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    Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    I always wanted to make a Trabant (carnival ride) with real Trabants for the seats. You know, like a kiddy car ride except for adults. These would do very nicely.
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    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Do they smell as yummy as they look?
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    Image of GasGuzzler GasGuzzler
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Now for our next topic, suriving the ages - Government Motors/Chrysbama vs Trabant; steel cage match of communist manufacturers.
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    P161911 promoted this comment Edited by GasGuzzler at 08/28/09 11:42 AM GasGuzzler was starred GasGuzzler was unstarred
    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    08/28/09

    @GasGuzzler: I still remember the essay question on my AP European Exam. Compare and contrast capitalism vs. communism. I did this by comparing East Germany and the Trabant with West Germany and the Mercedes 300SL gullwing. I passed.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Wow! Luxury and the smoke/smell of a two-cycle engine!
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    08/28/09

    @I gotta job, I'm gonna pay the rent: I would be amazed if the limo still had the 2 stroke 2 banger.
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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    My head is about to explode. So much awesome parked in one place that I don't know what to say. The Trabant is an automotive Holy Grail for me that is second only to the Zaporozhetz 965 in awesomeness and desirability. It is a life long dream for me to own one or ten of them. Given the choice between the chance to drive a Ferrari 599 and a Trabant 601, I would rather drive the Trabi. Given the choice for ownership and I would take the Ferrari... then sell it and buy several Soviet Block cars for my collection (Probably a Lada 2101, Gaz Pobeda 4x4, Gaz Volga in it's 2 incarnations, Moskavitchamino, Tatraplan and Tatra 603, ZAZ 968, etc.).
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    Novaload Welcomes the Returning Jezuits ! promoted this comment Edited by Jim-Bob at 08/28/09 11:23 AM Jim-Bob was starred Jim-Bob was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    08/28/09

    @Jim-Bob: Is there some rehab or detox or therapy you could go to for this condition? You've got a Bloc-age.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants

    I did a Trabant image search and found many interesting photos of the Trabant. I had never heard of it before now....always a learning experience here.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Choke on it, Mike's Bike Tours!
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Ah for motoring sake, Padang gets those awesome micro busses, Berlin gets Trabant limos and what do we have here?

    Panther chassis.

    Tell me North America where is our awesome transportation?
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    pauljones promoted this comment PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was starred PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/28/09

    @PowerTrype: Also, in certain parts of North America, like east LA and downtown Detroit, there is a lot of smog and the ever-present potential for bullets to start flying at any time, which makes the fully enclosed Panther platform a more choice ride.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    08/28/09

    @pauljones: We usually roll across Detroit in these. Especially those who live north of 8 mile.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    08/28/09

    @PowerTrype: Boston, Seattle, and a few other places near the water have DUWK/DUCK tours.
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    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    08/28/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: Just shined mine up and now its raining. Its cool though, I have the amphibian assault all lined up to tread the Lodge underpasses.
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    Formerlythegreatestdriver promoted this comment Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was starred Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    08/28/09


    @pauljones: I wana see something like this. Something that infuses North American car culture with the boring and basic transportation that we're forced to deal with.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    08/28/09

    In reply to Tour Berlin In A Technicolor Rainbow Of Trabants
    Hi Matt,
    five of the pictures aren't loading for me...
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    Image of Matt Hardigree Matt Hardigree
    08/28/09

    @dwegmull welcomes all the ghosts: try now.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/28/09

    @Matt Hardigree: Now that's what I call cotomer sevis.
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    08/28/09

    @pauljones: He is just bored of doing nothing.
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    Image of neilgehrke neilgehrke
    08/07/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    Grass, Ass or Gas...
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    Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet promoted this comment neilgehrke was starred neilgehrke was unstarred
    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/07/09

    @neilgehrke: Two out of three ain't bad.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/06/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    Grazin' in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it?
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/06/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    Anyone notice the cafe/seating area behind the car, made out of a bus frame?
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    Image of the good dr zero the good dr zero
    08/06/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Have now.
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    Image of SRekauqh SRekauqh
    08/06/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    More pix of German woman NOW
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    Image of somnambulance somnambulance
    08/06/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    Does anybody remember the grass-covered car on Bill Nye the Science Guy? I've wanted a running crass-covered car ever since then.
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    08/06/09

    @AtomikB: Oh snap, you said Bill Nye! That show was awesome.
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    Image of FlakJack FlakJack
    08/06/09

    @AtomikB: A crass-covered car? You mean like a Hummer H2?
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    Image of GtAkReYz GtAkReYz
    08/06/09

    In reply to Another Way To Recycle Cars
    Seems like a Lada Niva to me. Which makes it calling it an SUV quite an offense.
    Lada Nivas should never, ever be put in the same basket as X1s, Q7s, XC90, and other oddly named "things". Vladimir Putin does not approve.
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    Image of the good dr zero the good dr zero
    08/06/09

    @GtAkReYz: And you wouldn't want to make him angry, lest he rip off his shirt...
    Hang on, he does that anyway. Nevermind.
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