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| Czech Filmmakers tour Asia by Trabant |
| 2007-09-06 |
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| Posted by:mrp |
| #8 An old Car and Driver article talks about the pain and agony they went through trying to get approval to import a Trabant; seems that that is ( so far) the only car specifically black listed by the Feds. They got an exception when they declared it would go into a museum and rendered non-operational. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-09-06 15:02 |
| #7 Reminds me of what Click and Clack said about the Chevy Vega: it was built out of compressed rust. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-09-06 14:42 |
| #6 When they go to Siberia, tell em to take a Renault. When it burns, it'll make a swell rescue beacon and keep them warm at the same time. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-09-06 13:46 |
| #5 I think I would like to see this film. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-09-06 12:41 |
| #4 I enjoyed this excerpt: These [Russian] officers, however, were an exception to the rule. All along the way, the three men encountered an endless parade of welcoming, sometimes surprised, faces gaping back at the garishly decorated car. “They watched, took pictures, jumped around, shook their heads,” Kozel says. “They could not understand that we Europeans would spend so much money to drive this old crappy car to see this part of the world.” After turning back at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the car failed to start on its own power from Ukraine to Prague. The men, undaunted, pushed the car every time they started it. “We always tried to park it downhill,” Růžička says. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-09-06 11:23 |
| #3 You sure? The underside looks like it comes pre-rusted. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-09-06 11:17 |
| #2 At least the body won't rust (or dent) on their journey. The P601 Trabant's body was made of a composite plastic, rubber, fish scales, straw or whatever they could find. Internal parts were difficult to replace as they never seemed to use the same item from week to week at the factory so they were mostly "home repaired". It hosted a whopping 26-HP powerplant that supposedly ran on gasoline, but I'm told could run on just about any combustible fuel. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-09-06 11:08 |
#1 Whoopdy doo. Let me know when the Isetta races start.  |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-09-06 09:33 |