The 1954 GAZ Pobeda taxi was restored in Moscow.

The Moscow Transport Museum has restored the 1954 GAZ-M20A Pobeda automobile. This is the first taxi model to be mass-produced in the post-war period, the press service of the Moscow City Hall reported on March 24.

The restoration process lasted more than a year and a half. Before the transfer to the museum, the car was privately owned and was severely damaged: the body had extensive through-corrosion, and the interior was practically absent.

A donor body from GAZ-M20 was used for the restoration. A number of exterior details were preserved and restored, the interior was converted to dermantine, and the power unit, brake and fuel systems required comprehensive work.

As Oksana Bondarenko, director of the Moscow Museum of Transport, noted, this model is of great importance for the history of Moscow taxis — it began the revival of the capital's taxi fleet in the post-war period, when the capital lacked cars for transportation. Large batches of Pobeda cars began arriving in 1947.

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