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PERSONAL TRANSPORT: GROUND, WATER, AIR
Goat car. Personal transport
Directory / Personal transport: land, water, air Starting a story about a home-made car, I note that before that I had several factory production cars: Zaporozhets, Moskvich, Zhiguli, and Niva - each in its own time. But on occasion, quite inexpensively, I bought a UAZ-469 car. Frankly, I have been eyeing the UAZ for a long time: an all-terrain vehicle, like a Niva, unpretentious like a Zaporozhets, and most importantly, roomy, like a minibus - I, an avid lover of "quiet hunting" (mushroom picker), needed this . Well, "gluttony" in fuel consumption was offset by low and cheap grades of gasoline used. True, the state of the UAZ was such that even it could be considered satisfactory only conditionally. The steel body, and especially the floor, was hopelessly rusted, and it had to be changed entirely. But there were no funds for this. Therefore, having estimated my capabilities, I decided to make the body myself, using the UAZ chassis as the basis. The question of what kind of body to make: fiberglass or steel, almost did not stand. Of course, fiberglass would be the most suitable for durability - it is simply too tough for rust, figuratively speaking. But I didn’t have such experience, and I didn’t have time to study. But the craft and skills of a welder, I owned quite confidently. Therefore, I chose the second option - to make a metal body. I did not particularly philosophize over the design of the car - the car was needed not for parade trips, but for trips through valleys and hills, picking mushrooms. I decided to settle on a form that is close, if not to the serial one, then to the one that is made to order - replacing the tarpaulin awning with a wooden cabin. The basis of the body was a frame made of rolled steel of various grades, both I had in stock and purchased again. But I tried not to expand it (range) too much. So, all the racks and upper lintels are made of a 25 mm square pipe, the lower crossbars are made of channel No. 5, the edging of doors and openings is made of a 25x25 mm corner, and the edging of the wings and wheel arches is made of a 35x35 mm corner. For sheathing the sides and doors, as well as for the device of the roof, I used a steel sheet 1,2 mm thick, but the floor was already laid from a 2 mm galvanized sheet. Of course, all this increased the mass of the car, but also durability - too.
Body - four-door. However, the location of the doors is like in modern minibuses (now they are called minivans): on the left - only the driver's door, two passenger doors - on the right (it's better for safety). Another door - passenger-and-freight - at the back. It is also made hinged (UAZ had a hinged hatch cover). Welding of the tubular frame did not present any particular difficulties - only careful alignment of the relative position of the frame parts, mainly perpendicularity and parallelism, was required. Pipe bending was carried out in a manual fixture. All bend radii were the same - 200 mm. With a shortage of pipe lengths for individual parts, I welded them end-to-end, after grinding off 45-degree chamfers at their ends. I cut the body skin sheets so that the joints must fall on the frame pipes (in the middle of their thickness). Welding was carried out pointwise, with a thin electrode with a diameter of 3 mm - however, this one turned out to be too thick or put dots too often - in some places the metal sheets still "led" (warped) and had to be leveled additionally with putty. The interior decoration of the body was carried out with sheets laminated "under the tree" on one side of the hardboard (fibreboard). It turned out to be difficult to bend the hardboard in the places where the sides went into the roof - the material burst, and therefore these places were covered with a flat strip set at an angle of 45 °. The panels and strips were fastened to the racks and lintels of the roof with self-tapping screws.
The equipment was mainly used from the old UAZ. Only in the headlights I replaced the reflectors - although they did not rust, they became almost dull. Glass, except for the driver's windshield, was used from the passenger windows of the bus and fitted in place. They are non-opening, and therefore a hatch was made in the roof for ventilation. The floor was covered with linoleum. The layout of the seats did not change, as did the seats themselves. In the rear (luggage) part of the body, just like in the UAZ, I mounted folding seats on the sides. The rear seat, as you know, in the UAZ-469 is folding. I also had to replace the steering wheel (the regular one just cracked) - I installed a GAZ-24 from the Volga. The rest of the components and assemblies: the engine, transmission, brake system and control system - I simply revised and repaired what was necessary. It's no secret that the UAZ-469 car from the very beginning of its production was nicknamed the "goat" * - for too "hard" suspension - even with two or three people in the cab, the driver and passengers "felt" every pothole on the roads, not talking about potholes on country roads. In order to somehow "soften" the suspension, drivers carried a bag of river sand in the trunk in winter (could come in handy on ice), and in summer - a flask of water (and wash yourself, and there will be something to wash the car with).
"Kozlik" - that's how the owners of garages in our cooperative called my car - gained a hundred kilograms in weight, compared with the serial car, and its course itself became much softer. Subsequently, I added one more sheet to the rear springs. The fact is that the capacity of the car - almost like that of a minibus - is seven people, and as a rule, they went to the mushroom "hunt" in full, and also returned with "trophies". At the same time, the main weight gain still fell on the rear axle, and then an additional sheet became not at all superfluous. I started reworking the car in 1995 and expected to complete it in a year (maximum, in a year and a half). But this process dragged on twice, and the car was registered only in 1998. In the documents in special marks it appears that the machine was made in the order of individual technical creativity. Often, mushroom hunting was successful, but it had to be stopped due to lack of space for trophies inside the car. And then one day in a garage cooperative, in a container for scrap metal, I saw a universal trunk for a car thrown out by a collapsed lid. He collected everything that was left of him, and on the day off he welded the trunk for his "Goat". Author: N.Gordeev
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