Off topic but interesting, at least to me

My Nova was delivered to my new house the other day. When the car carrier arrived, my car was in the very front, so the driver had to unload several cars in order to get mine out. A mini car show in my own street!

When it was time to load the cars up again, he asked for my help in loading two of the vehicles, since he was by himself and this pair was very difficult to drive onto the carrier because of their size - one was extremely wide, and the other was extremely narrow. I offered to be the one who spotted the driver, but he very generously let me drive the following cars down the street and onto the carrier:

This is a ZAZ, a late 60's-mid 70's Communist-era crap car from Ukraine (Think Trabant or Yugo, only with lower quality). This car is interesting in that its 4-cylinder engine did double duty as the starter motor for Soviet tanks. It was quite interesting trying to find first gear in this car, as all of the gauges and printing were in Russian. (Pic from Wikipedia)

The other car I drove was a 1941 Packard LeBaron 180, a true beauty of a prewar car. Looking out over the hood of this baby was like staring over a coffin lengthwise, and the luxury of the interior was indescribable. This one was easier for me to figure out how to drive, as I have prior experience driving cars with "three on the tree". (Pic from hubcapcafe.com)

(By the way, I didn't use pictures of the actual cars because I don't want the driver to get into any trouble, however remote that possibility might be. He only asked me to help him load these particular cars in order to ensure that they weren't damaged in the process. We were extremely careful, and I treated them as I would my own classic car.)