East Germany's Automotive Industry Symbol
An old Trabant from the 70's parked right in front of a brutalist building from the 50's. It doesn't get better than this if you happen to have a weak spot for communist creations!
This car has been parked (and mind you, this is not a parking place) in front of the apartment block for at least four years. Wonder why it is in a relatively good condition? I have seen the owner a few times cleaning the car and pumping the tires. Crazy, huh?
Have you ever seen a Trabant in real life? It's a bizarre car, to say the least.
Thanks for dropping by!
Dan
Our car is a '95 model and has a non functional right door and a decaying body. It still works.
It sounds a lot like the car me and my girlfriend have right now :) What kind of a car do you have?
Its a Toyota Tamaraw FX 95 model.
Now my father happened to fix the door and it is working now.
Pretty hard on the road because every bump I can feel with my aching back @irreverent-dan
I must say , I really really like this picture. There is something profound about it. That's gas that your man cleans it and pumps the tyres, but doesn't drive it... Like something from a comedy.. :o)
I am glad that you like it, man :) I must say that there's also something creepy about that :)
Ya, I really do, really arty.... There must be some story behind the man who keeps that car going... A bet, a lost relative they cant let go of.. Who knows?
I have never seen a Trabant in real life! But I had the same feeling when I saw Lada's all over Russia while traveling there - other era, and interesting cute little cars between all the brutalist and depressing architecture :D
Haha :) The Lada's are classic! My grandfather used to have a shiny blue Lada :) When did you travel in Russia?
Oh WOW! I love them, they are cute little cars. I traveld through Russia in 2015, stayed for a month. Trans Mongolia Express via Ulaanbaator to Beijing :D
Oh WOW - this must have been a fabulous experience! Did you traveled on your own and do you happen to speak Russian?
P.S. Sorry for the super-late reply :) I kinda took a very looong summer break from Steemit.
Ohhh - summer breaks are a great idea :D
Yes, it was fabulous indeed! I still need to convert all those stories (and pictures! ;-)) to Steemit :D
I don't speak Russian but I did learn the Cyrillic alphabet which was just enough to decipher hamburger, pasta bolognese, computer, auto, taxi, sushi... :')
If there was a "Muscovite", "Zaporozhets" or old "Zhiguli", I would think that this photo is from Russia during the USSR
Haha, absolutely! You can still some of those cars here :)
That's hilarious @irreverent-dan. Maybe he takes the car out when you're not looking. 😂
Haha, yes! I usually walk this street in the morning on my way to work, so maybe he takes it out for a spin during the day 😁
I haven seen quite a few Trabants in my life, but none of them for years. I remember though the exhaust smoke smell of them and the noise :)
Haha, both the exhaust smoke smell and the noise are hard to forget! 😁
Great picture to capture the sense of place. Never heard of the car tho.
Thanks, dude! I think these cars never made it across the Atlantic :)
Such a sick capture!
Thanks man! :)
Hi, dear Dan!
You still can see those cars in Romania, too :)
I'm planning a trip to Bulgaria, maybe we'll have a beer together. Are you on Discord to send you a private message?
Hey Cristina :) That's awesome! You can find me on discord as irreverent-dan#4220
I've written you :)
Yeah rarely I would still see them in Holland, but that was getting more and more like a collectersitem. But they look so cute!
So, if I understand correct....this dude is cleaning the car and maintaining it, but is never driving and it is one the sidewalk??
Weird dude,....weird
You understood correctly, lol :) I wonder how those that live there tolerate him 🙄
I'd be super surprised to see one of these cars in a Western country :)