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President Ronald Reagan saw the Berlin Wall by standing on a balcony behind two bulletproof glass and uttered his famous words M. Gorbatchev, tear down this wall.
Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, thaw the Cold War between East and West Germany.
Then, on November 10 a stream of cars 25 miles long passed through Checkpoint Charlie in East Road in West Germany Their two-stroke engines has created a huge uproar and cars belching acrid smoke makes the new breath of freedom almost unbreathable.
Almost all of those cars were Trabant, a small utility vehicle that had come to symbolize communism.
There were nearly 3 1 million products Trabant in East Germany from 1957 to 1990 by VEB Sachsenring Zwickau Automobilwerke CNN, who bought a Trabant to cover the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, reported that there were some design changes in 1962, but basically the car has never changed.
The Trabant name has the same meaning as the companion Russian word Sputnik But almost all owners referred to the car as Trabi.
Today the Terrible Trabant is often vilified as being among the worst cars ever made, but while the German Communism, it was a status symbol if you want to buy a new Trabi, the waiting period was 11 to 18 years it costs up to a year's salary that seems pretty damn expensive, but the Trabi had an average lifespan of 28 years because if you have the chance of owning a Trabi, you took meticulous care of celui- one, Kyle James wrote in a 2007 story, Go Trabi Go East Germany Darling Car Turns 50.
Trabant was made of what the East Germans called Zwickauer Rennpappe Zwickai race card The manufacturer will tell you that it was not technically t cardboard It has been made from cotton waste from the Soviet Union and resins industry dyes east German fiber reinforcement with the technical name for the amalgam was Duroplast.
Duroplast is also used in the manufacture of luxury toilet seats and Duroplast is also edible trabis Many were left in the field when the wall fell Some owners returned to their cars a few weeks later to find that most of their Trabant had been eaten by pigs or goats.
You can tell a Trabant comes off two times, the two-cylinder engine produces pocketa, pocketa racket pocketa and a noxious plume Imagine your dream 1956 Uncle Mower XT with a gasket blown head The Trabi product eight times the amount of carbon monoxide than the European average car, the London Telegraph reported.
Trabant 26 horses from 0 to 60 in 21 seconds Local amateur Josef Czikmantory says its has a maximum speed of 62 mph.
By comparison, the maximum speed of an armored vehicle Stasi PSzH-IV with mortars 120 mm, 100 mm anti-tank guns and ZU-23 anti-aircraft guns was 64 mph.
But the Trabi has a better gas mileage than any secret police vehicle heavily armed the Trabi gets about 34 MPG's an approximate number for Trabant don t have fuel gauges.
Matthew Annen is with Trabant USA The club has 96 members Annen estimates there are fewer than 200 trabis working in the United States.
There has been a resurgence recently Trabi popularity in ancient European members of the club Trabi communist countries give NASCAR cars paint work, drop in the super bike engines Suzuki and reach speeds of 150 miles per hour are Trabant also transformed into works of art and displayed in the former communist countries.
A P50 virgin Trabant in an auction in Madison, Ga to 25,000.
The Trabi is sacred in Bulgaria In 2005, the National Historical Museum has added a display with the Foreign Minister of Trabant 601.
A tribute to the terrible Trabant The Orange County Register, terrible Trabant, East and West Germany.