Wartburg 353 1/18
This car has a long and fascinating history, if we can go beyond the usual stereotypical comments to this be a perfect example of what happens to cars in a communist command economy is, but let's wait until the bursts of laughter died down some, and I'll make you a tour of his convoluted past, few of his surprise here this version is not two times and it is, this title is more important this car that I realized when I came up with it.
DKW full story here is the pioneer in the world to accommodate the two-cycle engine for automotive front-drive successfully in 1940, unveiled the F9 prototype very advanced and aerodynamic above, with a CD 0 42 and a new 896 cc three cylinder situated opposite the axle.
Since DKW was located in Saxony, the factory is located in East Germany after the war DKW was reorganized in the West, and finally began a long line of cars in two stages based on the DKW F9 had to be rescued Mercedes in 1958, then sold to VW in 1964, then renamed Audi and all Audis kept since the same basic configuration of the longitudinal engine just before the bridge before.
The F9 was put into production in the factory DKW Zwickau by the new German industrial association IFA as IFA F9 But ultimately, the Zwickau plant was chosen to produce the smallest input start Trabant range in 1955, also using two-stroke engine but with two cylinders Thus, large three-cylinder cars have been ordered to be built in the former BMW factory in Eisenach renamed EMW for some years after the war, BMW EMWs were essentially continuations BMW pre-war, but the market for these expensive cars turned to be much too small for the communist economy of east Germany.
The F9 has a brand new body, and went into production in 1956, now named Wartburg, after the castle overlooking Eisenach, as well as the name of a car built in the same factory during the first part of the century, Wartburg 311 was quite a decent effort for the time, and very comparable to Auto Union cars DKW DKW time aT in fact, its body design was more contemporary, holding his body F9-derived base until the early the sixties.
Wartburg has effectively become high-end car of the DDR, and ordinary people could not easily be able to afford the very East German Audi A6 or A8 same.
In 1966, Warburg has a brand new body, called 353 and was in some export markets, its name was Wartburg Knight, and a RHD version was made for the UK The engine now has 992 cc, and power levels continue to rise, from 50 to 55, eventually 57 hp maximum speed was 150-155 km h 95 mph.
In the 1980s, it goes without saying, the two-stroke Trabant and Wartburg had become very old and hostile environment, with their perpetual plume of blue smoke trailing behind the fuel economy was also sub-par in 1988, Volkswagen offered to move an engine production line surplus in Germany is that the engine was the EA111 small four cylinder OHC four designed Audi, originally designed for the Audi 50, which is also became the VW Polo There was still a very modern unit then, and long life in a variety of VW cars, including the European version of the Golf.
A 1 3 L version making a modest 64hp was installed instead of two times, and gave the now named Wartburg 353 March 1 a new lease on life in 1988, but the collapse of the Iron Curtain and re-unification Germany quickly made the Trabant and Wartburg who also got a version of the January 1 of the same insignificant VW engine Wartburg persevered to 1991, then the plug was pulled the Eisenach factory was acquired by Opel soon after.
When I arrived with the title The Audi East Germany, I guess it was a two-time Wartburg, and based on the historical connection DKW But since it turned out to be a 353 1 3, and in fact a motor designed by Audi, the circle is really complete, and the title takes an extra sense now back to laughter.
Oh, what a great andsharing I am so close to me 311 years, but in the end I got a 64-220SE I guess in a way both were cars that were a sign of success at the time, just opposite sides of the wall.
The car you showed at the top is, however, a four-time The Wartburg received a new video prior to the early eighties, but was still powered by the 3 two-stroke cylinders, I think the new front was made to accommodate the radiator, used to be behind the engine in the previous model the four race cars are recognizable by the integrated and flashing lights, as in the picture attached that said, I would always choose the two race sound of them is just amazing, like a small tuba orchestra spitting happy bees in your ears.
I thought the same thing, the front end, but here's a bit of rear end of the car-they changed the front, or add the new logo January 3rd, which looks rather original Hmmm.
Hmm, although this could very well be the way only to know who is really jumping the hood is almost impossible to find a German car of the East that is still original These cars were kept alive on a tight budget and the provision of marginal rooms It was very common to reshell Wartburgs rotten or damaged with Ersatzkarosse right until the wall fell Even the Trabant unit were reshelled, making most always cars there and a mixture match whatever was available a testament to the ingenuity of east Germans by any means.
Late to the party no pun intended, but it is a 1-3, only they had big taillights 353s kept two time long, lean, exceeding the end.
So they exported a RHD version in the United Kingdom Is the UK safety standards or smog in all it's hard for me to imagine being able to buy a car 'East Germany, or want Ditto with Ladas.
Although the Wartburg had an endless supply of cool hipster as standard equipment, I would want a Nope, I do not want a Wartburg, although it qualifies me to go around with a smug smile ironic postmodern corner on my face.
Yes, they sold Wartburgs UK for several years, they often had full page ads in the Daily Express Annual Report Guides Car World I bought a booklet-spec UK has recently also made an interesting read.
In Europe, the 2CV was still right until he died in 1990 legal so these cars through the crash test, the main emission time security testing did not become a problem until what the late 80 CATS upcoming mandatory in 93 Eastern bloc were large cars here in the mid-70s because of price and specifications were Wartburgs a notch of Russian cars or if the guy of my high Street thought We used to laugh at the exhaust smoke.
Fair comment on smog and we didn t have laws on emissions in the UK then, but security Why do you think the Wartburg would be dangerous they were cars very solidly built with a holding of decent road.
Hipster cool blue Blowing smoke everywhere oil and spewing noxious gases enough to cover 100 new Ford Fiesta.
The thought hipsters were green or in the German case, an overwhelming majority of the Green Party.
It reminds me of an engineer friend of mine who was heavily in environmentally friendly technology, he drove an old hooptie and I called him on it, he updated shortly after.
Here in Hungary Wartburgs cars were quite common, you can see everything now and that even these days They had some good points to the spacious interior, large trunk, good acceleration, even variants 2-stroke , don t think quite reliable Mercedes W123 solidness well.
But many aspects of the W353 was below the Ladas and Skodas very poor stability, it was easy to roll on the design of the boxy body was a step back in nice and detailed body of previous 312S has been designed with a simple production and developing economic, not the looks and quality There were a lot of large metal surfaces on the body without enough and reinforce the doors and the roof resounded like a big drum even doors closed with a loud bang sounds very typical to Skodas Wartburg especially Ladas were much closer to normal cars.
Skodas especially Ladas were much closer to normal cars.
Well, when talking about cars Sovietized, normal is a relative word Their normal is our deeply strange and undesirable.
Here's a Skoda normal since the mid-1980s, the Bolshies knew better than to try them on America of Ronald Reagan, but they inflict on the Canadian market; where the Lada Fiat screwed by guys hungry vodka for breakfast that could go wrong was a modest sales success a few years earlier introduced as the new cheaper car you can buy, the boxy Lada bumpy had struck a chord in Canada with two small niche markets is a cheapskate, of course; and the other of Ponytailed Marxist university professors who liked the idea of sending a strong currency to their comrades in the proletarian paradise.
Unfortunately for the Russians and their Czech puppets, it is only a finite number of pro-Moscow misers to go around and when their pockets were picked, word had spread far from what the complete de-shit-parts these cars negotiations were Skoda and Lada now both long disappeared from the far north and I just spent no concessions middle but disappeared too roads parties, parties, and never return.
And here's a 1985 Skoda 130, with Ontario plates.
Check that the cover on the opening side that says auto industry collectivized gift t innovate.
However, it is awkward for loading in RHD markets A friend had a He bought a Skoda if his car wouldn t get stolen, it worked.
I just saw a Skoda in Victoria to a car show in BC this past weekend, and it was a car of the Canadian market as Minty.
Did you take the pictures I'd like to see a Canadian CC Skoda.
I remember when Jay Skodas Motors UK and European in Vancouver and Nanaimo were selling 1984-1986 and me, they're nothing particularly unusual Jays also sold used Peugeots and new rooms It was a pleasure to be in store, Seymour until her shop downtown was closed in 1993.
Another thing, if it's any consolation, my late father bought a new Niva Lada 1997 here in British Columbia and I probably have a few digital photos of it, if you are interested.
It was a fun vehicle the next and last car was a 2002 Mercedes-Benz C 230 K with a 6-speed manual Merc was also a fun vehicle.
The East German police had as the patrol cars Lada 1500 for the patrol road saw them a year before the fall of the Wall still have the photos.
I have a weakness for iron Iron Curtain was 6 years old in a good 125p drive from SFO.
The 353s were big enough Benelux and Greece, too cheap to buy, easy to fix, FWD, much more space than a Fiat 500 Not a bad package, if you can stand the looks that's the heel Achilles, IMHO 311 -312 looked very good, even EMWs were interesting it is bland, clunky and slab face and who it is that they should continue to do for 22 years Bummer.
Apparently Eisenach people just spent the whole 70 and 80 by offering new models, some of which looked very attractive, but the regime was in such economic disarray that any new investment was impossible Skoda and Lada showed it was possible for some of the Eastern bloc to be competitive cars the German automotive industry is structurally incapable of anything of the sort.
Conventional curbside Wartburg 19881991 353 1, Wartburg narrower normal cars, the Audi Germany.