The base model with a two-door sedan body became the most common car in the family.
In October 1940, when stamps and sets of stamped body parts manufactured by Budd arrived from the USA to the port of Vladivostok, the KIM plant received permission “as an exception” to produce 500 two-door cars.
The production cars differed from the prototypes by headlights integrated into the sides of the hood, the absence of running boards and moldings, and simplified finishing, but the design and equipment of the body, as originally conceived, remained. In the spring of 1941, a serial CMM was tested at the military automobile research institute in Bronnitsy.
The production of KIM small cars continued in the first month of the war, in July 1941.
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The main visual features of the pre-production KIM-10-50 are headlights in separate housings, the presence of body steps, and chrome moldings.
While the KIM-10-52 was being developed and its production was being worked out, the authorities allowed “as an exception” to assemble KIM-10-50 cars using body kits that arrived in the USSR from the USA. At the same time, the bodies still underwent modifications – for example, the headlights were moved to the wings. In total, about 450 body kits were used.