Oh hey there little guy!

"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
06/03/2016 at 14:41 • Filed to: None

You alone? Wanna see some puppies?

Haven’t a Trabant P60 in ages. They are pretty cute.

DISCUSSION (7)

crowmolly > Klaus Schmoll
06/03/2016 at 14:47

So cool!

For Sweden > Klaus Schmoll
06/03/2016 at 14:48

It looks so cute right before it drags you to Hohenschönhausen

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > For Sweden
06/03/2016 at 15:08

Is that bad?

For Sweden > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/03/2016 at 15:09

Depends upon your views of Marxism-Lenninism

Cé hé sin > Klaus Schmoll
06/03/2016 at 15:16

Trabis were quite contemporary when they were first introduced. After all Auto Union and Saab were using (nearly) the same DKW two stroke engine and people didn’t think they were old fashioned. There was even a Trabi coupé, now worth serious money if you have one.

Then it all went downhill with the designers submitting modern prototypes to their bosses and being rejected each time because they could sell every grey or brown 601 they could make and why change? Instead lots of time and money were spent on importing an old production line from VW to make four stroke engines which they got running just in time for the Wende .

VEB Sachsenring did manage to make 150,000 four stroke Trabis though.

There are thought to be about 30,000 Trabis left in various states of repair.

PS: Why doesn’t it have H plates?

Klaus Schmoll > Cé hé sin
06/03/2016 at 15:25

It’s on temp plates May-October. I guess they are even cheaper. I could have asked the owner but I didn’t notice at the time, and was rushing to get to the beach.

The P50 and P60s relatively short model runs show that they were trying keep up, even when the 601 was around they had all sorts of interesting prototypes including one with a Golf-style hatch years before the Golf, but these never got greenlighted since the Politbüro was tight on money and the cars they could produce sold anyway.

Edit: I just realized that I just told you what you wrote before. Guess the sun made my head woooozy.

Party-vi > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
06/03/2016 at 15:44

Nyet. I mean “nein”. I mean “no”.