Interesting facts about trabert2 photos

On November 8, 1957, the production in Zwickau of the factory began to produce cars of the new brand, called “Trabant” & raquo; in honor of the space satellite launched in the same year by the Soviet Union (in German "la Trabant" rampant satellite "). & laquo; Trabant & raquo; did not have a fuel pump — fuel flowed into the carburetor drift, and the tank was located directly under the hood, next to the engine, which required exceptional accuracy when refueling and did not contribute to safety as a fire, maybe in the event of an accident. The skeleton of the body & laquo; Trabant & raquo; was ordinary, from steel stampings, but mounted decorative panels were made of the so-called & laquo; Duroplast & raquo; — phenol-formaldehyde resin-based material (phenoplast) filled with cotton production waste (turns), which was done to save steel sheet, which was in short supply in those years. As a result, the car weighed only 620 kg, and, if properly used, was not vulnerable to corrosion.

Trabant cars were produced in East Germany from 1957 to 1991. During this time, more than 3 million cars have been sold. After the unification of East and West Germany in 1989, the production of & quot; trabants & quot; stopped, and the plant acquired the company & quot; Volkswagen & quot ;. In the normal version, the maximum speed of the most popular version of the Trabant P601 with a two-stroke two-cylinder engine with 26 horsepower did not exceed 100 kilometers per hour. & laquo; Trabant & raquo; exported both to socialist countries (mainly Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary), and to a number of capitalist countries — for example, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa and even the UK. It is curious that in the USSR only separate copies of cars of this model got.

In the GDR itself, the demand for & laquo; Trabant & raquo; during the entire model release, it significantly exceeded the number of cars supplied to the retail chain, as a result, they were not available for free sale, and buyers had to wait in line for years, in some cases — up to 13 years old and more. Two brothers from Germany set a world speed record on an improved Trabant car. During the races at Rottenburg Airport, Trabant accelerated to 235 kilometers per hour.