Cars in East Germany

[frumpy]

Hi there, I saw a screenshot with 2 Lada in Berlin (?):

 

The most common car at that time was the Trabant, almost 50-60% of all cars were Trabants 601.

About 15-20% were Wartburg 353. About 10% were Lada 2101–2107, but we also had Skodas and Dacia 1300.

At that age, for me, the king of cars was the Volga taxi. They were also used by the russians and due to low octane fuel they had a very distinctive smell:

Edited March 17 by frumpy

[portman]

I saw a Trabant as a police car on one of the screenshots. 

This is historically incorrect, as the police only used Ladas, Volgas, Wartburgs and Barkas. If you ever see a Trabant police car anywhere, it's definitely a fake, created after the fall of the Wall.

As I already said in another thread, please also add the military versions of the Trabant Kuebel (!), Barkas, IFA P3, IFA G5, W50, and L60 trucks, as well as the famous Tatra 148, 813 and 815 trucks. Thank you 

Edit: There were also no public CCCP slogans in East Germany at this time. These were only present within the walls of Soviet garrisons.

Edited March 18 by portman

[Tom Kazansky]

21 minutes ago, portman said:

I saw a Trabant as a police car on one of the screenshots. 

This is historically incorrect, as the police only used Ladas, Volgas, Wartburgs and Barkas. If you ever see a Trabant police car anywhere, it's definitely a fake, created after the fall of the Wall.

 

the "Trabi Museum" disagrees on facebook:

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"At the end of 1987, a small number of Trabant were “converted” in the factory and made available as test vehicles in the GDR police stations in Leipzig, Eberswalde and Dresden. These cars have proven themselves to be of little use and the tried and tested vehicles of the Wartburg, Lada and Barkas brands have been retained. The „Volkspolizei“ Trabi in the museum remained admitted to the police headquarter in Eberswalde until 1993."

https://www.facebook.com/TrabiMuseum/videos/volkspolizei-trabant/238948630434051/

 

Edited March 18 by Tom Kazansky

[okopanja]

24 minutes ago, portman said:

I saw a Trabant as a police car on one of the screenshots. 

This is historically incorrect, as the police only used Ladas, Volgas, Wartburgs and Barkas. If you ever see a Trabant police car anywhere, it's definitely a fake, created after the fall of the Wall.

As I already said in another thread, please also add the military versions of the Trabant Kuebel (!), Barkas, IFA P3, IFA G5, W50, and L60 trucks, as well as the famous Tatra 148, 813 and 815 trucks. Thank you 

Edit: There were also no public CCCP slogans in East Germany at this time. These were only present within the walls of Soviet garrisons.

This dude drove both Trabant and Zastava:

Also where the bicycles all baby-blue in DDR?

[portman]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb Tom Kazansky:

the "Trabi Museum" disagrees on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/TrabiMuseum/videos/volkspolizei-trabant/238948630434051/

 

These were only test vehicles, which were found to be too small and too slow for everyday use. For sure they would have never been seen in Berlin at the inner-German border.

[Tom Kazansky]

59 minutes ago, portman said:

These were only test vehicles, which were found to be too small and too slow for everyday use. For sure they would have never been seen in Berlin at the inner-German border.

Agreed. But they are not all fake or built after 1989 as stated.

 

[gulredrel]

1 hour ago, okopanja said:

Also where the bicycles all baby-blue in DDR?

My first bike as a kid back than was indeed blue 

[Silver_Dragon]

That bikes has no the same of the atrezzo of Normandy WW2?