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2006-10-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Trabis Enjoy Cult Status in Former East Germany

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Posted by mrp 2006-10-20 15:44|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In Czech, it was called "Revenge for Sudeten", perhaps because it was like a pestilence, one could find its smelly exhaust final product everywhere.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-20 20:05|| 2006-10-20 20:05|| Front Page Top

#2 If memory serves, the principal fuel source was used vegetable oil. Members of the nomenklatura , I suppose, pulled up to the pump and ordered the attendent to "fill 'er up! Mit Wesson!".

Posted by mrp 2006-10-20 20:35|| 2006-10-20 20:35|| Front Page Top

#3 mrp, you're making it up! ;-)

1) Members of nomenclatura wouldn't fit in trabant.
2) Trabis ran on gas. You could use vegetable oil in some diesel engines, but no matter how yummy the oil is, trabant would not move an inch if you poured it down its tank.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-20 21:16|| 2006-10-20 21:16|| Front Page Top

#4 1) Members of nomenclatura wouldn't fit in trabant.

LOL!

2) Trabis ran on gas. You could use vegetable oil in some diesel engines, but no matter how yummy the oil is, trabant would not move an inch if you poured it down its tank.

Durn memory :)

Posted by mrp 2006-10-20 23:10|| 2006-10-20 23:10|| Front Page Top

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