Defecting

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/07/2015 at 17:49 • Filed to: None

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Heinz Meixner defected from East Germany on May 5, 1963 by driving under the barricade at Checkpoint Charlie after removing the windshield from his car.

Anybody know what kind of car it is?

Via !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

wkiernan > ttyymmnn 07/07/2015 at 17:54

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Sure looks like a second-generation AH Sprite/first generation MG Midget. I don’t know how an East German citizen would have got his hands on one of those, though.

Echo51 > ttyymmnn 07/07/2015 at 17:54

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin-He… says a quick reverse image search via google

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > ttyymmnn 07/07/2015 at 17:55

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He used a Mark IV Austin Healey Sprite.

ttyymmnn > wkiernan 07/07/2015 at 17:55

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Echo51 says it’s an Austin Healey.

Sam > wkiernan 07/07/2015 at 17:55

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Probably had it before the wall.

Sam > ttyymmnn 07/07/2015 at 17:56

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That takes balls so big, I’m not sure how he fit them in the car.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > wkiernan 07/07/2015 at 17:57

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He apparently got it from a rental agency.

ttyymmnn > Sam 07/07/2015 at 17:58

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There once was a man from Boston
Who drove around in an Austin
There was room for his ass
And a gallon of gas
But his balls hung out and he lost ‘em

Sam > ttyymmnn 07/07/2015 at 18:02

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He also had passengers.

ttyymmnn > Sam 07/07/2015 at 18:04

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My family is good friends with a woman who also escaped from the DDR back in the day. I don’t know her story, but I remember it was harrowing. She’s also one of the best people I have ever met.

As for the DDR, any country that has to but “Democratic” in its name probably isn’t.

Sam > wkiernan 07/07/2015 at 18:09

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Did some more research. He was an Austrian working in East Germany. So he had a transit passport.

CaptDale - is secretly British > wkiernan 07/07/2015 at 18:29

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I HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

duurtlang > ttyymmnn 07/08/2015 at 05:50

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We even have an active Oppo member who fled Eastern Germany shortly before the wall fell.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > ttyymmnn 07/08/2015 at 07:03

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If you liked that story then you’ll love this one :)

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > duurtlang 07/08/2015 at 11:08

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For real? Wow.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 07/08/2015 at 13:54

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Interestingly enough that very same car was used several months later by Argentinian Norbert Konrad to smuggle his East German girlfriend out of East Berlin. Trying to find out more about Heinz Meixner I stumbled across this very interesting December 1986 article from the Chicago Tribune.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-12-07/fea…