Start Season 2026 with New Engine
During the development period, i.e. the next almost 2,000 km, I will not exceed a speed of 80 km/h and will mix the oil 1:33.
Under the Cardboards is Painted. Cardboars First Fiberglass Applied
Under the Cardboards Painted I painted under the cardboards with MetalForce Urethane 8:1:1. Cardboards Glued with Fiberglass Today i glued the cardboards with fiberglass. The green thing is masking tape on the outer side. I marked with big arrows the places that need to be glued 🙂 All the 6…
Meeting in Montreal
A few Trabant owners met in Montreal on 2021-07-21. It was very nice and i am waiting for the next one. I will be without my Trabant, but it’s still fun.
Eastern European Monkey
A Soviet watch + Bulgarian knife + east German car = Eastern European Monkey!
Trabant Gletscherblau = VW Beetle 1974 Olympic Blue (or Marina Blue or between these two colors)
The Meeting Today the Montreal’s Trabant club had a meeting. Very nice and friendly people. My friend gave me his car to drive. I didn’t do this since 1999. Four more “known” cars were missing – mine, 1.1 Universal and other two 2-strokes. One of the Trabant owners also owns…
Documentation
I will use this folder to put all the documentation that i collected – operation manuals, repair manuals, electricity plans, etc. My naming convention is: <Book Title> (<Year>) (<Language>) The languages that i usually collect are German, English and Bulgarian (my mother language).
Hello world!
Me echo “Hello World”; As you can see from my personal blog/website or whatever it is, i am a database developer/architect/conceptionalist or whatever it is. This doesn’t disturb me to love the East German legend. This is the last picture before the big meeting of my hand tools and the…
The Trabant arrived in Montreal
Today the cars arrived in Montreal. We had three Trabants in one container – mine and two other 1.1. The supporting planks were nailed to the floor, which is made of very hard material. We sweated until we released them, but after one hour and 10 minutes they all were…