In about the year 1989 the world took a turn for the worse. I don't mean the rolling back of a stale old communism in Eastern Europe - it was the Trabant. It ceased production in the main factory in Zwickau (East Germany) soon after the Berlin Wall fell.
This oh-so-sexy car with a two-stroke engine had a dipstick for the fuel guage and a blanket under the back seat for extra warmth. I heard that one model had a flap in the side of the diver's door through which you could stick your foot if the b
Published on August 14, 2009 19:17