John,

The gadget behind the headlights, is a tow bar. In Eastern Europe, when towing a truck on a road or highway, the 2 vehicles must be connected by a solid iron bar. It’s prohibited to use cable or rope... or just boom crane cables.

The truck gets all mandatory pieces of equipment (tow bar, flasher light on the top of the cab), the fuel tank is full – just fire the engine and it’s ready to give you a lift or a ride.

Dan

Dan
The bull is slow, but the rice plantation is patient

And how much fish-tailing did the towed vehicle do?  Forty-five years ago I bought a '53 Chevrolet sedan to use for a work car because the smokestack emissions where I worked were not being kind to the white top on my new convertible.  At that time I did not know that you could rent tow bars from U-Haul or anyone else.  Someone told me that a co-worker probably had a tow bar I could borrow.  As Andy Griffith would say, "what it was was a clamp that clamped onto the bumper of the towing vehicle and another clamp that clamped onto the bumper of the towed vehicle with a joint between the two clamps that let the clamps hinge, i.e. wobble back and forth."  That was one of the most nerve-wracking drives I ever made.  Coming up the 4-lane that Chevy was dancing around so bad I could not travel 35-miles an hour.  To make a long story short I got halfway home and sold the car.  

Vehicle enthusiast at Sweet Springs, WV