After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the family values of East Germany at the border to a flood of new life in their small, rattly Trabants-backup cars but thriftily icons created for decades in the Communist country.
Once at the border, many families left their “Trabis”–who wore a cast for two-stroke engine similar to lawn mowers souped-up and the body of the statue out of a plastic reinforced with cotton or wool–leaving them scattered across the no man’s land or dumped on the streets.
More than two decades after the last slide of the Trabant production line Sachsenring’s in Zwickau, Germany, at least three have found new homes in Longmont-welcome-two with Charlie Bigsby (although one mostly cannibalized for parts) and one with John short.
With only about 100 or so Trabants in the United States, which makes the Longmont East Germany car cultural hotspots.
It might take a certain kind of person (and the right) to fall in love with the Trabant, the Bigsby and short. The cars are often maligned has loads of jokes are seemingly endless-how do you double the value of the Trabant? Filling the gas tank-and when Germany reunite, the biggest problem with how to get rid of those Trabants.