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Let's start this review box with some questions.
Which car was the first to use a body made from recycled materials.
Which car was so sought after that you had to wait ten years to get one.
What car has become a symbol for the first position in the country yet, he produced and later for the reunification of a divided country.
You guess After all this is a review of the in-box kit Revell Germany Trabant 601 For the last question, there is an explanation If you pressed in, it is so narrow that your knees will cover your ears.
The Trabant was the iconic car in East Germany Although it was not the only passenger car produced in the country, it was the most common car about twice that of the other car is German, medium size Wartburg - were built every former GDR citizen can say is at least a Trabant history often involving adventures in the acquisition of spare parts and for most of them it was the car in which they learned driving and the first car they owned because of its widespread nature of the car has many nicknames or diminutive trabbi cardboard Pappe less friendly, referring to the appearance of the paint before body panels were the most common nowadays, almost twenty years after the last Trabant rolled off the production line, it has become an object of nostalgic memories so much so that the production of a pipe retro electric version of the car is considered.
The development of the Trabant started in the early 1950ies, when the German automotive industry is looking for a substitute for the metal used as material for car bodies This type of material that could be shaped by pressing was not locally produced and imported had to be one of the studied materials is a composite of recycled cotton fibers and phenolic resin for aircraft types think of a Spitfire seat and you get a pretty good idea of what it looked like after long research the properties were good enough for use in a car body and small-scale production of a car has been started the car factory Zwickau Underneath his plastic skin that car, named P-70 was essentially aa sedan pre-war DKW F8 a car of this size - based successor of the same F8 F9 and later Wartburg 311 was already production in Eisenach engine works What was really needed was a small car - big enough for four people and luggage, simple construction and maintenance ion and with a price tag that allowed the average worker therefore allow smaller version of the car, using a two-cylinder air-cooled two-stroke engine with a 500 cubic centimeter displacement dashing has been developed this car name - P 50 - entered the mass production in the Sachsenring 1957- newly created Werke named after a famous race track near Zwickau and essentially a conglomerate of the Audi pre-war DKW and Horch works.
A competition was held among the company workers to find a name for the new car since it was in 1957 is not surprising that the accepted name was a German equivalent of the Russian Sputnik and thus the name Trabant was introduced Compared the little contemporary music cars from western countries like the French Citroën 2CV, the Fiat 500 Italian, Germanischer Lloyd west of cars or even the Volkswagen Beetle, the car was very competitive in the comfort of performance and passenger Some design features such as wheel drive before the engine before it was quiet and modern Trabant first model was produced until 1963 when the engine was replaced by a larger version now with displacement 600cc and designation changed Trabant 600 a year later, the body style has been modernized and the car has a trapezoid or square shape ed more modern resulting in a more spacious interior this car was the Trabant 601, which should become the Volkswagen is German for 26 years to originally it was planned to produce t he car until about 1967, but due to economic and political pressures restrictions successor never made in mass production Many new cars have been developed, but each time the politburo decided that 601was quite good and the engineers were relegated to only make minor improvements to the existing car.
The same thing happened to another German car Wartburg 353 was produced without major changes from 1965 to 1988 In 1980 the Trabant and Wartburg became symbols to stall economic development and political development the view everyday of these cars was a constant reminder to the people that the socialist system of East Germany was beyond reform the two-stroke engine was not only smelly and contributed largely to the air pollution in German cities in the East, but also the relatively low energy efficiency usually six or seven liters per 100km is not a bad value, but given the modest 26 horsepower engine, it was just right at the end of the decade, even political leaders understood and bought the license to produce a liter to 1 1 1 3 liter engine with four Volkswagen time the engine fl installed in the Trabant with only minor changes to the rest of the car the sarcastic comment of the people t was his Bonmot that the installation of a VW engine in a Trabant is like implanting a pacemaker to mummy in fact, the GDR was almost history when mass production of the Trabant 1 1 a started in May 1990 with the monetary union between the two Germanies in July 1990, the car has become virtually unsaleable from the east Germans prefer to hand Western cars to new Trabant and so the last Trabbi left the production line in April, 30 1991 during the 34 years of production over three million were built Trabant - 2 8 million of these 601 models the car has been exported to several countries in Central and Eastern Europe and so was a common sight in the streets of Hungary Czechoslovakia Poland or Bulgaria as well.
Trabant was built in three body styles including two-door limousine sedan, as a universal station wagon and a Kьbelwagen style version open the Kьbelwagen was reserved for the armed forces, border police and forest management and not available for individuals sedan and station wagon came in different configurations as standard, a more luxurious version S and the most expansive selection the deluxe version with plated bumper chrome and two color color trim was no option This n is not surprising, given that there was no way to know which colors would be available for delivery of ten years or more after ordering the car in the late 1980s the typical Trabant colors were Papyrus somewhere between gray-white and light and Gletscherblau pale blue, slightly grayish, although other color tones principaleme nt green, yellow and gray were also used the official price of the car in the late eighties was about 12,000 German marks of which is roughly equivalent to the year i Ncome of a skilled worker but on private market prices for relatively new cars were even higher and, in some cases, paid blue tiles Code is German for D-Marks West Germany since the supply of cars never met demand the waiting lists were very long and grew even longer by the fact that each citizen is German above the age of 18, the legal age for driving was on a waiting list, regardless if he really wanted a car or not after all you could sell your position on the list for a considerable price to someone who was not so patient, it seems that even in a planned economy there not to evade the rules of the m arket another reason for the scarcity of cars was the usual lifespan of a car could reach 25 to 30 years which has created the demand for spare parts and it is said that 30 percent of the parts produced were sold as spare parts at the end, it was impossible to put a new car production for this reason alone, you can keep factories busy producing only buy spare parts.
Air cooled engine 2 Engine cylinder 2-stroke engine of 600 cubic centimeter and 26 hp 18 kilowatts.
When the Berlin Wall fell and West German streets were flooded with East German Trabant tour, people Revell realized the potential for a kit of this car The time factor was deciding and kit was developed and rushed into production in 1990. According to legend, only to get information about the car they just bought one that unfortunately turned out to be a car that was heavily reconstructed after an accident so this kit was some unusual features such as two different styles of bumpers at the beginning and end of each end of the car body shape was a little off too close to the front windows and too stiff back and the kit had some simplifications that have him gave an appearance of the toy front and rear lights came in chrome plated solid parts without clear inserts and of course there was a kit curbside So when R Evell announced a Trabant kit to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall at the beginning of this year, the first thought was that this would be a repeat of th e old Kit Fortunately Revell did not take the easy road, but developed And a new complete kit which kit is.
When I held the box in my hands, it seemed to be too big for a car the size of a Trabant But in reality, the box is really full of coins In addition to the body of the car itself, it contains about 130 parts on white six and a clear sprue bagged separately and five vinyl tires parts are tone molded edge, but show a small amount of ejectors flash pin marks are generally positioned so that will be hidden on the model compartment filled engine and trunk can be displayed hood open, using mobile and the trunk lid SETS hood has beautiful detail showing internal padding soundproofing a complete engine and suspension is provided, although the engine is so small - even in the small engine compartment of the Trabant - it seems a little lost, but it was a 600 ccm engine - smaller than many motorcycle engines.
The trunk is packed not only in but also contains a spare wheel The roof is a separate room and can be left unglued if you want to have a better view of the interior of the car a clear sprue holds not only windows, but also lenses and covers for all the many headlights, taillights and turn indicators windows are separate pieces that must be installed outside a small correction noted in the statement said that the kit does not come with a chrome sprue C as indicated in the instructions I'm not sure why Revell decided against plating at the last moment but since most of the parts on this engine barbecue sprue, C-pillar air vents, body decoration strips are made dull anodized aluminum on the original car, it is not really a loss the instruction sheet describes the construction sequence in step 42 s, providing paint information for Revell paints over there is a little booklet of the Trabant Club owners who apparently helped with the development of Revell kit.
Further analysis of the parts shows that the car shown in this kit is very late model 601 S, probably from 1988 or 1989 because it has the rear suspension coil spring which replaced the leaf spring unit Externally origin in 1988 if you leave the side suspension details the car has all the signs of a late style bumper model after 1980, headrest and steering wheel It is also obvious that plans Revell two version a break kit in the future as all the specific parts on the roof of the saloon version, internal side panels, trunk lid and insert are on a separate sprue, I'm not sure but it Kьbelwagen would not that difficult a conversion project for the ambitious modeller.
The decal sheet several countries belong to which the license plates and signs of countries for the countries of Central Europe as well as instruments and Trabant and signs Sachsenring for the hood and rear of the car Unfortunately, the instructions are not clear signs that the registration plates here is a short list of what should belong together.
IMF 2-36 Berlin and XK 10-89 Chemnitz Zwickau are plates East Germany and use the DDR or DDR helmed D and R.
PZF 1089 PL is a Polish license plate, style before 1999 Poznan.
AHT is a 42-16 Czechoslovak plate CS Prague.
W W 4702 is Austrian A, style and Vienna from 1990 to 2002.
SK 91 EC is a new German office style plate 1994 and does not require a sign dedicated country.
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