Here is a East German Trabant for sale on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160353125197&viewitem=
the link didn't work for me.. so maybe someone bought it! but if you still want one yourself you can always go here and get your very own!
Ok, the east Germans bought them because that's all they were allowed. The body's are made of some pressed trash or leftovers or some such nonsense. I'm going to buy a wonderful luxurious fuel sipping wonder of engineering instead. Kind of the Cadillac of eastern European technology. Does anyone have a YUGO for sale????
Trabants were built by Sachsenring, in East Germany, from 1958 to 1991. The older Trabbis have a different style than this one does. They are built of Duraplast, which is a form of fiberglass. They have a 2-cylinder, 2-stroke engine that gets it up to a whopping 100 km/h (61 mph). I nearly bought one to bring home from Germany in 1992! I think these are really neat little cars that exemplify the the grayness and overall dread behind the Iron Curtain back before 1990. It's a piece of history, no doubt! If you can find the last Trabbis from the mid-'90s, they have the 1.3L VW Golf engine, and are supposed to be quite a car! Hell, I even have a "DDR" plate to put one! Me...I'd swap in a turbocharged 3.8L Buick V-6!
