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The finest in East German automotive technology was on display on Boston Common
By adamg on Mon, 09/24/2018 - 9:58am
Redsox223 took in the Boston Cup car show on Boston Common yesterday, which included an East German Trabant sputtering down one of the lanes.
Stevil checked out the cars as well, including this shinier model, an Allard:
Photos copyright Redsox223 and Stevil respectively. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr, where you'll find more of their Boston Cup photos.
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Comments
She'll go 300 hectares on a
She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.
A hectare is a unit of area
not distance. But maybe she only goes in circles, and goes around 300 hectares on a single tank. That's probably what you meant.
Damn you
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E09/240322.jpg?b64lines=IFNIRSdMTCBHTyAzMDA...
Yeah well
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I likes it!
Put it in H!
n/t
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Zippy the Pinhead
Looks like a workhorse
Were they reasonably reliable and easy to maintain?
There's an old joke
Not sure if it was about the Yugo or the Trabant, but it doesn't much matter:
Q. How do you double the value of a Trabant?
A. Fill up the gas tank.
But, yes, if you click on the link, you'll see they were designed to make maintenance, at least of the engine, easy.
Trabant owner
Thanks for the pic! It's my Trabi, and it only smokes a little, until it warms up. The oils and gasoline we use today are far better than what they had back in the day. The average gasoline in East Germany was 67 octane and the oil for these cars was mineral oil with a little petroleum thrown in for ha-ha's. Today's regular gasoline is 87 octane. For oil, I use Lucas semi-synthetic 2-cycle oil in mine. Fun to drive, and runs like a top! A very reliable little car, with lots of history and emotion behind it.
Thanks for sharing
More of a fan of curvy sports cars, but enjoyed wandering by your Trabant a couple of times and noted the simple efficient engine design.
We've been to the Boston Cup a few times. Fun event if you can make it.
And lots less trash than the gonja fest the week before.
Iron Curtain Escape Pod
Back when I was a college co-op intern, I had a coworker whose family had a Trabi when he was growing up. It was considered to be higher class than a Skoda, which most other Czech families had, and they only had it because his mother was a Forestry official, apparently.
In 1968, when Austria threw open its borders for something like a 36 hour period, his family of 5 was already camping in the Southern part of the Czech republic when his parents decided to make a run for it. They had to go over mountains, which meant that all but the driver had to get out of the car on steeper slopes and walk up! The Trabi saw them through to Austria, though.
This was before the Velvet Revolution, so I don't know if they ever went back. As of 1988, they were still camping.