit that contains... medicine. How is that even remotely weird
@@arnet922 1. The quality of Soviet tinctures is sketchy, at best.
2. Most of that is out of date and probably no longer effective, assuming it ever was.
3. No one would ever need such things, 99.9% of the time. Most regular first-aid kits NEVER get used.
That is why. In the Western world, we'll have an ambulance on the scene before you finishing diluding your iodine. I understand it's not as easy in other parts of the world.
the first aid kit is actually really good. So many antiseptic, even activated charcoal.
Hello Doug, im from Ukraine and I am a proud owner of Gaz 24 1973 year. Im here to explain you about first aid kit. Those tablets called “Activated Coal” and they are for taking them in case you have stomach problems or diarrhea. One of the bottles is famous “Zelenka” (translates something like Greeny) its an antibacterial agent to treat wounds. Other bottles is “iodine” and other our national medical stuff that I have not been able to consider and I do not know what else is there included in the first aid kit those years. Guys like the comment so doug can read!
@Cristiano Lopes I also laughed when I watched the review, I must admit that Soviet cars were really bad compared to American or European at that time. But Dоug reviewed the transitional model 2410 and all next models of Volga were also bad (search 2410, 3102, 31029, 3110, 31105 the last two were with new engine with injector not with carburettor and on the last one was model with Chrysler engine. Fuck that, they still made engines with carburettor till 2004....)(Russia technical progress sucks). 24 came out in 70 and was a very great car in those years. And the Soviet person could not buy it for himself, they were not sold, they were bought by enterprises for taxis, medical institutions, and for employees of government services, and only after 10 years it became possible to buy them for ordinary people. 2410 was already for civilians initially and came out in times of shortage in the Soviet Union, so it turned out to be of rather poor quality
@@asapliaguha8542 ahh yes iodine incase you get stuck in nuclear fallout and Activated charcoal incase you get cholera from soviet tap water
@@gavin9962 I live in a "mudern" west European capital. We dont have cholera so often but Legionella is considered normal in the water supply as are cockroach infestations in the most modern buildings. Iodine is used as an antiseptic. If you know anything about treatig a cut you would know that. I am no fan of the USSR but theres such a thing as overdoing it.
This is true!! In order for a vehicle to pass inspection in the former Soviet Union it was required to have a first aide kit along with a fire extinguisher. All cars had to have these. What's so funny about a car having a first aid kit?? It's very practical.
@@asapliaguha8542 usa military is torturing Orthodox Christians refugees in ft hood texas concentration camps
Seriously speaking, the first aid kit is different just because it has a completely different purpose in mind.
Looking at a modern first aid kit in a car, your first assumption is that you have to use it in case of *a car accident.* And that explains everything what is usually inside: antiseptics, bandages, medicine to stop the blood/to prevent the bacterial infection of the injury. You are not expected to use it for any other first aid rather than the injury/trauma in a car accident.
The first aid kit in a Soviet car was *a general purpose.* A first aid kit that you would get for a remote trip, ... but the trip is just by the car. It assumed that you may get to a less-inhabited place (like, a countryside) and have some medical problem/condition, and be the only person with a first air kit (and likely, have no any _other_ first aid kits). And thus this kit is intended to help with *most typical medical issues,* not necessarily car-related.
The pills you were looking at and laughing at, are just the activated carbon/activated charcoal, an early sorbent (these days we have more effective ones, but act carb is still used rather often). It can be used in case... for example of a food poisoning. There are other pills, and some are for heart problems, some are cough/cold medicine. There is even a light sedative/tranq (valerian-based). There are some antacids. The bottles should have some antiseptics, likely a medical spirit and/or iodine or something similar - and in 80s in Russia, you don't have to be a doctor to use iodine on the wound instead of a “modern self-adhesive wound dressing”.
So that's it. Your typical “western first aid kit” helps you better in case of a road accident. A “soviet first aid kit” helps you better when you are far from home and have no any other first aids nearby. Simple. You don't need a _different_ first aid kit, if you want to stay in a house in the woods, this one will work. Though you maybe have less comfort and less gadgets in case of a road accident. But helps you even if you are on the road and got an unbearable heartburn after a bad meal.
Like a God said
@@tarantul707 He's from California, give him an excuse.
14:01 Cyanide Cold War style?
@@bradford_shaun_murray activated carbon/activated charcoal, an early sorbent
I think one of the reasons he found the first aid kit so hilarious was the fact that the back seats had no seatbelts and safety was obviously so far behind western cars at the time
A few clarifications:
8:00 - Blue climate slider controls non-heated vents
8:00 - Red slider controls the temperature of heated vents
8:17 - The second red slider controls airflow direction: blue for windshield red for passengers
8:17 - The fourths slider(not mentioned in the video) controls the amount of air passing through a radiator.
To make it clear, you need all of these controls because it can be -58F outside in winter and 120F in summer.
9:39 - Blank switches were used by government, police, ambulance cars.
13:34 - This bottle contains iodine to prevent infections. It's commonly used by surgeons nowadays.
13:39 - This is sedative. It may be useful for passengers with heart diseases after a car accident. And yes, you mix it with water and drink, because this way it works almost instantly.
13:43 - This bottle contains an acid that was used to stop blood flow from heavy open injuries.
13:49 - Iodine again.
14:05 - black pills are used to help with food poisoning.
Your review is better than Doug's)
Коммент в топ, пусть знают зачем нужны аптечки.
Upvote for others to know the purpose of the aid kit.
and black pills is an activated coal(don't know is it makes sense in English). Very helpful with stomach pain/diarrhea
@@thereallobster7786 Thx, missed them.
Finally, someone understands Eastern 'air conditioning'... :)
My uncle had a Volga like that. It was in central Ukraine. In the early ’90s, when I was a kid, I enjoyed riding with him, whether to his workplace or for errands. Watching this video now fills me with nostalgia. Once uncle was drunk and proposed me to go somewhere, but my mother said “no a way”. He went alone and ended up in a crash. He was thrown from the car, and the car spun several times. Miraculously, he survived with only minor injuries. He later repaired the car and used it until his death in 2006 from stomach cancer
Condolences for your loss
But... What happened to the car after his passing?
@@J09-555 Thanks! I don't know. Perhaps, his wife sold it. My father died in 2020, and he had Moskvich, another famous soviet car. Me and my sister this year sold it to collectioner for $250. And yesterday in the street of Kyiv I have seen the Volga, but not like this, but with bigger cabin at the back. So, this cars are still used in Ukraine.
@@J09-555 These old cars need a lot of attention. In Ukraine still exist some amount of people, usually rather old, called Volga-guy, or Moskvich-guy, or Zhiguli-guy. They devote a considerable amount of time to repairing these old Soviet cars in their garages. My father was a Moskvich-guy, and my uncle was a Volga-guy. If nobody is willing to invest the time and effort into maintaining the car and spending countless hours in the garage, it might be better to sell it. And as I was small, I've also spent a lot of time with father repairing Moskvich) It was some kind of father-son buddy time. He died in 2020, but month before death he still repaired his car and wanted to use it again, but it never happened.
@@olehfeia saw a volga lowrider in kyiv once, surprised how good it fits! so at least some (crazy) youngsters get involved with those :D
@@naturalnonsense The same Volga as in the video stays abandoned near my house in Kyiv
Some notes from an owner of GAZ-24 in 2021:
1. Gaz 24-10 was outdated even by soviet standarts, and everyone understood that, so it's not really the laughing matter. In 1988 USSR was near his death. This model wasn't luxury anymore. At all. There were much more cheap plastic details, the interior and exterior were spoiled (less chrome elements, ugly door handles, wheel caps, and other). The thickness of body panels was reduced, same as it's anticorrosive properties. 24-10 got corroded much more fast than 24.
Original Gaz-24 from 1969-1970 was incomparably superior. And I'm sad that the reviewer didn't chose original model.
2. The gauge panel was also much better on Gaz-24. All gauges had their own units. Current: Amperes [30 A Charge/Discharge], Water temperature: *C [40, 80, 120], Fuel level: [0, 0,5, Full], Oil pressure: kg/cm^2 [0, 2, 4, 6]. And the design of entire panel was cool. In my opinion the precise units of gauges much more informative that the modern "pictograms" in modern cars. And 24-10 unfortuneally had them too.
3. Gaz-24 had the vacuum hydraulic brake booster, which was really cool and modern thing in 1970-th. It also had full-flow oil filter, oil radiator, aluminum cylinder block and aluminum blockhead, which also was a really impressive things in terms of weight and heat transfer. Car had the hydraulic drive of the clutch, which was interesting thing in my opinion. The brake system includes a primitive but workable semi-automatic brake separator, which cuts off the brake circuit of the front or rear wheels in case of damaged pipes or fluid leaks. The car is able to stop using the remaining functional circuit.
4. Backseat passengers actually DO HAVE seatbelts, but you had to buy and install them manually. There were a threaded holes under the seat, and in the rear roof pillars on the left and right sides, under the decorative vinyl. I don't really know why the manufacturer chose to not install them, but the places for them are there.
5. The 2.45 l i-4 engine provided a max speed of the car about 160 km/h. Again, I don't know about the opinion of the reviewer, but in my opinion this is more than enough for the car with such non-streamlined form. Further increase in speed is simply unsafe - the front wheels begin to rise above the road. If you open a window at a speed of about 100-120 km/h, you will hear a loud crisp rustle of air, ripped by the angular front of the car.
0-100 is about 20-22 seconds by offical passport of car. (My personal record is 19 seconds and I didn't even push engine to the limits. I want to try to install carburetor from Gaz-53 truck with v8 engine ;D).
6. These old engines (called ZMZ by the way, Volga had ZMZ-24D engine) had one specific and somewhat unique advantage. Due to their low ratio of power/volume they can use unimaginably (any) bad oil, bad petrol, they can survive most poor service you can imagine and still run. They also have low rotational speed (4000-4500 rpm is highest, and you can damage the engine) which also provides survavability and long-life, and high torque (near the 2000 rpm), almost like tractors. ZMZ-2401 engine (used in taxi cars) had a lower compression ratio and could run on petrol, roughly equivalent in quality to kerosene or even diesel fuel.
In general, this is a kind of exchange of specific power per 1 liter for durability. The manufacturer declared the engines mileage of 250,000 km without major repairs. This was true. There are known cases of mileage up to 370,000 km. Gaz-24 is the only car that could withstand the harsh barbaric operation as a taxi car. Neither Zhiguli (LADA) nor Moskvich (AZLK) could do this.
The owners of the Volga have a local joke that the human driver's resource ends earlier, than the resource of this car.
7. Almost everything positive about this car has to do with simplicity, durability and survivability.
For example the front suspension. It is assembled from four thick, incredibly strong forged arms. The wheels turn on king pins as thick as a man's thumb. The suspension is so strong that it can survive the impact of a wheel on an open hatch at high speed without any consequences.
You can fix entire car at home, all you need is a box of wrenches. Even if you are unlucky enough to stop on a long road away from civilization, you can still make it drive to the nearest town or village. No jokes, 24 WILL take you home being almost completely broken - and die only on the doorstep of your garage, when she completely makes sure you are safe. Again, no jokes, this car has some soul inside, like kind twin of famous Christine. She will love you if you agree to truly love her.
8. If you look at all the Gaz-24 concepts together with the final version, you will see how beautiful the Gaz-24 is and how it stands out among them. There is no strained desire in it to resemble someone, "to be no worse than ...", its design is original and very beautiful.
Unlike other Soviet cars, the Gaz-24 does not have an obvious foreign prototype. It just doesn't exist. In the first and in the last time USSR were able to create their own unique car design and style.
Even now, after almost half a century, this car is not ashamed to be rolled out onto the road, it is not ashamed to put it next to a foreign one. There is no longer a country of origin manufacturer, no model, no brand, in fact, there is no longer even a factory where Gaz-24 was assembled.
But Volga number 24 is still here. And it will be, forever.
Thank you for this thoughtful response. While the GAZ-24 was undoubtedly not a great car, when compared to a contemporary Mercedes, it is important to look at the design criteria for the particular vehicle and how they influence the design. Simply applying North America and free market as the yardstick to measure by, makes this Doug video less than interesting and watching him laugh for half the video over some iodine bottles in a first aid kit is frankly stupid. While I am not offended in the least (I have no affinity towards ex-USSR vehicles) as a car enthusiast I find this kind of video to be a low point in an otherwise interesting series from Doug.
Upvote!
Thanks for the insight!
That's a nice love letter, but the car is still awful and bad. It's sturdy, yes, because it's fitting to the drab life in communist era where centrally planned economy caused resources to be hard to come by. Everyone with a car had better understand its mechanics because they broke down a lot and car mechanics, if they weren't your friends, just robbed you blind.
Let's not paint the history in nicer colours just because we were young then.
Thanks for the info
You wouldn't find it so funny if you saw a black Volga in front of your home in the middle of the night.. 😁
hahahahahaha exactly xDDDD Then we will see who will laugh
That's true. That was like "death sentence". Black Volga means KGB is coming for you
It still look like an outdated car regardless of the color of the car. I still be laughing.
Especially if it was in the 70s and 80s in Soviet Union 🤣
bruuh it will be 5.5 511 V8 😂🤣
Hi Doug, I can narrate you what all these ridiculous things mean. For instance the medicine box. The black pills are nothing else than so called "activated carbon". It is some kind of remedy against been poisoned through eating some junk food. The 1s small bottle you held in your hand was the iodine medicine against injuries. And so on and so forth. All these silly things are extremely useful in case you had a crash somewhere in no man land and have no possibility to call for help. Help yourself with what you find in the small emergency box.
Regards, George
This is severely underrated comment.
@Павел Васильев In my country we call it "animal coal", if you translate the name literally. ;)
Activated coal helps when you are drunk
@Павел Васильев It is either activated carbon or activated charcoal. You know, the world does not revolve around Russia and it's language. It is not our problem that in Russian you are lacking correct nouns...
@Павел Васильев What I meant was that in Russian you don't have separate nouns for coal and charcoal. They both are уголь in your language. In English, "Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements; chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen." and "Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.". Hope you will understand now.
Here is a tip.
All big car manufacturers in USSR used to have a unique range of numbers for their models. 1-99 was reserved for GAZ, 100-199 for ZIL, 450-499 for AZLK, etc. That is why you have GAZ 24-10 and AZLK 412 (Moskvitch).
After 1966 the index convension was changed to the following:
-1st digit - vehicle class. 1-engine up to 1.1L; 2-1,1L-1.8L; 3-1.8L-3.5L; 4->3.5L engine, etc
-2nd digit - vehicle type. 1-car, 2-bus, 3-truck, 4-tractor, 5-dump truck, etc
-3rd digit and further - model index assigned by the manufacturer.
That's why you have GAZ 3102, VAZ 2101, KamAZ 4310, MAZ 5549, etc.
Wow, thanks. Did not knew that.
the black pills are Activated carbon to fight poisonings or alcohol overdoses. The brown liquid is iodine, there must have been also a green liquid which is Brilliant green (zelyonka, zelenka) - traditional in Russia for the case of wounds. The car has classic design and some features that were truly considered luxury. It used to be incredibly cool to own it.
Because you explained what those pills were for, and it is completely believable, I no longer empathize Doug's laughing fit.
Yeah, I figured the black pills were at least iodine tablets. Pretty useful when you have no clean water around. Doug would not be laughing then!
agree!
@@m0nta6ix Oh... and the heater... hi should try it in the russian winter... instead of california. probably hi wouldn't laugh so loudly. :)
Different world, different demands.
too bad Alexei Navalny didn't drive a Volga.
When I was a kid in the 90s in Cuba, I only knew soviet cars, and old American cars from the 40s and 50s, modern cars were reserved for tourists who bring dollars into the country. For me, this Volga was a spectacular luxury car
Sad
Nothing sad, life was much happier than now, nobody was spending 50% of their time looking on phone screen.
@@mshvidogio No, they just spent 99% of their time wondering where their next meal would come from.
come to Russia, in the regions they still drive to the Volga.
@@delvictor7570 which is what makes someone thick skinned and humble 🤷♂️
This car was used in emergency services and police a lot, so blank switches are for emergency light and other accessories. It also had v8 version for secret service that could go to 180-190 kmh.
@@milankurcina6961 rotary? Wow Russian RX-8?
Were the V8 versions the black volgas that people were afraid of?
Were the V8 versions the black volgas that people were afraid of?
@@bandvitromaniaios1307 yep, in ussr most of road police had rotary engine in cars
@@kooteika nice to know that there where RX-8s before the Mazda RX-8
The pills are activated charcoal, and it's one of the most useful things to have in a first-aid kit. I remember soviet-era first aid kits, and frankly, they were way more useful than modern ones. The thing is, they were mostly designed to aid you in case of common ailments (you know, to help the driver feel better to continue the journey), not life-or-death situations.
Modern first-aid kits are mostly useless for both cases.
That's what I thought charcoal tablets are cheap and can cure car sickness or a multitude of issues from poisoning, drug overdose, dysentery or stomach bugs from bad water. I keep iodine in my car but charcoal tablets is very smart.
Why didn't he ask before the review, rather than just keep laughing like a fool he seems on this video!
@@owagarodgers5554That's Doug for you, laughing like a fool. That's OK though, his RUclips videos about cars have made him a millionaire.
In the U.S. in the 1980ies over the counter medications were available at some gas stations, drug stores or grocery stores that can treat common ailments. You can also buy a first aid kit or put together or medicines you think you might need for a long trip. We just wouldn't expect the car to come with it.
In the 1980ies you would drive to a medical facility or place with a public phone(gas stations tended to have them) for any major emergency. For drug overdose no one would expect it while driving. For dysentery you really do need to see a doctor and possibly get to an emergency room. For some lighter stomach bugs maybe something like Pepto-Bismol for things like heartburn, diarrhea, nausea and constipation as it is kind of an generalist medication but drug stores or most grocery stores would have a choice of products that are better that it for the individual things it covers. i.e. Imodium for diarrhea. For car sickness Dramamine.
You would only carry a First Aid kit if for some reason you wanted to such as on a camping trip or far away from help. Also in the 1980ies we had towelettes for alcohol and iodine rather than keep a glass liquid bottle.
doug: insults soviet car
doug: goes missing
putin 5 days later: *THIS....IS DOUG , AND TODAY...IM GONNA REVIEW HIM!*
In Soviet Russia, cars review you.
He should avoid drinking tea for some time. Or keep an eye on his underwear so someone doesn't poison it...
Doug first I’m gonna drink your vodka then I will give it a doug score
*And before you review me make sure to check out cars and bids*
OMG Thats the funniest thing I ever seen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shortly after
Russian media: Doug Demuro has commited suicide by shooting himself 7 times in the back. Revolver nowhere to be found.
With a revolver.
7 times because it’s a Nagant Russian revolver
”Falls” out of a window and gets poisoned before he hits the ground...
ODed on the black pills in the first aid kit
Slips and falls on a knife thirty seven times...
Doug DeMuro disappears misteriously after critiquing a volga. Last seen : entering a black volga.
Edit: thanks for the thumbs up
Black Volga of KGB )
And not entirely of his own free will.
Or a Chaika 🤫
The KGB agents came too late. He accidently drank all the bottles from the 1988 first aid kit.
The mistery of the Black volga 😱😱
Old soviet cars are a great work horse, very strong cars.
If Doug is ever arrested, he would start filming and point out the quirks and features of the back seat of the cop car
When doug is arrested*
THIS!! Is a ford explorer 2012
@@killthemall55 and today, I am going to prison for embezzlement for two years.
THIS......is a Ford Explorer with a V6 and a dude in a black uniform
“There are these metal bars right in front of me and on the sides, and frankly, there is just not all that much room back here”
Doug: The GAZ logo has a *_deer_* on it
Me: It's... a Gazelle... GAZelle...
You right))), there is a big LCV family from GAZ next-gazel.ru/autos
It’s Gorkovskiy Automotive factory (can’t translate it right, word “factory” starts from Z in Russian) as well😉
@@yarkai Factory or plant in Russian is "zavod" So that gives you Gorkovskiy Avtomobilny Zavod
Russian version of the Chevrolet Impala 😳
@@wrencher1998 no, Ford Falcon😏
The first aid kit is actually not a special car-oriented one but a rather multi-purpose one. I believe its idea was not to aid you in an accident scenario but rather to help in long trips. It contains stomach pills in case food on the road side was bad (they didn't have roadside cafes with quality standards back then), liquids for heart in case you overheat in southern parts of the country at +40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) with no A/C and antiseptics for treating small injuries. Actually quite a nice set of stuff for long journeys with no pharmacy stores on the way
I don't really get why he found it so funny...looks like it's full of some fairly sensible stuff.
Carrying first aid kit used to be a legal requirement and the police used to check if it is present and stocked.
Thats right, dude. This first aid kit can help more than modern ones in which with only a few bandages, tourniquets and plasters. Most likely he laughed at his ignorance.
I was confused at first as well, but when you look at it from the point that you buy car and it comes with pills, it's indeed very funny
were those loose condoms in there?
These guys beat you to space.. it’s not that they didn’t have the technology to make more modern cars but their priorities were different ! These machines were designed to be durable and last long which they did!
Not at all ahead in space. They have never been able to fly to the moon, their shuttle flew 1 time, they do not have a rover on Mars, reusable rockets are not theirs either.
@@leosv0 they did mate ! They got your space agency all panicky when they sent a rocket to space !
@@leosv0so concerned with the politik of who did what.
They made it to space. Get over it
This is way more interesting than seeing what the latest luxury crossovers looks like.
True.
I find this more interesting than him reviewing a Ferrari or Lamborghini
This car wasn’t bad at all, it’s like he wants it to be bad no matter what. The pills seem to be against motion sickness and maybe some disinfectant for wounds. This guy is a good actor but bad reviewer, he made 0 research about his topic.
Agree
@Tess Stickels Outdated doesn't make it bad, this is the main issue here. His way of explaining that was pretty bad, which pissed off a lot of Russians, but that's a guess.
If Doug thinks this car being built in 1988 is ridiculous, imagine what he would say when he sees the UAZ-452 and the Lada Niva, both of which were designed in the 60-70's and both are built as new cars TODAY with little to no difference to their original design.
i mean if Mercedes could also make G-Wagens with the same platform since the 70s why not them? It's not about communism it's about if it ain't broke don't fix it
@@kuro9410_ilust the G wagen was updated over the years. Then they stopped to preserve the iconic design and only updated the platform and technology. This design was never iconic to the world and always looked like a generic 60-70s car.
With the diference the Lada Niva is a cult 4x4, in Portugal is a prized vehicule because more than being cheap...is rare and really fun to have;)
The Niva’s do be a great workhorse tho
Absolutely love the Niva!
With Doug laughing so bad at the Soviet first aid kit with basic stuff to treat small wounds and food poisoning out in the wild, I wonder what American first aid kits include.
Similar in the 1970s.
A BigMac and a Coke Light :D
@@sha8608 There is no "Coke Light" in the US.
@@simonbone Coca Light then
Also iodine in case of a meltdown or a nuclear war
Now, hear me out...
- Black matte paint job
- Black leather interior
- Black wire wheel covers
- Nice audio system
- Dark windows
I'm gonna call her... "Baba Yaga!"
Doug the type of guy to hysterically laugh at soviet pills by himself in an empty parking lot
best one in a minute
Those are actually activated charcoal pills
This is one of the "Doug the type of guy" jokes that made me chuckle out loud lmao 😄
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pills lol
I'm afraid He might have mixed them with some liquids from the bottles...
This car had a fast version , was called "доганялка"(like interceptor) or "волга КГБ", this version was build for agents of KGB(soviet FBI). Volga KGB have a V8 5.5 liters, from GAZ 13, even older luxury soviet car.
p.s. sorry for english, im from Ukraine
Yes, all of us know about fuckin KGB.
It was called GAZ 24-24 by the way
The Styling maybe outdated but am I the only one who thinks, it looks quite nice actually?
I can see why some people would buy one. It's rare, quirky and retro. Looks comfy too.
I like it as well
I’m hoping to buy one soon
Stance it
I think it has a Nova'ish front end and a British saloon rear. Add another 2 to 3 hundred horses and now we are talking.
Also important to note that the public transport network in the USSR was actually very advanced so many Soviet citizens just did not need cars. You could take a bus or a train to basically anywhere in the country at regular intervals.
Even today. Something the western car-brain couldn't understand
I remember as a kid in the late ‘80s Romania whenever you saw one of these you just knew someone important was in town. If it was black we were scared shitless
Unchiul meu fusese securist si avea o volga neagra, v8 ul, toata lumea era speriat de el.
My uncle was a soviet spy, he hsd a black volga with a v8, everyone was scared of him.
Dacia 1300 next
The black ones had the bigger engine.
I am from Czech republic and my dad told me that when one parked infront of his school and the men inside were looking for him because he wanted to be an army pilot, he too, was scared shitless. And they drove him to some tests where they asked him to draw a tree, he drew a palm and basically told them to fuck off
yep lol
Doug: This car is hilariously bad
My grandad: The day he exited the factory in Kiev, multiple people were waiting outside to offer to buy it. One person even offered 3 times the original price. But my grandad said no and kept it for himself :D
Yes... this was a dream car for any man back in soviet Russia
How long did your granddad have to wait for the delivery? Signing it over to another would have been signing away all that time for a pittance.
Still, if it had been 1991, it would have been a stellar business decision.
Kyiv
Not Kiev
@@Markle2k Usually it took many years... But because my grandad was a physician he managed to somehow not go through the whole waiting process. So it was about a year that he waited
@@Резерв-е6ы Of course :D Thanks for the correction!
About the heater controls:
- top left knob opens up a SEPARATE airway that sort of replaces air that would have gone from opening quarter windows, so it does not control temperature, it opens cold air only through a pair of central deflectors. this is crazy, but that's what it is:D
- bottom left knob redirects air from the heater either on the windshield or on your feet
- top right knob is a heater tap control - you can block it in summer so the heat can't come in (and yes, Russia DOES have hot terrible summers). 80% of Volgas in 2021 do not have the tap at all, as it seizes open or starts to leak.
- Bottom right knob controls an airflow flap within the heater. It allows to close off hot air passage from the heater core and only leave cold air intake for summer. Which kind of adds to the heater tap knob. It's built really hilarious, as cold air can always pass by the heater core, which reduces efficiency like A LOT and people who drive it in winter (like me), shut this with cloth.
I'm glad Doug didn't go underneath, where he would find a 4-wheel drum brake and front suspension with PIVOTS instead of ball joints (this system was installed on later models of Volga until redesign in 2003!)
I think the right way to look at the Volga is to imagine what Model A Ford would like in the 1980s, because this car much like the USSR itself - was a mind product of 1930s, they built it with 1930s ideas and values. This car is extremely, like war machine tough, super easy to work with and very hard to kill even if you try. I drive and restore these things for 13 years - I love them, and I'm glad to see people being interested in them. Volga has earned its place in time, where it will ever be)
Thanks for the video Doug!
He is an idiot who reasons like a spoiled brat. I get angry every time he reviews an older vehicle.
@@7296rsks When you wrote about the Ford Model A . . . It always impresses me the knowledge and familiarity that people in overseas countries have about the US and its history; but the typical American don't have the same level of familiarities for those overseas countries.
When you wrote about your familiarity with this car, another aspect to consider is _simplicity._ A quote I appreciate from Russian designer Georgy Shpagin: “Complexity is easy, simplicity is difficult.”
@@bloqk16 thank you for your response. I really like American cars, American history and culture, the same way I like that of Russia.
GAZ plant was built by Henry Ford in 1932, the Soviets bought the factory and a license to build a 4-door open top Model A and an AA 1,5-tonne truck. Volga and Ford Crown Vic have a common ancestor:)
Outside ventilation control is nothing particularly crazy. This was a feature on the Chevy Astro right up until 1993 or so, I had it on my 88 back in the day.
BTW, the English word for шкворень is kingpin.
Its a 1967 model, that just happened to be produced almost unchanged for 40 years. It was a great car, for when it first came out.
Doug's the type of guy to laugh at a car's first aid kit actually being effective.
Americans don't know first aid anyway
I don't get why he laughed at the kit. I'm sure the contents of the kit made sense for anyone who knew first aid standards of the 1980s.
Maybe it's because I was a combat medic for 12 years, but I'm aware of how much medicine can change in that short of a timespan, let alone 30+ years ago.
Activated charcoal? In first aid kit? Very funny! Hahaha
@Yule Calma Comrade, only 33,000 capitalist pigs die each year on their roads, despite driving American automobile trash, and not all of them were drivers.
Losing 8 million puny republic lives would equal losing one of their largest cities each year. But boom, that is actually history of China.
Sounded so forced too smh
I’m from Bulgaria and in the 80’s this was the Maybach here. I know it sounds funny but that’s the truth.
WTF
Yeah, a Maybach with a live rear axle and blade springs. Well.
@@julosx It was the most luxurious car you can buy. It was reserved only for high ranking party members or other privileged people. Those were weird times.
@@filmsandmovies988 So much for equality
@@andreiauditore8824 Everyone is equal, but some are more equal :)
Me sees Ferrari 812 GTS video: "meh.. I'm going to bed"
Me sees Volga: *в этом мире еще есть хорошее*
*B E G O N E B O T S*
Me
Yeah i mean i always skip the modern high end cars and watch modern low/mid-tier cars and all old cars. I've seen enough of modern sports to be sick and tired of them 😂
you have good taste...
Да ведро ж позорное)
16:56 GAZ is the official name, Volga was the car's nickname. Volga was later adopted as an official name if I remember correctly, but the actual name of the automaker was just GAZ. Volga also was only related to the 21 and 24 models, not to all GAZ cars, as they also made trucks and other cars.
Car brands in the USSR weren't united in any groups, like you had your GM in the states. All of them were independent, expect for the political parties, obviously.
As a Volvo 240 driver I fail to see any styling issues here.
240’s are dope.
I had two and was thinking the same thing. You post on brickboard?
@@brianeighties4481 never heard of brick board till now. Ima join though. How have I been missing this website?
@@busystudying6711 idk but if you have a problem with your 240 and these guys will tell you how to fix it from cleaning that dreaded flame trap down to those printed tail light circuit boards. At least that’s how it was when I still had my 240 in 2013.
When I was a kid, my grandfather've had Niva with a broken tachometer, so I asked him, how does he know when it`s time to shift the gear. So he said "why do I need a tachometer, if have ears."
Soooooo true😂
Niva is produsing in nowadays, and very popular in Russia and East Europe countries. Since 1977 this car have only one engine.
There are some 90's manual Mitsubishi Pajeros I've seen that have no tachometer. You shift just by feel or the sound.
I still use my ears. Who the hell watches the tachometer while driving?
@@романвойтюк-п2м in Italy it was also sold with a 75hp 1.9 diesel
The heat slider is larger than the other one because it's cold in Russia. You need more heat, so it's longer. Would you deny those loyal comrades that last bit of heat by shortening the slider? Not very comradely of you.
I would have also said that you know which one is cold and which one it hot without looking down by the size.
@@squeakers27 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It gets up to 95f in summer in most of russia
19:09 that's not the battery gauge, it's rather an alternator current gauge. If it goes into negative area, it means the battery is discharging. If it stands in the middle, it means the battery is fully charged. And, if it goes into positive (+) area, it means the alternator is charging the battery
No matter how bad this car is, just remember Volga in the 80s still designed a better front grille than BMW does now.
"apply cold water to burnt area"
preach
true, new BMWs would look better with the 88 Volga grills.
Damn! People are just letting them have lately! It's funny haha
overused meme at this point
Doug: Volga GAZ 24-10 is a Hilariously bad and outdated Soviet Car
Doug's 1997 Land Rover Defender: Hold my beer
Ford Falcon in Argentina: Im a joke to you?
@@premierforce the Peugeot 504 too, but I can't bring myself to criticize those.
Nissan Tsuru in Mejico: You both are noobs!
Trabant: Hold my cotton
Tata Nano: LOL
To be honest, the interior doesn't look that different from the cars in my childhood in the 80s in capitalist the Netherlands. The Renault 4, Citroën 2CV and original Mini were still being sold up until the 90s. And in my memory the interiors of cars like Seat Ibiza and Renault 11 my parents had, were pretty similar (of course, those were more on the budget end, while the Volga is supposed to be a luxury car). I am absolutely sure about that speedometer that goes to 200 km/h, because in my memory ALL cars had that one and as a child I was certain this meant that the cars could go that fast. I also checked Wikipedia and backseat seatbelts became compulsory in the Netherlands in 1990.
The design of the Volga is dated though, but to be fair, the Soviets also made the Lada Samara in those days, which was a decent looking for that period.
Actually there were two different Volgas in production. This one is a "compromise" model intended only to reuse older body stamps. Another one was GAZ-31, which looked slightly better and had around 20hp more.
Speedometer was intended to be used also on a "tuned up" version 24-34 - with 5.5l v8 and semiautomatic gearbox - that's were 200km/h comes from. Only for KGB, yeah.
Doug is always exaggerating, maybe on purpose, maybe because of his "American-ness"
But I totally agree with you, on European smaller cars of the time
@@gg_vard Doug is just hamming it up for laughs. American cars of the time weren't really all that different.
@@gg_vard Doug is very ignorant when it comes to European cars, the fact he bashes so hard on a Volga which isn't so different from European cars of the time proves that.
Yes, my first car was a Ford Fiesta from '89, and that was even slower, had only 4 gears, no rev counter, and luxury features included a 2-speaker FM radio and a glovebox lid. However, that was luxury compared to a Fiat Panda available at the time.
Traveled from Volgograd to a Russian gas production facility six hours many times (cant-recall the time). For an old Russian car amazingly comfortable. Two westerners, interpreter & driver plus luggage. Well safe even compared to newer Russian car variants as a car did collide with us. Cosmetic damage to the car but it took us back to Volgograd.
sounds like an amazing trip
@@MarginB lol
As a Russian I can say, that it's not the best car in a soviet auto history, but what's the problem with well-equipped aid kit? It shouldn't keep you alive?
It's usually never any auto makers providing cars with over-the-counter medicine included, that's the aspect that Doug finds funny. If a car has over-the-counter medicine placed the owner, I'm sure Doug wouldn't laugh for 10 minutes for obvious reasons.
@@V1CT0Rc001 And it wasn't equipped with it. The previous owner must've bought the first aid kit himself otherwise he couldn't have registered the car.
@@lechuck312 Oh, that's interesting.
@@lechuck312 Виктор и Валентин, зачем вы между собой общаетесь на английском?
@@username-mt2sj Виктор - это не обязательно русское имя
My grandpa has the EXACT same car and still drives it to this day in Bulgaria.
Thats pretty cool
в болгарии полно и ваз копейка и нива 2121 )
That GAZ will live longer than Doug
I think I bought it a few days ago would be a huge coincidence
Чудесни коли са прости без електроника просто тоя лигьо не е свикнал на истинска проста кола, а само на електрони пластмасови боклуци
While Doug makes jokes about the Volga, I‘ve seen them start at -40degrees centigrade, it could be fixed on the curb with basic tools, it ran with rather substandard Kasakh fuel if needed... imho a great car for what they were intended to do, and solid as a rock.
@Gandalf Namirreh Why cant we make fun of it?
Sorry, but you are wrong. It's not solid as a rock, it's only looking as that. Each copy was eaten by rust faster than it was driving. It have a terrible brakes, suspension and handling makes thrills in corners. Engine was a crap, if owner had a chance to get a western engine, even in not too good condition, he made swap as soon as possible.
Damn right this guy is a moron fishing for subs and likes and running content based on personal thoughts and not facts, there are very few cars that will start when it's 40 below outside.
@@timoonn You need to ask mother Russia b4 to do so, yankee.
@@timoonn even Russians making fun about it, it is normal at this times.
I live in Azerbaijan and I am from the UK and I have a fascination for Soviet cars.
You still see Ladas and Volgas , but they are fast disappearing.
Every time I see one I stop
And talk to the driver.
I myself am an owner of a Zaz 968M
Those pills single handily dismantled Doug like we've ever seen before.
probably water purification tablets . but who knows.
@@pat8593 Activated charcoal, for diarrhoea, food poisoning , overdoses etc , pretty useful in fact !
Pills are charcoal for food poisoning and liquids are probably: iodine for (painful) superficial desinfecion, some bitter drops, again for stomach problems and some smelling salts as a stimulant. Everyone has this stuff at home in the Eastern Europe :D
That's just American ignorance for you.
@@gregorygant4242 interesting do these items still come with European cars? Charcoal won't kill food bourne bacteria though.
Friend of Doug: Hey I got a car for you to review
Doug:...
Doug: *Roast his car for 20 mins*
That aid kit is actually really well thought out, even has activated charcoal.
In case you get poisoned by KGB agents.
Turns out Doug knows more about cars than first aid kits.
@@raymondleggs5508 This sounds like a joke, but honestly, I could see that as being a selling point to a wealthy Russian engineer.
@@Ang3lUkiit's not a special first aid kit, just a standard Soviet kit for cars. All those bottles inside contain drugs to aid with heart attack, cuts and to help people who have lost consciousness. It was a standard for Soviet first aid kit so every car from smallest ZAZ to trucks should have the same. It was purposed to use not only in car crash but to help person who needs it even if he/she just a random person who got hurt nearby.
@@teolynx3805 : I like that.
"It never got really got warm in Soviet Russia."
I can't take this 🤡 serious.
@@oliveryt7168 looking at caucasus and central asia.
Даг: Волга до смешного плохая советская машина
Мой дед, который мечтал о черной волге пол жизни: инфаркт жопы
Ахаха
I don’t speak square
так. Русские тут? Заспорим Дага. Пусть приезжает, мы его удивим дизастером)
Doug listen.
I wrote you 3 e-mail's already? trying to welcome you in modern Russia. If you want to know, and may be others too, fu** politics.
We need to union, sooo..
1. 2410 is because there was also 21, and previous. check the wiki, bro.
2. There are still running in our cities.
3. Sorry for my English, i've studied it just 4,5 months in 2005 in Virgina Beach.
4. It's outdated. No question. ridiculous. But legendary in post USSR territory. So please be polite. There is a LOT people watching you, we are friendly, so friends need to be polite) That's why - come to Russia. Get your wife and children. There's a lot to see in Nature sightseeing, one of the most crazy cars in whole world, affable people)
5. Rose - one of the most popular attribute of cars in lately Soviet. It's the Meme right now.
6. And finally man! First aid kit. You Americans su**)) Out First aid kit - is powerful. It's like wizard you know)
- first bottle - iodine solution for disinfecting wounds.
- another bottle - actually
- peels. this thing you ruined man) it's simple, but also good absorber stomaср poisoning - carbo activatus.
7. There's Kremlin Towers in logo up to deer. And deers are beautiful, by the way, I try to say, if you know what I mean))
8. There was some crazy KGB modifications of this vehicle. So 200 kmh - was right, actually)
9. If you don't want to go through Europe to Moscow - go to Vladivostok. It's more European and Asian than most cities in Russia.
10. I live in Tatarstan, Kazan. It's the 3-d city of Russia. The sports, restourants and tourism "capital" of Russia. Welcome!
axaxaxa
Ето удивительно что ето лучший екземпляр-предствавитель советской авто индустрии того временное. Машына времени прибыла из прошлого в момент создания)
Doug’s gonna restart the Cold War with all his passive aggressive comments lmao
Passive?
He's not wrong. Communism is Cancer. Its like being a nazi but worse.
@@joshw2929 I AGREE I LIVED IT.
@@joshw2929 Shame how "important" people admire China these days on how they keep people in line. With the covid nonsense. Msm keep people in fear and feel bad about themselves.
Anyway. Doug had me with those pills. Haha, I couldn't stop either.
Hilarious 😂
It's hilariously bad until a black one shows up in front of your house and you have to escape thru the back window
So true!
Laughs in KGB
"black one"- are you speaking about people or car?
@@espro436 car, the KGB only drove black cars with tinted windows.
@@espro436 lol, both options are terrifying!😂
The bottle you pulled out was iodine, the pills were activated charcoal.
"If you had a minor injury in your car". Clearly, Daddy Doug hasn't seen Russian Driving Accident Compilations
*our car
lmao indeed
It’s okay though because everyone was trained in Soviet CPR. 15 chest compressions followed by 2 slugs between the eyes 😂
the medicine in the trunk must be senzu beans if it can remedy the injuries from a Russian car accident
Volga was a status symbol for a soviet worker. My grandfather had one because he was one of those important people. That thing was built like a tank and drove like a dream. At least that's how I felt 20 years ago.
From what I've seen in crash videos, Soviet cars were built pretty tough.
Probably KGB fella ;)
You'd feel like in a spaceship 20 years ago driving Mercedes from back then.
@@TerribleAcid cars like Mercedes, soviet people only saw on TV, rarely. Western media barely reached common folk.
My uncle had that same Volga and we did a lot of family travels with it. I tell you what, it drinks fuel like crazy, but it was the most reliable car that any member of my family ever owned. Absolutely trouble-free for many years. And it was insanely spacious! The back seat would fit (four) people easily! That's two whole Americans! And the trunk would fit 6 people's luggage, even for a long vacation! Sure, it was noisy inside, but the ride was comfy, the seats were very soft and spongy and there was plenty of space to put your stuff eg. water bottles, coffee cups etc.
My dad and his friend had several of them as taxis, my uncles lasted for 30 years, finally rust killed it, but in the seventies even a Mercedes or a Rolls would rust.
"Two whole americans" lmao
@@patriciomunoz2830 That's two American children. Adults, no guarantees.
4 people it's still 2 whole Americans nowadays. Lol
Funnily enough, the police in metropolitan areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg, along with KGB, would have special GAZ cars fitted with the 5.5L V8 which pumped out anywhere between 180-300hp (Depending on who sources the information) but irregardless, civilians weren't allowed to own this model.
In Soviet Russia, only polices have fast cars
My mom always told me, that when she was teenager, and someone drove around in Volga, all the kids were just silent and looking. It was really symbol of luxury and respect those days here in former soviet union area. One in 100000 was so lucky to have that car, because of its price and political restrictions.
It was very hard to get one of those even if you had the money.
@@AntonzBravo you had to get permission from the government to drive one of those.
when I was a kid in the USSR I didint give a F what cars were driving where... but maybe i was just a kid.
KGB
passenger: “no seatbelts?”
soviet Russia: nah, but help yourself to the Aspirin in the trunk
...and some cocktails
More like morphine
These black pills are activated carbon. In Russia, we take it in case of diarrhea
@@DokTheKing6 what? Diarrhea pills on a car?
@@zaxarispetixos8728 yeah in case you get sudden diarrhea in long trip (Russia's big you know). There was also bottle of iodine, bottle of valerian tincture and boric acid in that first aid kit
Fuel gauge: shows red
Communists: not great, not terrible.
Anyone else read this in a Russian accent? 😂
@@fadilh8188 yeah, it sounds like 'Коммюнистс: нот греат, нот террибле'
3.6 gallons, Not great,not terrible
i love the Chernobyl references
@@fadilh8188 I can't read this without a russian accent, becouse I'm from Russia. 😅
I don't really know a lot about this channel, but I feel like this guy doesn't actually like cars all that much
i hear ya. i stopped watching after the 0-60 in 19 second part where he was still laughing. i don't get it, so i stopped watching. what a tool.
@@TruckerCletus Certainly a tool, I quite like it. It has character unlike the cookie cutter cars we get today.
Doug: posts video on new ferrari
Me:
Doug: posts video on ancient soviet sedan
Me: INSTANT CLICK
Fun fact: the soviet secret police got a version of this with an approx. 5 liter V8
Edit: @SwapBlogRU corrected me in a reply saying "I think it was a 5.6 truck engine with, like, 180-200 horsepower". I knew it was something like that, just couldn't remember whether it was 4.6 or 5.6, so I wrote approx. 5.
Called "Dogonyalka" aka Catcher
yeah it borrowed the 5.0 from the mustang
I think it was a 5.6 truck engine with, like, 180-200 horsepower.
Most likely why there's a 200km speedo
I'm guessing that's why the speedometer goes to 200, so they don't have to make two parts when they change the engine.
“What do you drive?”
*”I drive a Volga Gaz 24-”*
“Big deal”
*”dash 10”*
“Woah.”
You know you’ve made it if you own a dash ten
16:15 That light explains the strap. The strap is a copper braid, and its meant to ground the hood. My 85 F150 has traps just like that going from the back of the engine to the body since the entire electrical system grounds through a cable running to the front of the engine from the battery - post. Why GAZ went to the trouble of fitting a 150+ amp capable ground to run a 10 watt light bulb is beyond me, though.
It's for faraday cage affect for radio parasites
As a Safety Scientist I can easily assure that First Aid kit actually is way more functional than what you get now.
Really?
I know, right? I mean, the bottles, i assume are probably disinfectants (i can't read cirillic so i can't be sure) and the pills that cracked him up so hard are regular activated carbon, which might be uncommon in car's first aid kit today, but at least where i'm from they are common to first aid kits at home and even required by work safety regulations in first aid kits in factories
@@Sseltraeh89 that's what i saw there are: tablets of validolum, acetylsalicylic acid, Activated carbon, besalol(Belladonna,phenylsalicylate), valerian tincrute, Lugol's iodine, Boric acid.
Это правда?
Really?
Admittedly, Doug has no clue what's in the bottles. I feel like knowing what is inside your first aid kit, and what you're using to treat an injury is important to a first aid kit's functionality.
Doug: "I can't believe this car was still being made in the 80's!"
Mk1 Beetle in 2002: "Why hello there"
There was also a diesel prototype of the Mk1 Beetle; 0-62mph in 60 seconds.
Check out Lada Riva from 2012 😀
Lada Niva from 1976 is still going strong
Also: Citroën 2CV in 1990, Hindustan Ambassador in 2014.
Also Doug: "Here is my Land Rover Defender - which they continued to build until 2015"
It's just bad and outdated cause it's russian, that's what Doug is telling us
This really puzzles me. Growing up in the UK in the eighties, you didn't get aircon, or rear seat belts, or cup holders, sometimes boot liners. The car is not great, but many of the features Doug mocks were consistent with Europe.
We were spoiled with cheap gas and luxury cars. But reality is catching up.
besides - the lexus looks crappy as well. cup holders became a thing late nineties e.g. in VW Golf
There's a saying in Russia: a car is not a luxury, it is a means of travel. Judging what is essentially a classic 70s car on auxiliary luxury features like air con just sounds like he's looking for excuses to trash it.
As for it being "slow"... It's a car, it's meant to drive somewhere. Not to compensate for a small dick. Most cars today have way too much power and speed, which a) doesn't get used to its full potential, b) increases fuel expenditure, and c) leads to higher speeds and more severe car crashes.
I lived in hot Australia and never had air con . And the cars were a lot more durable then the crap thats driving around today,
I must add that this is basically a luxury car by USSR standards. Not many had it, usually people could only get Zhiguli, Moskvich or Zaporozhets. And most did not have any car at all.
You need to look carefully what pills there are in aid kit. And raindeer is not symbol of power, its just symbol of city, where GAZ is located. GAZ is producer, Volga is model name, not brand, digits are for generation of this model with last digits stand for modification and trim. It was Volga 21xx before, and Volga 31xxxx after. And last one Volga has second name: Siber. It was Chrysler Sebring with m😅ds manufactured in Russia. I have supplied stainless pipes and flat steel to producer of exhaust systems here (well known USA company).
Those pills look like activated charcoal for bad stomachs, poisoning, and hangovers.
Yes. Travel sickness can affect lots of people. Well done, the Russians. Then again; they may be suicide pills in case the secret police are on your case...
Yeah, i dont understand his reaction. I initially presumed it was pain relief, either way, seems like a very sensible thing to have in the first aid kit of a car
@@benrgrogan My thoughts exactly. I have charcoal pills in my car as well, in case of poisoning or hangover. Doesn't everybody?
@@NikoBased activated charcoal does not cure hangover
@@4ndrej smh
Doug, the type of guy to take a car from the 80s that looks like it is from the 60s but constantly mention the 70s.
ok im glad im not the only one who thought this is definitely 60s
Looks like early 70s to me
His difficulty in pinpointing dates of the origin of styles/features has become a recurring facet of these videos...
Looks exactly like every Mercedes from the 70's.
The body style is too boxy for 60s
Alternate title: “Doug cracks up about Soviet pills”
that sounds like a Less Doug DeMuro title
I guess is food in case you go down a cliff 🤪
The dull black pills look like Pyridostigmine Bromide, still today it's used as pretreatment in chemical warfare as a hedge against possible nerve agents.
Those are coal pills - instead of immodium you have this. still works fine.
Maybe he tried one and that is the result...
In 20 years Doug will laugh at a jack and tire iron.
Аптечка прекрасна. Сразу видно, что Даг никогда не ездил по регионам типа Сибири и Дальнего Востока, когда на сотню километров нет ни одного человека.
Honestly, even for the slightest cut you might have, you really need something to clean it up. So, in fact, this aid kit is so helpful. Absolutely true indeed!
И не имея понятия что такое йод, зелёнка и перекись водорода, думая что это нужно пить))
Well said, nor does dag seem to comprehend that it was built for unpaved roads, and there are examples of Volga Taxis with 1,000,000 km on them still running in underdeveloped nations like Pakistan & Russia Federation...
@@davidhollenshead4892 in Russia there are no longer Volgas left who work in a taxi and I would not say that Russia is underdeveloped...
To je pravda a navíc ještě asi nebyl ani na světě .
Those cars are still running in my country “Iraq” as a taxi. BUT we replaced the engine with Toyota v6 3000 cc and they became crazy 😜
تحية الك من العراق
yup, used to ride in these to go to Bab al sharji, that and Moskvitch.
at least people r smart enough to swap to a more reliable engine
In Russia they put 3UZ from Toyota in there.
Which enginie do you use for swap mostly? In Russia we love UZ series or JZ.
They look really cool though, no matter how outdated in 1988. Also, there was a V8-powered version for the KGB. So that's probably what the 200 km/h speedo accounted for.
lol
relax..this peasant presents this car as being in the same category as a Buick or Cadillac ... the lack of knowledge is unbelievable
@@rises889well... The bad thing is he's right. In the USSR it was supposed to be in the same class. You can't have Buick or something like that and the only option for you to get a luxury car was to buy a Volga. And it was a real quest to do: to buy it you need to wait a couple of years (3-7) then you'll have to pay 9000 rubles when an engineer can have a salary around 200-300 roubles per month. And that wasn't all tbh not everyone was allowed to buy it.
The other way to buy it was that shady guys selling "used" cars they bought with their shady schemes but in this way it can cost you not 9000 rub but 12000 to 15000 roubles. So it kinda was like a Buick for Soviet people.
I highly doubt it was because of that. The KGB cars were secretly built under the highest secrecy and in factories paperwork didnt exist at all. Only rumours were going around that there are some v8-versions blasting around. It was confirmed only after soviet union collapsed and those cars started to surface and wider audience saw that these cars even exist.
the V8 was a 4.2L and 125 hp. the chassis has been artificially weighted to deal with the extra torque.
i don't think the V8 can reach 200 Km/h. but i dont think it was a real necessity anyway...
very bad guys in ussr probabely had lada at the best.
I don't really agree that these were incredibly dated in the 80s. I had a late 70s Toyota Crown that looked like the same era styling wise. Remember, the VW Beetle was in production almost unchanged for what was it, 60-70 years?
FYI pills are likely activated coal, which was the most common anti-poisoning pill in USSR
Does it work against the novichok too?
I was thinking the same ting , but we use coal pills for when you have
diarrhea
Was poisoning a common thing to occur in USSR?
@@ianfrench1577 yes, very
Probably meant food poisoning. I don't know exactly why it was so popular back in a days that they even put that into the first aid kid.
These cars must be cherished. They are full of stories and history. Beautiful.
Blyatful, you mean?
Apart from memes and jokes, these old cars contained actually more stories and memories. It was perhaps the result of several years of hard work of our Babushka.
Doug laughing on a raindeer, meanwhile the Cadillac logo has ducks.
Dude... It's clear that he was not laughing at the logo... He said he liked it and it's nice but with a laughable quality of a car....
He kinda went on for too long on how outdated the car was... any 1988 Jeep product would be equally as bad...
=Stag ;}
They ditched the ducks some years ago. They weren't exactly ducks but some other bird.
Be sure that he can survive only 5 minutes in Russian cold!!!
It's a shame this thing is so bad because cosmetically I think it looks pretty good
If Doug was a Soviet citizen in the 1980s, he won't be laughing at this car but dreaming to have one.
"As long as it works, .........DON'T CHANGE IT."
Russian saying.
he will also be scared to hell if one of these will stop in front of his house with few man in black.....
Кто на Буханке ездил, тот над Волгой не смеется. Let him try Buhanka UAZ-452, even current version, not those old soviet ones.
It was a good car, dependable, not American vulgar.
Yes, smug American laughs at Soviet practicality. Hilarious! And they wonder why the rest of the world is tired of America
Actually, the reindeer was never here to symbolise power. It was the logo of the city of Gorki (now called Nijni Novgorod) where these car were produced. Indeed, GAZ stands for "Gorkovski Avtomobilny Zavod ", which translates into "Automobile factory in Gorki".
Interesting, my first though was that "GAZ" was standing just for gas, as "gaz" means "gas" in Russian (and Polish btw") xd
@@pinkraven4402 I just thought it was gaz for gazelle
@@LGamerr That would be too smooth for USRR 😆
@@pinkraven4402 Not really. The "reindeer" that Doug laughs at is a gazelle, or "GAZ"elle.
Many Russians had (and many still have) a sense of humor. It was just generally dangerous to display one in the USSR, lest someone interpret what you said as a slur against the government. Kinda like you really have to watch what you say or seem to imply in modern America, lest someone take offense and justifiably and righteously blow you away or have you arrested on an unspecified charge.
No one cares, it was and still is a piece of crap
Someone want to tell Doug that the "cloth strap" as he said is actually a braided metal ground strap for the metal hood
Didn't you just do that? :-)
Came here for this. They grounded the hood because of the under-hood light fixture they HAD to use, I'm guessing. That's Soviet manufacturing!!
He tends to make many of these kind of mistakes.
@@Phenolic_Radial My Jeep CJ7 and 65 Mustang had the same ground strap. Pretty common back then.
@@EM-fi2qg Pretty much every car has a ground strap for the hood to avoid static building up in the hood or something like that
They were outdated and slow, but you dont give Soviet cars enough credit. They weren't impressive by any means, but they would outlast anything built in the US by decades. Reliability came like a tank.
Calling it right now: That med kit in this car is going to win something at the 2021 Doug Awards at the end of this year. Just brilliant.
Haha exactly what I thought too! 100% a top 10 quirk lol.
I wish he would have taken it more seriously. All that laughing was unnecessary
Exactly my thouhhts
what are those rubber looking things ?
@@ldtworks1052 for blood transfusion, probably :D
The so called „cloth strap“ under the hood is actually a ground cable.
not cloth, but copper. still used in electrical applications
Doug is sadly ignorant at times. That and the first aid kit, there was nothing laugh about. In a huge country with not much infrastructure, you certainly need such a kit.
Yeah it’s for the lamp mounted to the hood. There is only power running to it so I assume that is probably the main reason for it.
Once again it shows how foolish Doug is.
@@Dimme many times in this video I scoffed at him dismissing half of the things he pointed out with the car. If you had a think about why the engineers did what they did you'd understand, at least a little. Not a fan of this one.
Alternate title: Doug laughs at a trunk for 22 minutes.
Or Doug laughs at a first aid kit for 22 minutes
Or Doug laughs at the whole car for 22 minutes 🙄 👈😂👌
@@anibalbabilonia1867 yes
@@cooperpianoman4748 Doug doesn't recognize a single thing in first aid kit and laughs at things he doesn't understand
@@SirNyanPanda It's probably just aspirin or similar. It's a nice thing to include in a first aid kit. Headaches are a thing. And iodine, in case you get cut.
14:00 man Doug was having a good time here 😂
Alternate title:
"Doug takes the piss out of a Volga for 23 minutes straight."
Кала, ти ли си? От ТУ?
B E G O N E B O T S
@@vasilkarazhekov1805 az sum brat
Suggest that to the Less Doug DeMuro RUclips channel as a title for his YTP if he makes one
*Lexus LS400* - $36,000 in 1990 = *$72,000* today
*Volga* - 11,200 rub = $4,500 in 1990 = *$9,000* today (via gold prices)
Doug is an ignorant hillbilly who also thinks a proper first aid kit is funny.
The “cloth strap” is a copper grounding strap. It keeps the ignition noise from the non-resistive spark plug wires from radiating out to the AM radio antenna.
GAZ had great logo cause there were main car and car parts manufacturer in WW2 times and been ownd by Ford engineers... So... Doug is laughung about himself past . ... Or... I think his ancesorts weren't american that times... lol
There were reacher versions of climate control in more luxury Volgas... in 80s Volgas been used in taxi more. There were LADA 2108 and AZLK2141 , also there were cheapest ZAZ Tavria
Doug, you need to live in that universe to realize: Volga was not a mode of transportation. It was a STATUS.
Alex, it's an outdated POS, and wasn't built to the standards of cars anywhere else on the planet the year it was made. The OP isn't reacting badly to it.
You know..In the mid 80s I had a Renault lAlliance. In the USA
I loved that car.
This car in comparison is luxury vehicle.
Doug is being a douche
It was great for head-on collisions 💥 ha ha...
@@marcelogouveia9614, well I wouldn't go _that_ far, but yeah, it's still a mediocrity of design no matter how you slice it.
you went from "goofy" to a "cringe clown" really fast