What the hay?
@Idaho_Cowboy Photo was most likely from eastern Europe. I guess it has changed some now,but you wouldn't believe all the stuff you would see strapped to the Russian "Lada" cars (Russian Fiats) back in the 90's. Not very many Russians had cars,and almost all the ones that did had the Lada because it was the cheapest one. It was the party officials that had the Mercedes and BMW's.
Not many Russian's had trucks,either. The only ones I ever saw were former military trucks.
So they would strap whatever they needed to haul to their Lada's,and go tooling down the road.
And you ain't seen nothing until you have seen Russian dirt track racing in the 90's. I suspect their equipment and regulations have improved a bunch since then,but right after the fall of communism they went big for car racing,but the translation for "dirt track racing" seemed to have gotten garbled in the translation. It ended up being stock Lada 4 drs with the windows rolled down,no roll bars or other safety equipment,racing on a motocross track,complete with jumps and Ivan sitting behind the wheel with a cheap white motorcycle helmet on,wearing a tshirt and with his arm resting on the open window sill.
American rednecks with their "Somebody hold mah beer,and yall watch this crap!" attitude would be in awe of the redneck Ivan. Damndest thing I ever saw. Since nobody there had tow trucks or trailers,I think the cars were even driven to the races.
