The History of Creation
«KhADI-2» was built in 1961 by the Students Designing Bureau (SDB) at the automobile faculty of KhAHI under the leadership of the Master of Sport V.K. Nikitin as an experiment for the development of new materials and technologies.
The car «KhADI-2» is the first tourist class car with a fiberglass body in the USSR. «KhADI-2» model is a two-seater convertible of a little more than 4 meters long.
The body has no doors and it is made by fiberglass inset of 10 layers on a full-size plaster model coated with separating layer of paraffin. The function of carcass is performed by a frame welded of shaped tubes. As a result, the car mass is less than 500 kg.
The engine with the clutch from the motorcycle «M-72» was taken for «KhADI-2». The engine is two-cylinder, opposed and flat-head. The main units and components – chassis, front suspension and steering, transmission system and rear axle – were borrowed from the series «Moskvich-402», as well as a large part of exterior decoration - the bumpers, grille, rear lights, headlamp rims, lampshade illumination of a licence plate.
