A couple of years back I was trying to find something in my fathers garage, and came across what looked like a small but old fashioned beige plastic inspection lamp (the type which had a bulb on a handle with a cage around the bulb to protect it. On the other end of the wire was a slightly odd looking plug. When looking at it a bit closer it said something in Russian.
A few years prior my grand father had died so my father had inherited a lot of crap from his garage and he also used to have a bit of an obsession with Russian cars, having always owned a lada since I could remember.
On investigation this lamp was for one of my grand fathers old Russian cars, more specifically it was the only interior lamp and it could be hung on the bottom of the dash in the foot well so you could see what you were doing when you had opened the “fishing hole” Inthe foot well floor.
Apparently the car had a plate in the foot well you could open, park on a frozen lake and drill a hole in the ice and you could sit in relative warmth in the car and fish, with the lamp moved into the footwell for better visibility at night......
Now that’s something you won’t find in even the highest spec Rolls Royce !!
