1982 Trabant 601 [P601]

1982 Trabant 601 [P601] in Zakole, Movie made for TV, 1988

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Weasel1984 ◊ 2012-04-01 21:58	With incomplete rear bumper.
tibi ◊ 2012-04-01 22:03	We used to have one.
Weasel1984 ◊ 2012-04-01 22:15	tibi wrote I understand your pain. -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 22:17:03
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-01 22:18	deleted comment
Weasel1984 ◊ 2012-04-01 22:25	So pain after after this loss... Yes.
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-01 22:37	deleted comment
tibi ◊ 2012-04-01 22:40	I remember a lot of things about our Trabi. Top-speed test with my father... 61 mph. But...I see less and less Trabant 601 here. Two-stroke cars and bikes are gonna be done away with. -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 22:49:47
Weasel1984 ◊ 2012-04-01 22:47	It is classic - I respect it, but I still do not like it. I'm not objective at all - it is childhood trauma perhaps -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 22:51:00
tibi ◊ 2012-04-01 22:56	Trauma? Ehh, no way. I won't cry or whatsoever. Just memories. -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 22:57:06
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-01 23:04	deleted comment
tibi ◊ 2012-04-01 23:20	@Andre Malraux: We loved the Trabi. That moment, when it starts easily in -20 °C. By the way the Wartburg 353 became extremely rare here. I only know one here. But that's a perfect one with original painting and no rust! I saw pretty much ones 7-8 years ago. -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 23:21:47
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-02 01:15	deleted comment
130rapid ◊ 2012-04-02 01:27	Andre Malraux wrote No rust. Actually it has steel skeleton which rusts traditionally.
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-02 01:33	deleted comment
Ingo ◊ 2012-04-02 10:09	Andre Malraux wrote Another good thing about Trabant is that is made of duroplast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroplast). No rust. It's forever. It's not good, it's terrible! Except the horrible enviromental load while production and disposal, there was annother problem, for the user: ingo wrote Old Duroplast stinks horrible, just because of the age. In 1991 I broke a piece of Duroplast off a P50-wreck at our local junkyard (even in Western Germany they were overfilled with thousands of all kind of "Eastern" cars after 1990). I brought this piece of Duroplast as a gift to my friend in Canada -he had to guess, what it is - but with an very ugly collateral effect: all my clothes were stinking horrible, the suitcase and my hands, too. Your hands even will stink, when you just touch a Tranbant, for exapmle for pushing it away. I'm very happy, that the most of this GDR-junk has left the streets today. Yes, there should be some left for collectors, but not everywhere and everytime as in the GDR.
Ingo ◊ 2012-04-02 10:14	The last "quality check" (after 2:40) was marvellous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAs3KOwzLs&feature=relmfu
blinski ◊ 2012-04-02 13:44	Yes, I loved how precise were the maneuvers of technicians to make front lid and doors fit well In Poland trabbis and wartburgs were quite common to see and offered to the very end of assembling, but now if you're lucky enough to see one, it would be probably one of those with VW engine. 2-strokes ones are gone deadly.
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-02 14:06	deleted comment
tibi ◊ 2012-04-02 14:21	@Andre Malraux: I have never seen any Wartburg 311 in my life. I have seen some pictures, some 'reviews' written by owners and journalists, but this is all... If my memory serves me right, it has a 1000 cc, 3 cylinder, piston-controlled two-stroke, liquid-cooled engine, which produced 45 hp. (it was a little bit more- 50 hp- in the 353). By the way I suppose the Trabi would have achieved a little bit more top speed, if I hadn't been in it. -- Last edit: 2012-04-02 14:25:35
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-04-02 14:29	deleted comment
Weasel1984 ◊ 2012-04-02 14:49	In old article in old car magazine ("Motomagazyn") was written, that duroplast was also used as food by rats, which really loved it... So we can't say there is no any biodegradation. The 601 Universal I find incomparably more interesting verison than sedan (especially in the COMECON context).
Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2012-04-02 14:58	There's a pig eating a Trabant in Emir Kusturica's Crna macka, beli macor: /vehicle_83349-Trabant-601-P601-1970.html

1982 Trabant 601 [P601]

1982 Trabant 601 [P601] in Zakole, Movie made for TV, 1988

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