looks like bjoern had fun!

[stiz]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101004/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-east-car-116e0fe.html

2 nutters took their Trabi to 145mph!

[Bjoern]

(We've never owned a car prior to 1990. Before that, it was always lending grandpa's Skoda if a car was needed.)


http://www.noz.de/th/bg_article/46696882.jpg

That thing has 270 hp - dang!



There's another racing Trabi out there that still has two cylinders, but got tweaked so extensively that the engine now delivers four times the power (~100 hp) making for a top speed of 201 kph.

http://bilder.bild.de/BILD/regional/leipzig/aktuell/2010/07/26/der-schnellste-trabi-der-welt/trabi-17110541-mfbq,templateId=renderScaled,property=Bild,width=4 65.jpg

[ian elliot]

Wow that looks pretty smart, ive just been on a trip to Budapest for a few days and there's still quite a lot of trabbies still running around, seems people still look after them and have a certain amount of pride in owning them.
kinda wish'd i could have a drive of one myself.
cheers ian

[Lionheart]

LOLOL.... Great article.

Can you imagine the body panels vibrating away and waving in the wind as it achieves maximum velocity of one-four-five!!! lol... Plumes of small bits flinging off, shards of fiberglass and tiny nuts and bolts, the blue 'afterburner' like con trail from the two stroke oil smoke plume..