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1982 Trabant 601 [P601] 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
![1982 Trabant 601 [P601]](i256907.jpg)
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◊ 2009-11-11 14:47 |
The black door handles came in July 1981. the seats don't look like 'real' Trabant seats. We just cannot see enough to be sure wether this is a sedan or a wagon (Universal)... |
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◊ 2009-11-11 14:57 |
 the Kojak-edition! |
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◊ 2009-11-11 17:32 |
It' a sedan, and the smoke of it is absolutely unforgottable, it's nostalgic to see and smell a Trabant in Budapest. In the countryside there are a lot of them in daily use. Lovely car. .gif ":)") ![[Image: trabant6012.1096.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is149/trabant6012.1096.jpg) |
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◊ 2009-11-11 20:32 |
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◊ 2009-11-11 20:33 |
For me it's just disgusting GDR-garbage. O.k., IMHO everything from the GDR is garbage. Except the gherkins. And a sort of strawberry-yoghurt. For those, who want to have the original GDR-smell -no kidding: every visitor of the GDR still have it backwards in his nose. There was a orign GDR-fragrance indeed-, a serious suggestion: let run a two-stroke-engine (if no Trabant is available, you can take a moped or a lawnmower, too) and let burn a fire with lignite-coal. Then you have 100% pure GDR.  You can pimp the experience with cooking some cabbage at the same time. .gif ";)") The whole GDR was poisoned with this smell (and the dirt, it has caused, too), expecially during the wintertimes. No kidding 2.0: when you had to wait at the border-crossing-points (always minimum 1 hour, even, if you have been the only traveller there), you could recognize by the dirtyness of the cars (the Western ones, others couldn't be there), which of them had made a "real" visit in the GDR and which one had only used the Transit-Autobahn from West-Berlin. I'm so happy, that I had the chance to make these GDR-experiences in the 80ies. It will never come again... -- Last edit: 2009-11-11 20:34:29 |
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◊ 2009-11-11 21:04 |
I was watching the news coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the 9th November, and the reporter referred to Wartburgs as "Soviet-designed". (Thanks to ingo, I know that they were derived from pre-1945 DKW models.) -- Last edit: 2009-11-11 22:41:52 |
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◊ 2009-11-11 21:48 |
Oh, the "Soviet design" of the Wartburg is new for me. Anyways, in that days, every car coming from the East were "Trabbi" for everyone, doesn't matter, if Trabant, Wartburg, Lada, Moskvich or anything else. And older Western cars, even with Western plates, were "Trabbi", too. The most West German classic car-fans in that time had made this experience (I remember the comments in the magazines). Me too, when I'd been in the ex-GDR in the 90ies. If my car is the premium edition of the Moskwich, i've been asked. Not only once.  Really worst it had been, when I had my NSU 1200. Every East German has recovered it as a Sapohorhets. noone had known NSU. It's going on still today, when "Ossis" (or harsher said "Zonis" are seeing any NSU Prinz. -- Last edit: 2009-11-11 21:48:51 |
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◊ 2009-11-12 16:44 |
It's ok, Trabant was a cheap alternative of a real car, but at that time (in the '70s, when my parents were children, and my grandparents bought their first car) only this little duroplast made thing was the possibility for my family to have a car. It's comic, that both of my grandparents are worked as an engineer. They had three brand new Trabants, and they could travel with them to lake Balaton and abroad too without serious problems, and my grandfather could repair all of the small things which were needed. The Zaporoshetz, (which was mentioned by Ingo) was a real nightmare, a real garbage. The first type of that was banned by the Hungarian Trade Quality Control (KERMI - Kereskedelmi Minőségellenőrző) and can't be sold here. Later my grandparents had a chance to buy an NSU Prinz, but later they couldn't buy any spare parts for that in Hungary, while you can buy everything for comecon cars. I am very happy too that now we can reach all of the cars. -- Last edit: 2009-11-12 16:48:37 |
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