How about a this Tatra? With rear mounted Air Cooled V8 no less! This is the later twin cam Hemi Tatra V8 - still air cooled
holy god, what holds the trabi together? a prayer? they are not quite fiberglass. no safety glass either, not even the windshield. little weedwacker motor... barely do 60mph and that due to the fact it only weighs 1200lbs... i would imagine almost like putting a cox engine on a paper airplane.
I couldn't help but stumble across this on another site when I remembered this thread. I would personally change quite a few things, but it definately has some potential. More here: http://englishrussia.com/?p=388
Nah... That is just fake Retro Style... Like the PT Cruiser/ Tbird / Bug / Mini / etc.... Really has nothing to do with an actual Old Car.
Did anybody watch the Top Gear about Soviet cars? They are all absolute garbage. Clarkson hit one with a hammer and it just bounced off, didn't even ding it. The older stuff looks cool, but most of that stuff is just crappy cars made even worse by Soviets.
Last I heard a Trabant is illegal to import being classified as a "Gross Polluter". StreetRodder hid an article or 2 on East Block hot rodding. Seems the Mercedes V8 is as popular with them as the SBC is here.
I was soooooo close to buying one of these in the Netherlands, in 1991. It was a Hungarian Embassy vehicle for many years, and was then owned by a Dutch guy. I saw the car at a car show/swap meet and drooled all over it! He had all of the history and documentation. It was the epitome of Cold War auto lust! We could not agree on a price, so someone else probably ended up with it, I'm sure. The car in the pic is an example, not the same car I was looking at...!
Oh, yeah, the little Trabant, or "Trabbi"...the East German Autobahn burner! Oil burner, that is! I like the look of the Kombi pictured!
A Trabant is legal to import - it has to be 25 years old to be exempt from the EPA/DOT regs, though. I know of two in OK and at least four in Texas, and all are tagged/titled.
^^^^And why they don't have to worry about theirs being stolen^^^^!!! At least the steering wheels are on the right (correct) side. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.
There have been over a dozen threads on here this year about rods getting stolen. muscle cars are another target.
How the hell did this thread stay open? I'm thinkin there was some "collusion" a foot to keep the mods occupied.
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