Author Topic: Name this vehicle (Read 844 times)

Staga · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2004, 12:18:11 PM »

btw it has something common with Chevrolet Corvette; You'll get extra points if you know what...

VWE · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:29:09 PM »

Trabant Vauhtipahvi... I think its really a Trabant 601. 2 cylinder 2 stroke about 600cc and maybe 30hp? Top speed about 60mph with a good tail wind... can you say Ford Model A? This was considered 'personal transportation' if you live in East Germany. And you say it has something in common with a Corvette? Maybe the build quality... I cannot imagine it being as rough as a plastic rattle trap like the Corvette but I could be wrong.

Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2004, 05:22:20 PM »

Damn cheater; you looked the pic's name

"Vauhtipahvi" was a nick-name for Trabant cars used in "Rally of thousand lakes" here in Finland; IIRC some of those cars were actually sponsored by car manufacturer and state of DDR (aka East-Germany) where they were built.

Common thing with 'Vette is that car's body was made of different kind of fibres and resins. Not exactly plastic nor glassfibre but something cheap and easy to manufacture.

So your answers were right on the mark.

john9001 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2004, 05:59:27 PM »

i think it's a volksmini parabellem mk3

Staga · « **Reply #5 on:** January 21, 2004, 06:27:58 PM »

Those two helmets behind rear window gave nice touch; I used to have a Russian gas-mask (known as "Pig-face" here) stretched around rearseat's headrest.

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2004, 08:40:46 PM »

Reminds me of an old Datsun (looked a lot like this car) that a buddy of mine had, we hand painted a ww2 German Camfulage scheam on it and took it off roading on some old logging tracks on another friend of mine's farm, with the help of a lot of cheap bear and to much spead we roled it a few times. After each role we would get out and simply Toss it back onto the wheals and go around again, eveuntualy it gave up the goast on us but it was a lot of fun.

Ecke-109- · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2004, 06:16:55 AM »

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Common thing with 'Vette is that car's body was made of different kind of fibres and resins. Not exactly plastic nor glassfibre but something cheap and easy to manufacture.

When you give a Trabant's door a kick with your shoe. It goes through easily.
Its easy to be fast in a Trabant 601. 6 men are pushing 1 is steering. Thats why its called 601.

Staga · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2004, 04:51:52 PM »

Oh I forgot: "Vauhtipahvi" translates "Speedy cardboard" or "Fast-Carton".
And they were really racing with those cars in the era of old DDR.

gunnss · « **Reply #9 on:** January 23, 2004, 03:44:16 AM »

When I was in Germany they said that the way to Double the Value of a Traubie was to Fill the Gas tank..........

Gunns

hogenbor · « **Reply #10 on:** January 23, 2004, 06:57:54 AM »

They're slow, unsafe, uncomfortable, cramped, catch fire easily and are terribly primitive. But they are also simple to maintain, very, very cheap to buy and run and have a bit of cult status.

When Communism strated to crumble in the DDR, followed soon by an ingress of East Germans to the free West, the image of that to Europeans will forever be Trabi's crossing the border from East to West the night the the Wall came down.

Rasker · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2004, 10:38:58 PM »

is it true you put the oil in with the gasoline, as with a lawnmower?

Gulbert · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2004, 06:24:50 AM »

True. Imagine a city with hundreds or thousands Trabants cruising. Smells fantastic and snow turns grey within half an hour, black in one hour...

Author Topic: Name this vehicle (Read 844 times)

VWE