Thread: Eastern Europe Hot Rod

Crikey!

Aren't those things made of used banana peels?

GQ

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Crikey!

Aren't those things made of used banana peels?

GQ

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From the web:
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The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid, bonnet and doors in Duroplast, a form of plastic containing resin strengthened by wool or cotton.
It did not provide much crash protection. The Trabant was the second car to use Duroplast, after the "pre-Trabant" P70 (Zwickau) model (1954-1959). The duroplast was made of recycled material, cotton waste from Russia and phenol resins from the East German dye industry making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material.

The engine for both the Trabant 500 and 601 was a small two-stroke engine with two cylinders, giving the vehicle modest performance. At the end of production it delivered 25 horsepower (19 kW) from a 600 cc displacement. The car took 21 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h (62.5 mph) and the top speed was 112 km/h (70 mph). There were two main problems with the engine: the smoky exhaust and the pollution it produced. They produce nine times the amount of hydrocarbons and five times the carbon monoxides of the average European car of 2007. The fuel consumption was a modest 7 liters/100km.

More than three million Trabants were made by Sachsenring in East Germany over the period, 1957 to 1991.

I was close, RonMc

GQ

I wonder if you rang Shannons and asked for a quote on a T R A B AAAAA.... no , no the Triumph, not the Triumph, I said Trabant !

Listening to ABC National yesterday, they ran a program about the Trabant. Turns out, the little jigger just had its 50th birthday. The Trabi jokes were great:

1). How do you double the value of a Trabi? Fill up the petrol tank.

2). Why do Trabis have heated rear windows? To keep you hands warm while you're pushing it.

3). A guy in California has heard about the Trabi and that the people of East Germany have to wait up to 11 years to get one. He figures it must be some really good supercar to have such a long queue of people wanting one.
He orders one and it turns up in a few months.
Says to his missus, "those Trabi people are real serious about customer service, they've aready sent me a half scale cardboard replica"...

Several million made, from 1957 to 1993. The heater (in later models) worked better the faster you went; direct airflow from the engine bay, apparently, cough cough


Cheers, GQ

Originally Posted by Quiggers

3). A guy in California has heard about the Trabi and that the people of East Germany have to wait up to 11 years to get one. He figures it must be some really good supercar to have such a long queue of people wanting one.
He orders one and it turns up in a few months.
Says to his missus, "those Trabi people are real serious about customer service, they've aready sent me a half scale cardboard replica"...

Cheers, GQ

I love it

There are some strange Trabants out there

Thanks Ron, I've gotta have that Rolls Corniche version! (With a Rover V8!!!)

GQ