impressive lift ability for a wrecker (tow truck)

found on http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/

Tow trucks were sometimes made from big used cars, because trucks were really expensive, so here's a Packard and 2 other cars converted

photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=733

Cool old russian vehicles!

1913 Rus­sobalt Type-Kegresse1939–1946. Total 33 840 units were pro­duced. This truck is pow­ered by gas gen­er­a­tor that used fire­wood (or coal) to pro­duce gas that pow­ers the engine. Because of this it has low power and speed, it is dif­fi­cult to ser­vice and not so easy to start up. But because the lack of gaso­line in some north regions this truck was indispensable. Yag -12 all four