Budapest Trabant

From Jonathan Welsh: "We were visiting relatives in Budapest a few years back when this relic cropped up. But collectors in the U.S. have also been acquiring them lately...

"The Trabant, slow, loud and poorly made, rolled off assembly lines in the old East Germany from 1957 until 1991. Drivers often spent years on waiting lists for the privilege of owning one...

"The grille and bumper on this wagon or "universal" model tell me it is a 1.1, the final version from 1990 and 1991. It got a license-built four-stroke, four cylinder Volkswagen engine to replace the 500cc and 600cc two-stroke, two-cylinder mills in earlier Trabants. Styling changed little in 30-odd years of production."

AL: we posted a collection of Trabant photos a while back. And a Trabi convertible in Meckllenburg. A Trabant cop car.

What about Trabi as lowrider?