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    East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    Achtung, baby! Indeed, what a great find, Voodoojoo.
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    Image of boognish boognish
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    I swear to god, you guys would cream at all the cool stuff I see in Long Island City / Astoria /Greenpoint. Lots of Europeans, lots of cash, and cool ass cars. Anything from og minis, to brand new Maserati, to bentleys and rollers, and a few 2CV, and other incredibly tiny euro cars that i have no idea. Also Astoria is the home of gullwing motors, packed with some of the juciest cars evah!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/15/08

    @boognish: Pics or it didn't happen!
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    I am around there quite frequently and have never seen the Trabant. There is a Citroën 2CV that parks in that neck of the woods, though.

    Citroën 2CV



    However, the only interesting car I saw around there today was a malaise green 1973 Mercury Montego which I have seen in about half a dozen other places in the city.
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    Image of voodoojoo voodoojoo
    12/15/08

    @Triborough: You wouldn't happen to mean this 2CV, would you? Man is it weird that I took photos of the same car that Triborough did. When I took the pictures of the Trabi, the 2CV was just across the street. It was odd.




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    Image of voodoojoo voodoojoo
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    I never thought the day would come, but it finally has! And though it feels great to see my pictures up on this, the little corner of the internet which helped to get me so hooked on cars, I think that the whole process of taking pictures of cars has had a far deeper effect on me. What started out as a geeky dream of showing up on Down on the Street turned quickly into a means of grounding myself. When I came back from school in New York City to my Central California home, going through every piece of my town street by street finally gave me a feeling of a hometown, of some kind of attachment to the very streets that I grew up on. The picture albums I have tell the story of that sweet, hot, hazy summer of 2008 and now that I'm back in New York, I've continued the process here, growing more settled into the neighborhoods and streets I've come to live in. I've gone over my past block by block and now I'm fixing myself to the present, all by going out day after day with an obsolete digital camera sticking out of my pocket, ready to weather the strange looks and puzzled complexions of the New Yorkers walking by watching some college student lying stomach down on the street to try to get a low angle shot. Great as the cars are, it's the background that makes them so great for me, and in framing the cars with their surroundings, I end up framing myself in as well.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/15/08

    @voodoojoo: Maybe he's using a Lomo camera?
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    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    That thing is pretty cool. I would probably add a hot rodded snowmobile engine for the ultimate in two stroke motoring.


    I also learned something on Wikipedia today. Apparently, the DDR was going to have the internet suffix ".dd" but they never used it.

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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    Put it in H!
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    Image of jedchev jedchev
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    From Wikipedia


    "Duroplast is a composite thermosetting plastic, a close relative of formica and bakelite. It is a resin plastic reinforced with fibers (either cotton or wool) making it a fiber-reinforced plastic similar to glass-reinforced plastic.


    Duroplast cannot be further recycled, and burning it produces toxic fumes, so disposing of the bodies of old Trabants is a problem. However, Duroplast's components are edible, and there are stories of pigs, sheep or other domestic farm animals consuming duroplast."

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    12/15/08

    @jedchev: "This is my body, take and eat, in remembrance of me."
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    12/15/08

    @Tanshanomi: COTD!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    The tiny "deLuxe" on the side is very cute.

    What's not to love about this unassuming little beast? It's certainly going the distance!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    The "DDR" sticker is possibly the best part.
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    Image of TurboWeasel TurboWeasel
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    34 MPG and it's made out of Wool and Cotton. And Prius owners think they are green. This thing has been green since 1960!


    No doubt it also used to drive to and from school in the blinding heat and snow up hill both ways. At least it felt like that.

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    12/15/08

    @TurboWeasel: Green? Try blue, as in the smoke. Plus, the body won't biodegrade, and if you try to incinerate it, it gives off some horrible cocktail of noxious vaporous pollutants. I can't provide a solid reference, but they supposedly had to pass a law in Germany after reunification that made it a crime to abandon a Trabbie.
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    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    The owner's a dance-dance-revolution fan?
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/15/08

    @boosted-lego-wagon: Or possibly he just loves PC RAM.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    12/15/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares:

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    12/15/08

    @boosted-lego-wagon: My dad once asked me why there was an East German game in the arcade.


    Learn the difference, kids:



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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    I considered sending a DOSTSBE of a Parisian Trabant a while back; I'm glad I didn't as this is so much cooler!
    Hail the green Asbestos-Queen!
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/15/08

    In reply to East German Pride Is Alive And Flourishing On The Streets Of New York City!
    Wow! Not a spot of rust her.


    You wouldn't believe how many people would make such a comment about my Corvette when I had it.

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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    12/15/08

    @smalleyxb122: It's the main advantage of plastic cars, they don't rust that much. ;)
    If you look underneath however, it might be abother story.
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    12/15/08

    @franzouse: "another story", although "abother story" isn't completely wrong.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    12/15/08

    @smalleyxb122: I think the Trabants were more some odd combination of paper maeche, wood chips, and bondo from the factory, not even plastic/fiberglass. Hemmings Sports and Exotic had an article a while back on a guy that actually restored one in the US.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/15/08

    @P161911: So is it true that you CAN actually eat the polymer bodywork if stuck in a month-long Siberian blizzard whiteout?
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