I ordered one 11 years before reunification. Still waiting for it.

@Skyline25

5 жыл бұрын

Is this a joke or actually real?

@dts5791

5 жыл бұрын

- Skyline - i can imagine this is real

@bubisbublek6864

5 жыл бұрын

@@Skyline25 In the eastern bloc you had to wait for years after the order. Back then it was a big deal to sell used cars because they gave more money for them because they didn't had to wait years for the cars this way.

@nichderjeniche

5 жыл бұрын

@@Skyline25 Real, in east Germany you had to wait like 10-15 years after your order for your new Trabant, this was normal. Because export to other east block countries like Hungary had priority. My parents been lucky they could find a used one and didn't had to wait. 👌

@janosvarga962

4 жыл бұрын

Depreciation was inexistent. You rolled out on the gate and your car worth 5x times of it price you paid.

“And up into 4th.” “And up into 4th.” “And up into 4th.”

@Fuzy2K

3 жыл бұрын

And reverse... And reverse... *clunk* There we go!

@RandyLent

3 жыл бұрын

cha cha real smooth.

@varsam

Жыл бұрын

He is gentle ... and this is trabant, it needs some violence for a nice releationship.

@oof_tvyt

9 ай бұрын

@@varsamJust like every relationship should! (jk)

@loliboly9100

3 ай бұрын

did you mean 10 print "And up into 4th" 20 goto 10

“What country is this from?” “It no longer exists.”

@emmanuelvakakis1374

3 жыл бұрын

Simpsons

@hansgoober35

3 жыл бұрын

Put it in H!

@roya.cathcartjr.5042

3 жыл бұрын

@Boogaloo Howie it was produced behind the "Iron Curtain" in Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Essentially a Communist Government inexpensively manufactured automobile and like the owner of it in the video stated that seatbelts were laughable as the car had as much accident safety quality as if it were made of cotton cloth or tin foil. A step up in the automobile from the Trabant was the Lada and the Yugo.

@henryseidel5469

3 жыл бұрын

@@roya.cathcartjr.5042 Yet the real reason of constructing the Trabant this way was the embargo of steel products against East Germany. That is why they used Russian cotton to make a car body from.

@roya.cathcartjr.5042

3 жыл бұрын

@@henryseidel5469 using those materials I'm sure kept the Trabant from being Rust Buckets like steel vehicles. Here in the State of Pennsylvania in the United States our highway department is generous with spreading salt on the roads during the winter months. You are lucky if your vehicle hasn't disintegrated into flakes of rust within 10 years.

Car: East German License plate: Hungarian Driver: American Hotel? Trivago.

@Sachsenfuchs

3 жыл бұрын

Witzig!

@theredengineer2820

3 жыл бұрын

Penis haircut

@JustA.Person

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sachsenfuchs Er ist aber kein Deutscher

@waschte123

3 жыл бұрын

@@JustA.Person macht nix

@baji.5900

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel ! Hi also from Hungary

The longest car in the World! - 3 meters car and 30 meters of smoke

@lucfxgambitgaming7494

5 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@macko006

4 жыл бұрын

no its a wartburg and one balkan band have song about it and in it say 4m sheet metal and 5m smoke....ofc its 2 stroke engine,people pour alot of stuff in it and it use to go just had bigger smoke lol much better car then trabant :)

@marko43zla23

4 жыл бұрын

Wartburg bre

@darkomiceski3755

4 жыл бұрын

wartburg limuzina kzread.info/dash/bejne/oqp7mdiiY8Wsc7w.html

@Nooziterp1

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

In Germany we say: "If you can drive a Trabant you can drive everything."

@aidanhunter3687

4 жыл бұрын

Sehr lustig 😂

@lenmediastudio

4 жыл бұрын

What about a Mercedes-Benz CapaCity L? 🤔

@nagymarton7674

3 жыл бұрын

And we say that also in Hungary.

@phorzer32

3 жыл бұрын

Trabant ist recht easy zu fahren. Da hab ich schon schlimmeres gefahren.

@peterruin9133

3 жыл бұрын

Sagt niemand

Z means zu (closed), A means auf (open) and R obviously means Reserve, which is the same in German and English. Our Trabant actually had a little device nicknamed "Mäusekino" (mice cinema), which was an engine rpm indicator with little green, yellow and red lamps.

Robert: This is a fairly rare car in the United States, so I want to save it as much as possible Also Robert: takes it auto crossing rally style

I'm a simple eastern European. I see a Trabant I press like.

@captlarry-3525

5 жыл бұрын

why not !

@paddylove8363

5 жыл бұрын

same here bro

@MMKaresz_az_eredeti

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. Did you see the registration plate is Hungarian? :D

@bibbylil5153

5 жыл бұрын

@@MMKaresz_az_eredeti kajak dekomoly 😂😂

@guardraillover5044

4 жыл бұрын

1.1k likes. thank me -later- never

My father bought a Trabant 601 in 1966, and I learned to drive it while I was a teenager. In 1981 I managed to buy my own Trabant 601S. Even now I regret that I had to sell it in 2001. I had not to take my hands from the driving wheel when changing gears; it was enough to stretch the fingers of the right hand, and to move the “door handle”, how my friends named it in derision. Only the reverse gear needed a strong push forwards and then downwards, which requested my hand to leave the driving wheel. For me it was a wonderful car, it worked summer and winter, day or night. Even when my battery was almost dead, I could start it by pushing the car alone, without any help: opened the driver’s window, choose the 1st gear, turned the ignition key, stepped out of the car, pushed with the shoulder against the doorframe, while holding the right hand on the gear lever. When, after pushing 2-3 steps, the engine started, I moved the level into the neutral position, than I opened the door and could sit on my seat and drive away. Nostalgic memories…

@gui18bif

5 жыл бұрын

Memories we don't get with new cars.

@vince_nevermind1159

5 жыл бұрын

@@gui18bif that's why I like having a car older than me ^^ not a verry old car ( 1994 peugeot 106) but before every part of a car was electric car had character , on month ago I had my first problem due to a very cold winter , I had to go to my "university" ( technical university institute to be precise) for an exam on saturday morning , I get rid of the frost on the windshield than discovered my door was frozen , the key won't opened it , I entered the car by the passenger seat , go join the friend I was driving to the exam and ask him to help me with the windshield , we drove to the exam and he had to help me geting out of the car because the lock won't let me ^^ it was a hard time , but it was fun and a great story and I'm happy that I have those memory for later

@AmstradExin

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think I ever saw a car again that you could manually start so fast. When I was a kid...i mean around 7-8...I was able to start the car with a little help from my dad sitting in it. The car is so light, it literally rolls away standing if you don't use the handbrake.

@Handyman1199

5 жыл бұрын

i just bought a ´89 Trabant 601L back in November ´18 and currently fixing it up. It was in the Garage of the preowner for 10 years, but i´ll soon get it registrered here in West-Germany.

@route6295

5 жыл бұрын

My ...is built 1965. I'm the second owner. Yeah...still running!

I was a US Expat living in Fót, Hungary from 2003-2005. My 6'6" self drove a Trabant every day a few kilometers from the house I was staying in to the bus stop to catch the bus to Budapest for work (how I fit, I'll never know). There are times I miss that car and all of its delightful quirks. It was amazing at times that the thing even ran. It's incredible that you have one in the US. Awesome stuff!

@justjaguar2314

Жыл бұрын

These old cars are a space mystery. They look tiny, and are too, but somehow, you can fit everything in them. They're absolutely magical.

@aqema

Жыл бұрын

@@justjaguar2314 maybe because the paper thin walls don't take away from the inside space, they take away from your life expectancy.

A man who chooses to drive, let alone own and maintain, a trabby deserves a hug and a 6 month voucher for counseling services. Love your channel.

@DanteTorn

Ай бұрын

That's the beauty of this channel.

How do you double the value of a trabant? Fill the gas tank.

@damnedlegionaire

4 жыл бұрын

How do you triple the value? Buy a fuel cap.

@asd3841

4 жыл бұрын

My farger once bought one. The gas tank was full, and the gas was worth more than the entire car. Early 2000's in Hungary. That one comes from here as well. :D

@ionavram4002

3 жыл бұрын

@@damnedlegionaire u can quadruple it buy buying a spare tire

@MrAranton

3 жыл бұрын

@@ionavram4002 Or putting a pair of sneakers in the trunk. Btw. That's also how you turn a Trabant into a sports car.

@harrisonsmetana2506

3 жыл бұрын

If these are this cheap we need some of these in the states

When I lived in Berlin in the early 90's "Trabies" were the favorite cheap first car for engineering students, and because of the (non-rusting) plastic bodies, you could easily make body modifications and spray paint them with graffiti for art. Lots of them were restored to "better then new" with machine shop parts. The Berlin government made a grandfather clause to exempt Trabants from environmental regulations as historical vehicles, and there are still a lot of Berliners who keep them as a hobby and join together for road trips on weekends. I think I may have lost my virginity in one, but maybe was too drunk to remember.

@cherrypepsi2815

2 жыл бұрын

This entire comment was really wholesome until the last sentence

@aris95

2 жыл бұрын

Is it allowed to drive Trabant nowadays because of extreme pollution?

@mhplayer

2 жыл бұрын

@@aris95 tanks can be driven as long as it's for historical events or things like that, i guess if you don't make it a daily and keep it in the best shape possible with regular restorations you might be able to do so :³

@liontron8317

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we will now always remember the Trabant as that one dudes sex car

@AgentTasmania

2 жыл бұрын

A little skill and a dollop of enthusiasm, a swap to a better and cleaner engine wouldn't be difficult

Brilliant video :-) I was camping many years ago and was awoken at 7am by the sound of 2 stroke engines, I stuck my head out of the tent, expecting some old 80's motorbikes but no, 5 of these things had arrived, driven all the way from East Germany, what really impressed me the most was I was camping at Loch Ness, in Scotland!

Every German Trabant-Buyer would be shocked by watching you driving! ;) The engine of a Trabi is designed for very high tournaments and only if you force them, you are able to drive the Trabi quick and most efficient. Only by hearing the typical yowling of the engine, you can feel the Trabi is working well (which means 30 km/h in gear 1, 50 km/h in gear 2 and 70 km/h in gear 3).

@LMvdB02

Жыл бұрын

You mean rounds per minute not tournaments hahaha.

@henryseidel5469

10 ай бұрын

@@LMvdB02 That's RpM ! (rotations)

@jan-pieter4538

9 ай бұрын

No, rpm stands for revolutions per minute. As in a rotating revolver cylinder and “revving-up” an engine.

@jan-pieter4538

9 ай бұрын

Addition: In the context of the performance of a machine gun: yes, rounds (bullets) per minute.

@henryseidel5469

9 ай бұрын

@@jan-pieter4538 Indeed the English term is 'revolutions', but a foreign speaker tends to avoid this word - in order not to mix it up with the history of the Soviet Union.

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.

@FuzzBass66

4 жыл бұрын

"Poot it in H!!!"

@JMG_86

4 жыл бұрын

_"The country where this car was made doesn't exist anymore"_

@roflstomps324

3 жыл бұрын

@@FuzzBass66 HAHA. I can see that scene in my head... losing it.

@fiftyracer192

3 жыл бұрын

Take it for a drive and you'll agree, Zagreb minik zloty diev!

@leiladekwatro3147

3 жыл бұрын

@@JMG_86 and you'll agree

"What country is this from?" "It no longer exists."

@marcoeisenkratzer7815

6 жыл бұрын

East Germany or "German Democratic Republic" (GDR), in german "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" (DDR)

@bullmannn

6 жыл бұрын

Pocket Fluff Productions put it in H!"

@billhill7330

6 жыл бұрын

Patrick Grainger Blyat!!! You beat me to it!!!!

@brettknoss486

6 жыл бұрын

It will do 40 hectares on single tank of kerosene.

@balazsszabo9137

6 жыл бұрын

Hungary "H"

My maternal grandfather had a Trabant when I was very young... he tuned it up to a beast, says my family. He then got a Wartburg, which he also slightly modded. He was a guy who did what he wanted when others did what they could. Always tinkering with something, always learning more about different gadgets. He even put some of that spirit in me. Sadly he didn't have many more years with us. Sometimes I wonder how he would have felt about living through the digital revolution for example... would he have liked the more modern cars etc... he would be 105 now though and likely never driven a 2000's car.

@raven4k998

9 ай бұрын

How to Drive a Trabant simple just floor the hell out of it like crazy and you'll be fine🤣🤣🤣

I am from Hungary and my father used to have a Trabant when I was a child. The sound of the engine brings back memories, thanks for the video!

R Stands for Reserve Z Stands for Zu (Closed) A Stands for Auf (Opened) Great Video! Greetings From Germany.

@YouBazinga

6 жыл бұрын

In Balkans it's: R - Rezerva (no need to translate) Z - Zatvoreno ("Closed") A - Ajmo ("Lets go") :) An amazingly durable car despite its questionable quality and constant mockery, since it first came out. I still see them driving around :)

@YouBazinga

6 жыл бұрын

A few nicknames for the car: - trabi - pekperepek (the sound of the Trabant engine) - plastik fantastik - smrdljivac (stinky)

@johnnyhun1

6 жыл бұрын

doesnt R for Rückwarts ?

@Blablubam

6 жыл бұрын

+johnnyhun1 no. He said its the reserve. not reverse. It wouldnt make a lot of sense.

@tonitreiber

6 жыл бұрын

NOPE! it meany RALLYE!! :)

Your Trabant has a heater?! Decadent Luxury! Standard Trabants were issued without one.

@grahamlive

4 жыл бұрын

Heaters are for capitalist pigs!

@EdPMur

4 жыл бұрын

Also, you don't listen to the radio. The radio listens to you (if it has one)

@thetrabantguy3934

4 жыл бұрын

In the deluxe version it had a rpm gauge and a fuel gauge with a radio installed and a heater

@metro6028

4 жыл бұрын

@Nihil Patel to frigging funny caught me by surprise!

@thefreedomguyuk

3 жыл бұрын

It's the high spec version they sold as Trabant Limousine.

I lived and worked in East Germany for a year and lots of enthusiasts there lovingly keep their Trabants alive. One day I was idling at a red light and suddenly there was a horrible rattling noise. I was worried it was my engine, but then I noticed there was a wheezing Trabant behind me.

We had Trabant and we did a pretty long trips with it. I live in Czech republic and we went to Slovakia, Germany, etc... My father loved that car and I really never understood why. Today I'm starting to get it. Nice video. I'm glad it still runs even in the US.

@henryseidel5469

10 ай бұрын

Went from East Germany even to Poland, Hungary and Romania in the Trabant. The maximum speed was about 110 kmh. On a motorway it was a nuisance, but on ordinary roads it was not a problem keeping pace with the ordinary traffic flow.

My grandpa had the kombi version ( station wagon ). I remember him and I driving from Budapest to lake Balaton and picking up two hot hitchhiking East German girls. Along the way I tried my limited German and they tried their limited Hungarian. At one point the focus of the conversation became the car. I told them we called it 'Paper Jaguar'. They understood why and we had a good laugh. That car never broke down and it was cheap to run. It was great for fishing trips and giving rides to beautiful East German girls. We dropped them off at one of the camping sites at the lake. I got a kiss from the blond girl right on the cheeks. I felt like a man. I was only 11.

@sbrunner1234

3 жыл бұрын

It was called Rennpappe in Germany, which means racing-cardboard (box) ...

@davidjones332

3 жыл бұрын

@@sbrunner1234 I remember driving in Germany just after the Hungarians relaxed their border controls with the fall of communism. The autobahnen were full of Hungarian Trabants off to see the wonders of the free world, and all trailing long plumes of blue smoke!

@CsImre

Жыл бұрын

@@davidjones332 Those were likely East Germans.

@justjaguar2314

Жыл бұрын

The wildly underrated, old cardboard cars. Good ol' Trabants.

@tomsmodeltime6662

Жыл бұрын

I once drove a Trabant myself, it was great fun and felt like driving a MiG-15 fighter. Incredibly noisy and smelly, so at 60 km/h it was like driving at 250. Super cool, but not somthing you would rely on.

The hardest part of driving a Trabant in the DDR was to get one in the first place.

@klausadrift7568

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, a 15 years waiting list and the price continued increasing throughout the years. If you didn't have the right amount of cash at the end of your waiting time, then you lost your bid. You had to wait another 15 years then. And there are people who are still thinking back with nostalgie about the "good old days".

@donaldduck4489

Жыл бұрын

@@klausadrift7568 it was a mix of 18, 15, 9, and if you were lucky 2 or 3

@alex52741

Жыл бұрын

zumindest als Neuwagen und gebraucht überteuert

@renegade25_banhammertech_40

Жыл бұрын

@@klausadrift7568 literally nobody ever waited more than 2 years for one of them

@klausadrift7568

Жыл бұрын

@@renegade25_banhammertech_40 Many thanks indeed, I take your good word for it. I visited East Berlin in 1969 and was explained by some locals about how the system works and of course the long waiting list.

The SAAB is a treat I gotta say. Worked building SAAB in the 80's but the 96 V4 is the coolest of them all.

My dad let me drive one when I was a kid, living in east Berlin. It’s nice to see that they are still some of those cars around. I enjoyed your video.

This really makes me want a trabant

@caromac_

3 жыл бұрын

Get in line.

@tonywagner1626

3 жыл бұрын

Order today and get it by 2035!

@phorzer32

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Speed Comparer. Ich hab einen, kannst ihn dir ja mal für ein Video leihen^^

@gotthatswag4502

3 жыл бұрын

The car is just plastic trust me my grandma drives her 50 year old to this day and its a mess

@phorzer32

3 жыл бұрын

mess? No, its just a car. I have one and can drive it like any other car.

The smell when you start the trabant when it's cold. As a 80's kid from thuringia in east germany a trabant smells like childhood. :D

@peytonpanos7026

5 жыл бұрын

Is that even a real country? Edit: nvm its probably a town name

@dejan.b17

5 жыл бұрын

@@peytonpanos7026 No it is not a town name, it is the name of one of 16 German states. Thuringia is located between the state of Bavaria and Saxony

@peytonpanos7026

5 жыл бұрын

@@dejan.b17 thank you.

@teutonalex

5 жыл бұрын

Stimmt.

@toniadvanced7726

5 жыл бұрын

2 Takt Geruch ist einfach geil und für ostler lebensnotwendig

My Mother drove our Trabi with owner 100kmh , suddenly one of the piston rings decided to break and made deep grooves into the cylinder . We came home with only one cylinder in the freezing winter time , no power , no heating , that was an adventure ! :)

Very special to see a Trabant (from Hungary) driving around in the US. I can imagine they are very rare. If you are in need of spare parts please get in touch. I have a Wartburg 1.3 (1991) One of the last build before the closed factory. Enjoy the Trabant. Greetings from Hungary.

I've always aid a Yugo was a huge step up from this car and a bus pass was a huge step up from both of them.

@aris95

2 жыл бұрын

I remember trabi was almost the same pre-war third reich DKW technology. Yugo was designed 40 years later.

@joanatadeusz5352

8 ай бұрын

The Yugos were made on the basis of Fiat. Mechanically, everything was from Fiat. Only the bodywork of the Yugo 45/55 was designed in Serbia. The same story for the later Yugo Sana, based on the Fiat Tipo. @@aris95

You forgot the most important feature of the Trabant - character. Also if you are a young single bloke and a Trabant is your daily driver and you meet a girl who still wants to marry you. You know you have a keeper.

@Bemoderso

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Dacey she must be really desperate

@KainRazielMT

6 жыл бұрын

We're talking about the car, not you Ben.

@jamesrobinson9194

6 жыл бұрын

Pushing it will save on gym fees 😂😂 and you'll appreciate buses and trains more

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, girls think it's cute and it does get you lots of attention. Almost as effective as a puppy haha.

@antigen4

5 жыл бұрын

yes so true - such things can be a 'quality woman magnet' !

I love how you acknowledge the cars you feature are often terrible and shouldn't have been made in the first place but should also be looked after and preserved. I like the "This is crap, I don't know why it was made but it was and so we should ensure it's looked after as there's not many around" attitude.

This stick shift is the best anti-theft device I have seen so far. would be interesting to see hidden camera footage someone trying to drive away with that and then give up after 3 hours of trying :D

A true car aficionado...no music, no talking and no anything else. Just car. Bonus points for you sir.

@matvei8829

Жыл бұрын

yeah, that's called driving

The fact that you have that red sticker on the rear, saying: "When I grow up, I'll become a Mercedes! ^_^" ... I found that to be so cute lol :D

Hi, I am from germany and the "Trabant 601 s deluxe" was my first car in 1996/97. It was a great car and a nighmare. I could repair and maintane everything all by my self, no electronics just bare mechanical Problems and there where not much. For the downside: it was loud, I melted in the heat of the summer (no ac) and was freezing in the winter because the heater was a joke. It uses the heat of the engine to heat up the air that comes into the cabin - it does not work well. But great memories and a great east-german car.

Have you ever checked whether this was a Trabant sport? In the sport version there were 2 pairs of trainers in the trunk! 😂🤣😅 But you have to admit one thing to the Trabi ... the thing was indestructible...and always ready for action in wind and weather. In East Germany, the Trabi was something like the Model T for the USA.

As a Hungarian I love you kept the Hungarian number plate 😁

@gabortamas7493

4 жыл бұрын

Helyesen ugy hívják : license plate.

@domtron8873

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Germany and these were the subject of many funny jokes from my parents. So this car is a bit of nostalgia for me

@datsun100a3

3 жыл бұрын

Istvan Farkas some friendly Hungarian people made a nice game called “The Long Drive” you should check it out

@IstvanF

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabortamas7493 Köszi, anglia északi részen number plate-nek hívják 🤓

@IstvanF

3 жыл бұрын

@@datsun100a3 Thanks I'll have a look

Lmao imagine you are driving and someone overtakes you in this thing.

@perun3706

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine when he overtakes other cars. Those drivers must be boiling to see a cheap communist car shaming their "big tiger".

@zsszeli

5 жыл бұрын

Lazo Vodolazo stock Trabies won’t overtake you in normal conditions (if you both keep speed limit and stuff). These don’t really have power in any ways. 2 strokes hardly get to 100 kph, believe me.

@nichderjeniche

5 жыл бұрын

@@zsszeli 130kmh is possible with luck. source: my own eyes.

@mr.appalachia9787

4 жыл бұрын

*Trabant suddenly transforms into T-72B*

@JamieBainbridge

4 жыл бұрын

You have to imagine it because it will never actually happen.

I was watching Amazing Race and they had to drive a Trabant, a search of KZread brought me to your video. We met at Stone Mountain in 2016 I have the 1967 MC the same color as yours. I love your videos!

the cameras pov on ur silent drive is rlly good. Being so far back in the car looks great!

As an experienced Trabant owner for years I must tell you this: There is no need to have the engine idle so much and therefore no need to constantly shift forth and back between 3rd and 4th gear. My engine worked perfectly fine for over 23 years!!! in every condition of the year, the lubrication works well in 1st to 3rd gear if the car pushes the engine downhill, it will not seize at all! Its bult so, that there is always enough oil, also consider the power rating and cooling if it is pushed, it cant overheat, the fan is still running via the belt, no need to be supercareful. Rather get new bearings for the crankshaft, it does not sound good anymore... after changing the crankshaftbearings the engine is fine for the next years coming. Enjoy!! :-) P.S.: Mix fuel to oil you should go more to 33:1 in winter, in summer I used always 50:1 ...so 33:1 is ALWAYS good, but leaves a bit more smoke behind...

@danmackintosh6325

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I would worry more about wearing out the gearbox/linkages/clutch etc with the constant shifting than I'd worry about engine wear. You stand a better chance of being able to get engine parts in the US than drivetrain parts (heck I think you'd only need to find appropriate pistons/rings, the barrels could even be sleeved when too far gone to bore out & bearings/seals ought not to be an issue at all). Love the sound of the gear whine and 2T buzz, like a 4 wheeled version of my MZ TS250 :)

@texbankuk

5 жыл бұрын

@@danmackintosh6325 Nobody has mentioned the Wartburg Knight Which l drove like a 2T motorcycle Hell to anyone following (Smoke) It Had 3 cylinders classics.honestjohn.co.uk/reviews/wartburg/353knight/ I liked it And has anyone driven the older Czech Skodas? Other quirky cars on my list in No Order The Japanese Kei Cars ,The Euro Quad cars and vans with the Kubota Engines and belt drive (CVT ) transmission (Lot of models The French? Axiam Megavan is seen sometimes around the UK in Streetmarkets or short local delivery runs www.autotrader.co.uk/vans/used-vans/AIXAM/MEGA www.aixam.com/en/ Another Classic was the Dutch Daf with A Renault power plant & CVT Dafs only Car!. Daf =Daffodil (Built in the Netherlands) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAF_66 More? How about the UK Bond Cars of the 60's Which were propelled By British Motorcycle engines and you had sometimes climb into the Engine compartment to Kick start the engine! BTW Reliability was bad Lighting 6 volt Joe Lucas !!! 🤔 Reliant 3 wheelers and the 4 wheel Kitten/Rebels. Not forgetting the Bond Bug(with the Leicester cheese wedge body) Another Manual gear shift type Does any one have experience of the Renault 4 Push pull dashboard Gear shift? Became 2nd Nature after taking a few corners albeit slow. PS The Pudding stirrer shift on the MK1 Minis which were really fun to drive. Started by the Solenoid button between the front seats farm6.staticflickr.com/5825/21093740794_722220155f_b.jpg all British cars Had a Crash 1st gear till the Mid 70's and the Syncro would break often on 2nd sometimes 3rd Leaving you to Change down Carefully ....Motor cycles NEVER have syncro change but never encountered a Bad change in Many years riding Bar an early Test ride whose bike had stripped the 2nd gear cog PPS Have encountered Some big differences on Parking brake lever layouts RE the Handbrake sited on the side next to the drivers door and the Shooting brake on the Dashboard on Bench seat Models (with Column gear change)

@XH1927

5 жыл бұрын

Motorcycles don't need syncros, they're almost universally constant mesh. There may be exceptions far enough back in history or on any odd Eastern European cycles of which I'm not aware. Be interested in knowing about them if there are!

You don´t drive Trabant, Traband drives you (insane).

Interesting. Old guy here and I remember driving cars with column shift, I didn't find it difficult. However, I can imagine very difficult if learned that in one car like your Saab, then jump into a Trabant and it's the opposite! No gas gauge, reminds me of early VWs with no gas gauge. I find it fascinating you manage to get a Trabbie and license it for the roads. I imagine many people turn their heads in puzzlement "why does that car sound like a leaf blower?" I've heard the story "too bad they didn't design it with dual exhaust, it'd make a fine wheelbarrow."

@ValleyOakPaper

7 ай бұрын

It's probably registered as a vintage car.

I gotta love that there is a can of starter fluid, a wrench, and a roll of tape sitting ready in the dash tray, as absolutely essential accessories for driving this thing

And up into 4th... And up into 4th... And up into 4th... Made me laugh harder than it should

@dubl33_27

6 жыл бұрын

ikr

@1988Demien

6 жыл бұрын

All those old shifters are like that you put it into gear or you don't or it just skips.

@ElevatingEurope

6 жыл бұрын

“And off the gas at 70 mph... 70 km/h, ‘scuse me.”

@adamhanby8220

5 жыл бұрын

1:28 And reverse is all the way forward, and down... And down... And down- there we go. That's reverse. I wish I had one.

6:48 *a wild tricycle appears"

Ah, yes. Leave us with the 'peaceful' ending that is a Trabant wheezing down the road, while many parts are rattling, clucking, and the engine groans down the road. And all while melting a small icecap. How peaceful.

My neighbor still drives this thing. Some 20 years ago he put a Goldoni 14hp diesel engine in it and it still works somehow. Top speed 60km/h, fuel consumption something like 1,5l/100km. Best part is, Goldoni engine fits the transmission without any modifications

No longass intros and straight to a topic. My man.

I saw one on the road a few months ago. I was like, “Holy Shit, a Trabant.” My friends were like, “what’s a Trabant?” East Germany’s best automobile. The Pride of Communism. They all watched the video of the manufacturing process. And laughed at the poor comrade trying to bend the metal door and Goodson it would shut.

@Sachsenfuchs

4 жыл бұрын

From which Country came you? :-) I'am from GDR! :D

@maikwei8402

3 жыл бұрын

Lada was the prestige car

@ionavram4002

3 жыл бұрын

metal door? komerade i thing u mean cardboard and cotton

@TheLtVoss

3 жыл бұрын

@@ionavram4002 he referred to the metal frame on that the car bord cotton mix was secured with resin

@RobiBue

3 жыл бұрын

Maik Weiß the Lada Niva? 😅✌️

This is the best car you reviewed and i cant decide if its an insult or a praise.

There is another way to keep the engine from ceasing when you coast, and this is to give the gas-pedal a little jolt once in a while when you go downhill. You could step on the clutch and just rev it, or simply accelerate for fraction of a second. The freewheeling in fourth gear is per design. Many of these small engine cars drive like digital: gas or no gas. My mom had the Western version of the Trabbi a VW Polo that probably did not drive that differently, although it had a four-stroke engine, that one that later made it into the Trabbi in its final years. You do not need a tachometer to change gears. You can easily hear and feel when to switch to keep the engine happy. In these small engines, the torque band is so narrow, specifically with these two-strokes, that "feeling" it is is much easier than setting it into to any given RPM range. Given the roads in those days, you rarely would have driven it much above 30 MPH anyway. The 50-65 MPH it made was adequate for the East Autobahn that had a speed limit of 80 and 100 km/h (while in the West you had of course none).

@henryseidel5469

10 ай бұрын

It was not that easy. The two-stroke engine was lubricated by a mixture of oil and petrol, so you always had to make sure the lubrication was not interrupted with the engine getting blocked.

My grandfather still has one of these badboys. (The 4 stroke actually but still)

@rauschi3863

3 жыл бұрын

Then it was one of the last. With the VW engine.

The Trabant (trabi) is a ZERO emissions vehicle! it has Zero emissions controls in place!

@windhelmguard5295

4 жыл бұрын

a recent study carried out by the kraftfahrtbundesamt (federal institution of powered traffic) found that the trabant is, to this day, the cleanest production car ever built, outperforming even smart cars in terms of amount of CO₂ produced per kilometre driven.

@zacharytracy3797

4 жыл бұрын

Got the name of that study?

@eDoc2020

3 жыл бұрын

@@windhelmguard5295 Cleanliness of exhaust and amount of CO2 are completely separate issues. CO2 is relatively harmless and is just a function of the fuel burned. Dirty exhaust can contain nitrous oxides, unburnt fuel, and more which have direct health consequences.

@windhelmguard5295

3 жыл бұрын

@@eDoc2020 the truth is that the laws of physics dictate that, the less fuel you're burning, the less dirt of all kinds is produced in total. all gasoline engines produce nitrous oxides, more so than the trabant even, since they have to burn more fuel to get the desired result. soot is also produced by all combustion engines, difference being that "dirty" old cars produce soot with larger particles (hence why their exhaust is visible and considered dirtier) which are fairly harmless because the human nose can filter those out, the soot modern cars produce has smaller particles (which is why you can't see it), which can actually get into the lungs and cause health issues.

@eDoc2020

3 жыл бұрын

@@windhelmguard5295 My understanding is that the more tightly controlled AFR provided by EFI reduces emissions at the engine itself (too lean makes NOX and too rich makes soot) and the catalytic converter reduces the emissions more. Also not burning the oil surely helps. Do you happen to have the emissions numbers for the Trabant?

A FRIEND OF MINE drove one across Africa - it was hysterical... But the cornering is astonishing in them, they are so light they corner AMAZINGLY.

This car sounds more like a Brush Cutter attached to a skid steer. I viewed a video of the Trabant quality control line...Here people were adjusting fit and alignment with hammers, blocks of wood, body checking and kicking panels into alignment. Very high tech and precise.

As I’m sure you know by now, idle quality in a 2 stroke has a lot to do with how well the crankcase is sealed. As seals and gaskets begin to leak, idle quality suffers. Pressure and vacuum tests verify this situation though. Thanks for the video!

@Chappomusic

2 жыл бұрын

It's fairly simple job , maybe it's also the reason that he finds 70 a good cruising speed . we always had pedal to the metal and drove 105 -:)

I love the Trabant. Great video :D Greetings from Zwickau, where the Trabant was built :D

@RandallFlaggNY

5 жыл бұрын

Galant, greetings from NY. I was shocked to see the Trabi had cup holders. I thought they were considered Bourgeois... no?

@nichderjeniche

5 жыл бұрын

@@RandallFlaggNY Like most old european cars, Trabant did not have any cup holders, he put him there himself.

@LouRaX

4 жыл бұрын

Galantdriver :D

This is so interesting, I always wondered why my Mom used to use the gas so inconsistently even in modern cars.

I love the shelf that runs the entire length of the dash for the copious tools you’ll need to bring with you

@juliogonzo2718

3 жыл бұрын

Probably just need a hammer, flat head screwdriver, and a couple wrenches. Roll of tape too

I love that you kept the Hungarian plate :D

@alexanderszalai4469

6 жыл бұрын

DaneShady nekem is feltűnt

@Silly_Cone

6 жыл бұрын

Nekem is :D

@justaguy9224

6 жыл бұрын

Nekem is :)

@hungarywarrior2476

6 жыл бұрын

nekem is

@autobotrx

6 жыл бұрын

Hajrá Magyarok! :D

beware! keep some space, keep some space. a trabant has no breaks, a trabant has a "delay" only it's amazing to see a trabant driving on the streets of the united states

@roberttoth8923

3 жыл бұрын

and it's made of cardboard

@RobiBue

3 жыл бұрын

roberttoth8923 how many people does it take to build a Trabi? Two! One holds the cardboard, the other one applies the glue! 🤣😂

Actually seems like not such a bad car. Reminds me a bit of the old VW Beetles, of which I had several in the 60's/70's. Nice and simple, easy to get to the wiring behind the dashboard. Nowdays you have to dismantle the entire dashboard to change a light bulb. Nothing wrong with sophisticated, electronic, high-performance cars for those that want them, but it's too bad they don't make any simple cars at all any more these days. I also had a Lada, which was built like a tank and simple too. You could practically do a complete overhaul with the few hand tools provided in the tool bag :-)

This is quite simply the best darn car video on utube. Serene.

What this neglects to show is how behind you all the leaves turn to brown and fall off. But it looks cute, with its wide eyes, looking in wonder at the huge American cars, who try not to step on it.

@agingwheels

6 жыл бұрын

You are the most elegant commenter

@hamfish225

6 жыл бұрын

I loved that there was a Nissan leaf that drove past too

@quadronom

5 жыл бұрын

I would frame that comment and put it over my bed

I learned driving a car in a Trabi when I was 12 years old. This was in 1984 in the GDR.

Have had and have som real old cars myself, one of the funniest things is that you feel like a rallcross driver when driving according to speed limit, to brake the speed limit is more a goal while driving, especially in winter conditions. And you are really DRIVING, your shifting, braking etc gives direct feedback, a modern car is so forgiving I have seen 10yo stealing their parents cars, wont happen with e.g a Trabant.. Cheers from Scandinavia

Having the 4th gear in up position makes perfect sense since then the lever will be out of the way most of the time. Like the R4 that in early 70s had the 4th when the lever was pushed in but later changed to normal config which meant the lever was in the way most of the time

The Z stands for "Zu" which means closed, the A stands for "Auf" which means open and the R stands for "Reserve" which you can probably figure out yourself^^

@agingwheels

6 жыл бұрын

It was the Zu I had trouble finding. This is mostly because I thought German for "on" was "ein", but I clearly know nothing.

@gerionbenz4507

6 жыл бұрын

Jonas Simson power

@brockbain8656

6 жыл бұрын

Ein is singular isnt it "ich bin ein mann" Eine is feminine and Einen is when you possess something (I believe)

@4ssiprinz

6 жыл бұрын

'ein' has two meanings in German. As a pronoun (a/an), and as an adjective (on). However, in German, you can switch stuff 'on/ein', but valves and similar machinery are referred to as being open or closed, instead of on or off. Also, 'ein' in the sense of 'on' was later replaced by 'an' ('anschalten' meaning 'to switch on'). I know, our language is weird.

@commanderbaccara8578

6 жыл бұрын

Broienk Baieyne You're completely right! Ich komme übrigens aus Deutschland 😉

The older a car is the faster 70km/h seems Edit: We had a Morris minor 1000 70km/h seems like 100mph I had ride in a 1919 t model ford... it Feld like 100 mph when it was at 30km/h

It's nice the windshield wipers are always right in your line of sight. Otherwise you might forget you have them.

This video is interesting. I can relate to the turn signals because I drive a 2002 GEM car with non-self-cancelling turn signals and a burned out interior blinker fuse (so I can't tell if they're on without sticking my head out the window) - and I was learning German around the time that the Berlin wall came down and seeing a Trabant takes me back.

Now that's a true chick magnet. Love the Trabants

@Replevideo

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely. If his rivals for a young lady's attention only had mopeds, the Trabant owner was king.

@dreadpenguinlord340

5 жыл бұрын

It's a magnet, but oftentimes the wrong polarity...

@bunzeebear2973

4 жыл бұрын

Blind deaf chicks that can't detect odors?

@hunchanchoc8418

4 жыл бұрын

My wife loved the vibration coming up through the passenger seat. No kidding.

5:10 it has an old hungarian licence plate!😮

@da_real_dominic_toretto538

3 жыл бұрын

Jaja

@That_weird_guy_Dragooon

3 жыл бұрын

Igen

As an east german, who's grandfather used to drive a Trabbi, i'm really happy to see this east german classic getting some love from overseas :)

0:29 Z, A and R stands for "Zu"(closed),"Auf"(opened), and Reserve(reserve).

I have only one question HOW DID YOU FIND A HUNGARIAN TRABANT IN GOOD CONDITION???????????!?!!!?!!?

@thefreedomguyuk

3 жыл бұрын

I'm occasionally in Budapest, and well preserved Trabis are not all that rare.

@barnabasantoni-kovacs9631

3 жыл бұрын

ahogy látom, itt a magyar gang

@That_weird_guy_Dragooon

3 жыл бұрын

@@barnabasantoni-kovacs9631 hát persze

@indominusrex1652

3 жыл бұрын

Hát igen

@That_weird_guy_Dragooon

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel ! Iggen

I am from Germany and my grandma had her Trabant from 1961 and still drive like Pro

This is the kind of content we need should we end up with a Trabant that we need to know how to operate.

Imagine being this guy's neighbor and watching him drive up and down the street in this little death trap contraption.

As a German, I'm happy to see that this Car is stil getting respected

@ZGryphon

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure "respected" is really the word. :)

@topg7290

3 жыл бұрын

Jo sind meine Eltern damals gefahren. Schönes Auto.

@henryseidel5469

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZGryphon Don't forget the technology is over sixty years old. And it is still working. After my grandfather had come back from the war he was happy about this little "pearl", which was his first car after a life in sadness and misery.

I used to have a pea green one in 2001 when I lived in Poland. I loved it. It was very quick in first gear. Loved the smell of the 2 stroke exhaust fumes. 👃

I love your enthusiasm about the Trabbi! My dad had one in the 80s. Fun fact 1: The Trabant's engine was manufactured in a town called _"Karl-Marx-Stadt"._ Fun fact 2: In the GDR, due to the shortage of everything, second-hand cars were more expensive than new cars. (you probably already heart about the waiting time of 10 to 12 years. My dad said that the longer the car the longer you have to wait, if you want a new car. And that is why there were more sub-compact Trabants than larger, but still compact cars like Wartburg, Lada or Skoda in the GDR.)

@henryseidel5469

10 ай бұрын

The car was not manufactured in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) but in Zwickau, former enterprise was 'Horch'.

@Pedroleum100

10 ай бұрын

@@henryseidel5469 - You misread my post. I said that the car's engine was manufactured in KMS, not the car itself.

@henryseidel5469

10 ай бұрын

@@Pedroleum100 Indeed you are right ! The engine was made in 'Barkas'- works in Chemnitz (former Karl-Marx-Stadt), and the car was assembled in "Sachsenring" Zwickau. Thanks for being so attentive, and good luck !

"and down... and down... and down... that's reverse" I DIED!

I still prefer the 2CV...but this has undeniable motorhead charm.

its made from duroplast - it never rusts!

@GerdLPluu

6 жыл бұрын

The panels are. The rest rusts like crazy, you just don't see the thing rusting on first glance.

@lazarnedeljkovic5615

6 жыл бұрын

And gets eaten by rats

@powellchester6580

6 жыл бұрын

And goats! In case you ever run low of fodder in the collective farm, comrade...

@ribik64

6 жыл бұрын

Mental Gear and a pig from the movie Bubamara

@jozefsan

6 жыл бұрын

fiberglass

I also possessed and drove a Trabant from 1980 till 1996. I loved that car and I toured the entire country (Romania) during holidays. Nostalgy. I have to tell that I used to change gears 1-4 without taking the hand from the driving wheel. I held it with 2 fingers an pull-rotated it with the other 3. Only for reverse I Had to use the entire hand, but that gear is possible only when the car stands still, so it is no problem… Best regards.

I am not sure if you are going to read this, but I just bought a Trabant because of your videos. I also got the original german version of the manual. The answer to your gas valve (peacock?) question is A=Auf (open) Z=Zu (closed) R= Reserve (reserve i hope this is spelled right). If you ever have a problem with the translation just DM me. I love your videos have a nice day.

This is the first video of yours I have seen and I dig it. Your explanation of how this is just like any other modern car is spot on. The driving footage was awesome, it looked like you were going much faster than you really were. The Trabant has a lot of, um, character. I still want one.

Im from east Germany near the City of Dresden if you live here you kinda enjoy this there are Hundreds of these... not as Historical pieces but as normal every day Cars they keep on working there are some that are 50years old and have lived through 800.000 kilometers because Replacement Parts are so cheap to find here... especialy in the smaler vilages you can see lots of these...

@vasek987

6 жыл бұрын

Thats interesting. You can barely see any Trabant in Czech republic today. Sometimes in the villages sometimes some enthusiast...

@Jonathan1234345

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah ikr here near Erfurt you also see them quite alot.

@kampfmeersau

5 жыл бұрын

vasek987 But you czechs still have a lot of old Skodas and a fanbase around it. Beautiful cars.

@Innochamp

5 жыл бұрын

Leider nicht mehr. Ein paar fahren in Dresden als Mietautos rum, der Rest in nur noch in Liebhaberhand

@Innochamp

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jonathan1234345 aber viele sind es wirklich nicht mehr.

My childhood was just before reunification of Germany and my hometown was completely full of these cars and I remember how faszinated I was of how much smoke these little cars produced. The exhaust pipe was covered by a thick black stuff up to 10 cm from the end so you can tell how much oil it burned up!

Incredible machine! Impossible to rust! And the design is aging like fine wine as time goes on! :)

for all who smirk at Trabant: you shouldn't. people find Trabant a laughing stock because it's outdated, small and austere. but, it's not the car's fault that it stayed in production way too long and technology moved on. that was a political decision. it's not the car's fault that it was conceived as a budget car in a poor country. btw. this car was technically very innovative when it first appeared (for the time): light, front wheel drive, reliable, zippy, rugged and affordable. i mean, just look at comparable generation japanese small cars - huge similarities - small, square, 2-stroke. secondly, it was the first car to use recycled materials. thirdly the car was designed in a very short time out of a project which was originally intended to be a motorcycle with trailer. the car itself has preformed it's role of providing transportation on an affordable budget in countries with horrid road infrastructure plagued with usual parts shortage. and for this it needs to be respected both as a technical solution in austere social context and for the service it has provided in such conditions over decades.

@MetalTrabant

6 жыл бұрын

Very well said, sir! :)

@sirboomsalot4902

6 жыл бұрын

Amen

@Gynkys

6 жыл бұрын

>poor country it was made in communist (east) germany darling, it was just a very very poor car and it deffinetly wasnt anywhere close to zippy, or rugged,... or reliable, they were very crappy cars when they came out, and they remained that way. the japanese had rotary engines in that period arleady, quite good luxury cars, and very good cars in general.

@charredlizard1389

6 жыл бұрын

east the average person in east germane was very poor 'darling' the Russians did not care all the much for the Germans and the only real reason the country was there was as an extra buffer. it wasn't until Germany unified that people were finally able to live proper lives and the infrastructure was rebuilt to a reasonable standard.

@MetalTrabant

6 жыл бұрын

@Gynkys: It IS zippy, rugged and reliable, and I know that from actually using one as my only car for 6 years now, not from some stupid Western gossip... only one breakdown was in that period, and always starts if the battery is good. Of course it needs some servicing here and then, but which 34 years old car doesn't? Definitely needs less servicing than a rotary Mazda or NSU from that age, or a luxury car filled with useless electronic crap destined to pricy failures... And for the record, there were Trabant prototypes with rotary and diesel engines, just the frickin' Communist Party didn't allow any large modifications to the base model.

If you are having problems with idling, your engine might be loosing compression, or you have incorrect air/fuel ratio. What type of carburetor are you using? If it is the 28H 1-1 it has a bypass idling fuel and air nozzles, or how do you cal them... passages inside the carb itself, so you may need to clean them, there is also a needle screw behind the throttle - choke linkage that needs cleaning and re-adjusting. Older carburetors seem to be running without issues from my experience. Oh, and I almost forgot, the level of the fuel inside the carb needs to be set correctly, so it does not overflow and flood the intake. There is a needle that gets worn down above the float ball, if it is faulty, not closing the fuel valve will cause the gas to drip underneath the car in a few minutes. Hope you find this helpful!

@95thFoot

6 жыл бұрын

It might also be an air leak between the air cleaner and the carburetor. Mine does that, and I have to get a better quality air intake hose. Put your hand over the air cleaner while the car is running. If the car starts to shut off, the air path is OK. But if it does nothing, and then only starts to shut off when you put you hand over the carburetor throat itself, then the air intake hose needs to be replaced.

@REVOLTAR53

6 жыл бұрын

I have removed the air filter and replaced it with a cone filter - the car runs with no problem, and runs the same without an air filter, so a bad hose should not be a problem.

@michaelszczys8316

5 жыл бұрын

I would have to say a Trabant engine doesn’t get hurt from going down a hill with throttle closed so much as more likely from running too lean or not having enough oil in the gas in the first place. With needle bearing connecting rods you KNOW when you don’t have enough oil.

If it’s got an inconsistent idle that varies wildly I’d look at the throttle shaft bushings on the carburetor first as this is usually the issue when you can’t get a consistent idle. When worn badly enough they’ll allow a vacuum leak that changes often due to where the shaft ends up letting air in each time you let off the gas.

Trabant was very popular here in former Czechoslovakia (now Czechia and Slovakia), my grandpa owned a combi version.