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Vacation 2010September 22, GermanyGo Trabi, Go! |
Home of the Trabi |
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For the last leg of our road trip, Jutta and Jürgen borrowed a
Trabant from a friend. This car, nicknamed "Trabi" was an East German icon.
It remained almost entirely unchanged for 30 years and over 3 million of them were built during that time.
Volker's family was lucky enough to own one of them and the trip brought back a lot of memories. While the adults enjoyed the ride in the front, Volker and his sister on the back seat were again ten and seven years old. |
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Amazing, how few parts it takes to build something that is actually moving.
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Built almost entirely from plastic, using only bare essentials and equipped with a noisy, stinky 2-stroke 26 horse power engine, the "racing cardboard" made almost 70 km/h (45 mph) - downhills and downwind. |
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To introduce yet another East-German old-timer: Here (left) is Volker's brother on a 30 year-old moped, called Schwalbe (Swallow). Ever since a Swiss watchmaker (rerally!) introduced the Daimler Smart (right), Trabant is not the smallest German car anymore. But the East-German old-timer is still so iconic that one can find it everywhere.
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Trabant Meeting in Leipzig.
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Restaurant- and Safari-Trabis in Potsdam, Pink Trabant at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin.
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Trabant Show in Potsdam.
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A big Thank You to Jutta and Jürgen for two unforgetable days!
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