Plus cars of a similar age
Kino International on Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, December 2023
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 December 2023
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Travel with Intent 
Got to love those Trabbis
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probably doesn’t have quite the speed you like from a car, Sue
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Nowhere near – on the Nürnberg to Wurzberg motorway in November 1989, we were on a bit of a hill, and sped past a huge line of Trabbis toiling up in the slow lane! As I was driving, no chance to take what would have been an iconic image…
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That would have been a brilliant image, Sue. But I can tell you enjoyed it nonetheless
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Yep!
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Definitely some vintage cars, Debbie. They remind me of cars in photos people have taken in Cuba, except these are much smaller and less flashy!
janet
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I think the same in strength of memories and the strength go the message they still deliver to us, but pretty much the opposite in the story they tell of politics and economic status
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I like looking at those vintage cars. Here is my entry this week https://wanderingteresa.com/moooo-where-is-the-train-station/
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Transport theme, mine’s an antique boat. https://fakeflamenco.com/2023/12/16/will-chileans-disapprove-their-new-constitution/
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Great image!
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Brrr it looks cold there. Once tried to get into a Trabi, massive fail 🙂 https://alondonmiscellany.wordpress.com/2023/12/16/beanstalks-but-no-sign-of-jack/
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I don’t think I’ll do it again!
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Those trabis are probably more like 40 or 50 years old (but who’s counting?). It’s a great photo. I really battled to find someting with 60 years in it and then I remembered: Something I know for a fact was built 60 years ago (61 to be exact but who’s counting?).
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True, the dream may have started at the same time east the Kino but the arrival was a different matter. I was chatting to someone whose parents waited 15 years. They waited till they had a child and then applied as that bumped them up the queue. And then it still took 15 years. And shortly after that the wall came down and the second hand value of the Trabi plummeted.
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😥
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My daughters first car was a Russian Lada. Much maligned at the time, not a real car. But it manged many thousands of miles with out falter, having already covered many thousands. No luxuries, even when compared to European equivalents, but it was cheap and kept going. I know the cars in your image are not Lada’s …. but the style look very much like them, very much Eastern European and Russian of the era. memories 🙂
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They are “Trabis” (official name was Trabant, cars manufactured in the GDR). Rumour has it that they looked for shelter (like under a bridge) when it started to rain as they would dissolve if they got wet. The rumour is not quite unfounded as it was made out of “duroplast”, a material made of synthetic resin and cotton fibres. They survive because of hardened coats.
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Lada’s were thin steel build….. the only ‘luxury’ was the heater . I was familiar with Trabant and the rain rumour. For the era, and nationalities of manufacture, they did at least offer transport for private citizen’s. Lada also travelled well….. not that many years ago they were still many Lada’s in Egypt battling for road space in Cairo, with Donkeys and Carts , 4×4 Pickups and the Limousines of the wealthy 🙂
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Basically yes to what you say. Except that owning a trabant was a privilege that people had to wait for years and years.
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It was also the same for Russians and Lada
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There was definitely a similar o look to the eastern European cars, but the inventiveness of materials in ether Trabi was impressive – they just didn’t have access to the more common requirements like metal.
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A very similar style indeed. I wouldn’t want to have a Trabi myself but I do enjoy spotting them around Berlin, some much loved
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A clever bit of happenstance.
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For once, this a bit more than happenstance as I arrived in one of the Trabis, but very lucky that stopped here due to lack of parking places earlier on they street.
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Excellent!
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How fortuitous that those cars came by at just the right time. Makes for a great photo 🙂
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This was partly contrived – I arrived in one of the Trabis! 🙂
The tour was a gift from someone who knows how much time I spend walking and photographing this street.
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Now you’ve spoilt the dream photo. The best thing is you do some of the best set-ups that are so natural……and you arrived in style 😀
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The cars do seem to match the age 🙂
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For the public in East Germany, this was the only option and even that required a long wait!
And my photo certainly doesn’t give a Spring feeling!
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