Quality controls on Trabants in East Germany

[alpac]

An interesting video of the quality controls made on Trabant cars. Trabant were made in East Germany and had a two-stroke engine, a steel body with roof, hood, trunk and doors in Duraplast, a kind of cardboard built of resin and cotton. Production ended at the beginning of the 90s. It is kind of funny to look at this now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaF5J...elated&search=

[ravenheart]

Went to eastern Berlin a good while after the wall had come down - and these things were everywhere. My parents had an old Skoda - so I (a yong kid, back then) saw the Trabants and thought: "Hey, thats not too bad!" Looking back though, it makes sense that the quality control was like that