Building a Pinto Indy myself - will I'm sure be plenty quick enough for starters !
Anyhow I have occasion to go to Hungary on business, and yesterday was fighting through the Budapest rush hour on route to Ferihegy airport.
At a set of lights a tidy light blue trabby pulled up along side, looked nothing out of the ordinary except that I could not hear the engine & it was'nt chucking out blue smoke (most unusual), also in the back window was a sticker something like Hungarian Street Racing Club.
The driver was young with designer shades on and looked a bit too cool to be driving a trabby.
Before I could sus out anything else the traffic lights changed and before anyone could blink this thing was the other side of the road & gone !!
Lovely 4 pot bike noise but no drama, wheel spin etc.

On earlier trips I have seen the occasional boy racer trabby, wider wheels, rear spoiler, couple of aerials, sun strip, dulux paint job, furry dice etc. but smoking like a chimney.
This Blue beast was something else - the ultimate Q car ??

Sorry to sound thick... what's a trabby? Sounds good whatever it is!

Pete

Aha, is this one? Looks cool




Pete

Yep, a Trabant. They came with little 2-stroke motors

They are usually a powder blue colour though with cracks all over . They are made out of paper mache

I saw loads when I was in East Germany. Hope he sorted the brakes and suspension out to cope with the new power plant.

They used to lean right over when cornering but I was never sure if that was down to the narrow track or worn springs??

The body panels were more like hardboard, shaped in moulds and then painted. Should be light enough to have a good power to weight ratio though.

Mike

I read they were made of pulp mixed with resin and when they get wet they actually swell. There's a bloke in Derbyshire who has an orchard full of them and the authorities are trying to make him clear them out.
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