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"MIATAAAA" (miataaaa) 01/05/2014 at 11:45 • Filed to: TRABANT

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I found a few Trabants on vacation the last few days. Enjoy them!

Idomathforaliving > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 11:58

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I know that if I were alive during the era when these first rolled off of the lines, I probably would have much rather preferred any American car at all of the same value. But looking at them now, it's almost physically impossible not to visualize what one of these things would look like if someone tried to restomod and tastefully customize the crap out of one.

Idomathforaliving > Idomathforaliving 01/05/2014 at 12:04

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Sorry, I should have looked that up first:

Not too shabby!

duurtlang > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 12:18

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Interesting how three out of these four (#1, #2, #4) seem to have the modern 4-stroke VW engine. This indicates they're post-communist cars from the last two of the 35 production years (1990-1991).

Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V) > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 12:19

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...so what were you doing in Hungary?

MIATAAAA > Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V) 01/05/2014 at 12:23

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Just poking around Budapest! What a wonderful place!

anonsagainstanonymous > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 12:27

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Trabi! <3

Rainbow > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 13:13

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I'm half Hungarian and my grandparents might take me over there someday. How is it?

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 13:27

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Oh, if you're still there, take the red line of the subway in to town, and make your way to the Gundel Hotel if you haven't already. Then enjoy some of the best tasting cake in the world!

MIATAAAA > Rainbow 01/05/2014 at 13:30

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It is wonderful. It's a very beautiful place, with powerful traces of WWII still abundant. It makes it a very special place.

Rainbow > MIATAAAA 01/05/2014 at 13:33

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Neat! I hope I do get a chance to go. Did you stay mostly around Budapest, or did you spend any time in more rural areas too?

Also, just because I don't know a single word in Hungarian, I'm curious. Would English or German be more useful? I don't know why I feel like more people could understand German, but I do. :P

MIATAAAA > Rainbow 01/05/2014 at 13:35

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You definitely should! I was in Budapest the whole time, save the train trip from Vienna, so I only know the city.

English is more useful. I didn't meet one person the entire week who didn't speak English fluently (or close to it).