Autoquiz #611 - Finished

[carsntrucks4you]

In 1954 the Council of Ministers of East Germany decided that a small passenger car has to be build to mass motorising East Germany. It should have 2 proper seats and 2 smaller sats and should weight no more than 600kg (1322lbs). Due to steel shortage it should have a plastic body. The VEB Automobilwerk "Audi" Zwickau developed the AWZ P50. After merging  of VEB Automobilwerk "Audi" Zwickau and VEB Sachenring Kraftfahrzeug und Moterenwerke Zwickau to VEB Sachenring Automobilwerke Zwickau the prodution of the now Trabant P50 called car started. Between 1957 and 1962 131,495 units were build. . The P50 was powered by a two cylinder two stroke engine with 30.5 cui 17 hp  later 20 hp. The successor Trabant 600 or Trabant P60 shares the same body work with the P50. this was build from 1962 - 1965.

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Edited July 22, 2024 by carsntrucks4you

[thatz4u]

pm'd

[Ace-Garageguy]

Easy kinda sorta maybe. PM'd.  

[peteski]

Yeah this one was easy for me, and brought back some memories too.

[Earl Marischal]

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steve

[DonW]

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[Ace-Garageguy]

Fascinating little cars, with cotton-fiber/phenolic-resin composite body skins.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duroplast

Edited July 22, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[peteski]

When I was growing up in Poland in the '70s, my uncle owned the next generation Trabant 601S.  I remember the time there was a crack in the trunk lid and he used epoxy to glue it.  I remember it so clearly because he took couple of pieces of my cousin's wooden erector set to not mar the paint when he clamped the pieces together.  And on one of the vacation trips he used my aunt's thin metal fingernail file to clean the spark plug gap when the car started running crappy.  The old Polish ingenuity. Make do with what you have.