These cars always look like mini taxi's to me. I love the recycle idea - wish everyone would recycle more and throw out less in the landfills, etc. Good capture Doug.

Lovely capture of a old style car and it looks like it would not take much work to get it looking new again,Nice detail in this photo and very good angle you capture this scene from too.I have heard of this type of car but it a firsts for me to see in the rare .

I think the Trabant was designed to be an economy car back then, but ended up being not fuel efficient. From what I read the car had speed though & for some in the U.S. it's a collectors item. Magnificent capture, Doug ... the car looks to be in fairly good condition. I like the detail.

Excellent shot of this old car Doug well done.

It looks like Lada from Russia, Nice capture of this old car.

Is that from the 60's? I have probably seen them in movies. Stick some mag wheels on it and it would be hot to trot! lol. Nice picture, Doug.

I read where the life span of producing the Trabant was about 30 years Gibbs. I also read that the 1975 model was #27 in the 50 worse cars of all time. They said it smoked like an Iraqi oil fire. :)
Your shot is good nonetheless.

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Doug, as far as I know, the Trabant has a two-stroke engine and in my country it's not allowed to ride any longer on the road with it because of air pollution. It's only a collectors item now for car-lovers.
Good capture my friend.

I'm not familiar with this old ride, but it does have the look of a taxi, neat find Doug, and well taken. =^..^=tigs♥

SEFA

A good find Doug and I like the architecture around it. I really like the pavement it sits on. Now if they had restored this to mint condition that would be awesome. You gave an interesting narrative about it.

Trabbi was for some time an object of extreme desire in POland!
Have not seen any for years here.
Hugs & kisses from
SAM & SAAB

There are few left as souvenirs in Germany now. The others had to be scrapped as they did not meet the standards required in "New" Germany.

I can certainly remember those!...We used to call them Mini Tanks!...

if another car had an accident with one of these...the other cr always came off worse!

Excellent find

Doug - Where is the cloud of exhaust smoke that always followed them? ;-) A good find and capture. Thad

"Trabant" and "Zaporozhets" were cars of socialism. In the years of socialism in Bulgaria usually buy these cars, but for others who in those times were considered "luxury" is waiting for years... and people often pay bribes to be able to buy them. Other cars "luxury" cars of those times were Russian "Zhigula", "Lada", "Volga" (this car was super luxurious and just bought the red elite) and also the Czechoslovak "Skoda". Polish Fiat also declined to inaccessible luxury cars. My father managed to buy his "Peugeot" until the late 80s.
The first two cars of my family we bought them when I and my ex-husband we were in Vietnam in the late 80s and early 90s. They were then the latest models of "Toyota Corolla". "Toyota Corolla" was the most suitable for heavy climatic conditions of Vietnam. After we finally returned to Bulgaria, we bought "Opel Ascona"...

interesting narrative Doug, i love the background color & texture, makes the car really stand out.

we call these pocket size cars here..nobody can parallel park in this parts. we just pull up and push it into place.

In the 60s and early 70s the governments of Russia, Bulgaria, and guess and the other socialist countries, for formal occasions used cars brand "Chaika" ("Seagull"). These cars are like the modern limousines. When the time comes to replace them with other models, a friend of my father bought one of them... I was amazed at the luxury of these cars. They were incredibly beautiful and gorgeous.