In the summer of 2011, I was having a breakfast with my English friends at a posh restaurant on the bank of the Danube, and we started an argument about cars. That wasn't surprising, since after finishing our coffees, we were about to go on short road trip to Etyek, a wine region not far from Budapest. Two cars were …
8x8 Tatra is worth Czech-ing out
Purchasing this eight wheel drive Tatra "Heavy Prime Mover" is almost guaranteed to draw groans on par with the worst puns from at least someone in your life. If you aren't concerned with the effect this Tatra will have on your personal relationships, wallet or property value and want to enter long term project car hell …
Schnell! Trabant 601 Coming Through, Comrades!
Given that East German Trabant shoppers probably had to sit on a 10-year waiting list to buy one of the plastic two-strokers, it doesn't seem sensible to advertise the thing.
Triumphant Win-A-Wartburg Essayist Promises To Install Studebaker Six, …
Remember the Win-A-Wartburg contest
Win A '58 Wartburg, Race It For Free At The 24 Hours Of LeMons!
How would you like to get your very own Warsaw Pact-built, proletariat-grade machine, equipped with a 3-cylinder/2-stroke engine with just seven moving parts… for free?
East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York…
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot
Weed-Whacker In a Cardboard Box: NPR Drives The Trabant
You know those people whose Volvos have every single radio preset set to National Public Radio? So if you happen to be riding with them (at 4 MPH below the speed limit) you'll know in no uncertain terms that they never listen to anything, you know, unenlightened? Well, maybe this little story about aficionados of East …
Return of the Melkus: the RS2000
A year ago to the month, we first learned of plans to build a new version of the Melkus
Forget the VW Transporter: Hippie Barkas!
After helping us do an All-Czech Project Car Hell
Ich Bin Ein Wartburg: History Of The Eisenach Wonder
We're quick to make fun of the Wartburg, but in fact the plastic-bodied two-stroke emblem of Warsaw Pact automotive misery was the descendant of an interesting lineage stretching back to the 1890s. The tale of the Wartburg starts with the mighty car-building prowess of Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach AG, then twists and turns…
