supposedly Stalin was SUCH a Packard fan that the old '40 senior body dies were made available to him as part of Lend-Lease...but the resulting ZIS had almost nothing in common with the Super 8 mechanically. North Korea STILL has one of these in service as a parade car.

The Chaika is a mix of mid-'50s Packard influences, mixed with the contemporary Mercury...sort of what happened to Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.

(see link for "Stalin's Packards"

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/zis110.htm