The Soviet Jeep: Grachev’s GAZ-64 of 1941–43, an open quarter-ton four-wheel drive on a 2,100 mm wheelbase with the 3.3-litre GAZ-MM four, designed in 51 days after the Bantam and built alongside the BA-64 armoured car on the same chassis; 672 built.
MODEL LINEGAZ-61, 64 and 67BUILT BYGorky Automobile Plant (GAZ)PRODUCED1941–43PRODUCTION672LAYOUT4 wheels · 83″
The record
Ordered in February 1941 after photographs of the Bantam BRC, the GAZ-64 was designed by Vitaly Grachev in under two months and built from August 1941; its narrow track suited the BA-64 armoured car more than the road, and the wider GAZ-67 replaced it in 1943 after 672 vehicles.
Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Body styles & colours
Factory colours
Protective green (khaki)
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.