{"id":14692,"date":"2019-12-05T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T06:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=14692"},"modified":"2020-02-03T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:04:08","slug":"when-you-visit-germany-see-trabant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/when-you-visit-germany-see-trabant\/","title":{"rendered":"When YOU Visit Germany, Here\u2019s Something YOU Gotta Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s probably the most unusual, even weird, tourist attraction you\u2019ll ever come across. The fact that the motivating force that moves it forwards and backwards is about as powerful as a \u201cMade in the West\u201d lawnmower is equally bizarre. Yes, its power (?) plant is a 500cc two cylinder stroke engine. Some have called it a \u201cRelic of the Cold War,\u201d while others have referred to it as a showcase for the vast difference between East and West Germany in the bygone days when both were separate countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14696\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14696\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant.jpg\" alt=\"tour guide with Trabant\" width=\"850\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tour-guide-and-Trabant-104x74.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of the Tour guides explains the skimpy, lawnmower type Trabant engine to US media.<\/span> Photograph by John Clayton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is the Trabant, and I drove one. Or tried to.<\/p>\n<p>What, you may well ask, is a Trabant? It\u2019s the amalgamation of some sort of manufacturing process that produced a car for the citizens of East Germany in the years 1957 to 1990. And I drove one, or attempted to do it in <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-bev-munichxmas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Munich<\/a> and Dresden, but NOT as an inhabitant of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Germany<\/a>, but only when the lowly, \u201cTricky Trabant\u201d became a tourist \u201cMust-drive-one-magnet\u201d after the Berlin Wall came down, and\u00a0Germany became one country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14693\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14693\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Writer-in-Trabant.jpg\" alt=\"writer John Clayton in a Trabant\" width=\"850\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Writer-in-Trabant.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Writer-in-Trabant-600x438.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Writer-in-Trabant-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Writer-in-Trabant-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Here\u2019s our fearless (?) Traveling Boy journalist John Clayton on his 2nd attempt to drive a Trabant in Munich. One wonders if the tour guide was calling to see if ANYONE was available to convince John to REALLY take a test drive.<\/span> Photograph by John Clayton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Auto buffs will tell you that it took the dubious title of \u201cThe Worst Car Ever Built.\u201d There\u2019s an old fairy tale about \u201cOld Mother Hubbard\u201d and when she went to the cupboard it was bare. The same might be said about the Trabant \u2013 one\u2019s suspicion is that it left the place where it was assembled totally unfinished, because its interior is completely devoid of any decorations or design work. Yes, it <em>IS<\/em> \u00a0barren!<\/p>\n<p>Along with a group of fellow American travel journalists on a press visit to <em>(a now unified) <\/em>Germany\u00a0one of the first \u201cthings\u201d we were shown in Dresden was a group of \u2013 <em>as they are more commonly known<\/em> \u2013 \u201cTrabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14694\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14694\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Line-of-Trabants.jpg\" alt=\"convertible Trabants\" width=\"850\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Line-of-Trabants.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Line-of-Trabants-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Line-of-Trabants-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Line-of-Trabants-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Incredibly, considering what the Trabant actually is, they even had a Convertible version. The 2 shown were there for visiting US travel media to drive one. No one acted on the offer.<\/span> Photograph by John Clayton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A reality that I found fascinating on this visit, was that whatever we were shown any sort of \u201ctourist related temptation\u201d (!) in what WAS East Germany, every single one was run, managed or owned by a West German! The Easterners had not got used to commercialism, or what was involved in making a profit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14697\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14697\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trabant-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Trabant poster at the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum\" width=\"520\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trabant-Poster.jpg 520w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trabant-Poster-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trabant-Poster-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This is a \u201ctongue-in-cheek\u201d Trabant poster on display in the \u201cDeutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum M\u00fcnchen\u201d (to give it its full name) in Munich. It is well worth visiting, and the motor cars and other forms of transportation are nothing less than mesmerizing.<\/span> Photograph by John Clayton<center><\/center><\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I asked our West German tour guide to give me a briefing on some of the facts about the Trabant. He stunned me by noting that a 10 year wait was involved, because the\u00a0 State was the only outlet that produced them, and \u2013 incredibly &#8211; there was no such thing as automobile showrooms. Once you actually got to order it, you were told there would be an additional wait of 13 years before it was delivered. A few moments later a colleague of our guide came over to me, and said \u201cthe nearer one lived to <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/berlin-yesterday-and-today\/\">Berlin<\/a>, would make the wait much shorter.\u201d He never explained why. Weird!<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t \u00a0have the courage to drive one in Dresden, so I was delighted to hear when we arrived in Munich, we\u2019d get to drive a Trabant! There are many places and organizations where you can rent or drive a Trabi in Germany, and I highly recommend you go online and type in \u201cRenting and driving a Trabant in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putting my courage in my back pocket I knew I absolutely had to drive a Trabant in Munich. However, as I gingerly eased and squeezed myself in, I noticed a huge lack of \u201cThings.\u201d Our entrepreneurial West German guide answered my query by saying, \u201cThe 1980s Trabi had <em>(now get this!)<\/em> no tachometer, no indicator for either headlights or turn signals, no fuel gauge, no rear seat belts, and no external fuel opening door.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14695\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14695\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Media-Group-with-Trabant.jpg\" alt=\"American travel media group with Trabant\" width=\"850\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Media-Group-with-Trabant.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Media-Group-with-Trabant-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Media-Group-with-Trabant-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Media-Group-with-Trabant-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">All of the American travel media group were fascinated by the Trabant, and this was the first time any of us had actually seen it up close and personal in Dresden.<\/span> Photograph by John Clayton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After hearing all this, I instantly realized I could not face the traffic in \u201cMagical Munich,\u201d and opted for the Trabant experience of just sitting in one, and looking at them, and finding out more about this strange and peculiar \u2026 car? Unit of machinery? Or even automotive joke?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, many Americans after seeing and trying the Trabant, wanted to buy one which was \u2013 many years ago \u2013 another source of profits for West Germans to get involved in. However, locating an ever increasing LACK of original Trabis became a\u00a0 huge challenge. During their lifetime (one can hardly say BUILT!) from 1957 to 1990, over 3.76 million were made. Or \u201cProduced.\u201d Contact John: <a href=\"mailto:jd******@***il.com\" data-original-string=\"E0L4lbeiIHFK3TACE6WPLg==8d4xPWw4KOOowNtdDKjguf466gezGrQMfWRuRkgshpsjuU=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='gc9V8ruOqLql11+sxqO2\/Q==8d4mcs0L29QMMNkrAsN7quWJ+G8UUbLUIJGUNkpurgTYTk='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>jd<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s probably the most unusual, even weird, tourist attraction you\u2019ll ever come across. The fact that the motivating force that moves it forwards and backwards is about as powerful as a \u201cMade in the West\u201d lawnmower is equally bizarre. 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