socialist_hentai laugh all you want but that's one resilient piece of engineering right there.
Big Beef Burritos Supreme I think they were made out of chewed up paper, that although not masticated by bees, was still the product of the commune's workers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
Also, I think they were pretty much all you could buy in Eastern Germany at that time.
mouser That's actually a historical car on an many engineering standpoint.
First composite material (sort of a plastic+cotton mix).
First unibody.
and I forget a number of mechanical firsts too. That car's design, a task refused by the state, was actually done part time and clandestinely by the engineers because they knew they could do something truly unique, new and durable. They won. There are Traban clubs all over the world. It's become sort of a cult.
There was a whole TV special made recently about them.
zatojones People have come to see Anderson's style as silly, but what they don't understand is that he has mastered the look of 1962 so well it only seems silly but is actually pitch perfect.
lokibolp A German teacher of mine bought a Trabbie as a young lass after reunification because they were so cheap and she didn't care what happened to it. She said she once saw group of guys pick one up and throw it into a dumpster.
KnowFuture A German friend of mine says sometimes people in W. Berlin would get drunk and go into E. Berlin and go Trabant-tipping...like, 4-5 drunken idiots would have no problem lifting one of them up and flipping it over.
Rabid Vegan This is not a joke: one of the most common ways to fix a stuttering engine was to poor a bottle of east-german cola over the block. And it worked.
boner Like you really have to advertise a car that has a 3 year waiting list. Plus it's the only car you can buy.
zatojones the state had to provide jobs for commericals actors and voiceover people somehow
manfred That's not true. Other Eastern bloc cars were available (Skoda, Lada, Dacia, Polonez).
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