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Trabant - Lost and Found
About 20 years ago, I picked up some postcard models while on a business trip to Germany. Last Wednesday evening, while looking through a seldom-opened desk drawer, I was surprised to find part of a Trabant, all scored and cut out and ready for glue. It was intact, which was pretty unlikely considering the delicacy of the tiny model. So I took it upstairs to the workbench and started gluing. It went slowly since the coated postcard paper was kind of reluctant to stick. After a while it occurred to me that it might be good to see if I still had the other parts. Back to the desk drawer, and wondrous to behold, there they were (both of them), also in perfect condition. So, after a couple of more evenings, here it is, all 3 pieces and 3 inches of it. Sorry about the crummy photos; I think I need a different camera. Anyhow, I still have the other two models I bought, a Messerschmitt "bubble car" and an Isetta, in my stash. The models come from P.A.R.C. and they're still around at www.parc.de with quite a few more simple car models as well as other car ephemera. The little guy seems to be happy to be completed after all this time!
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Micro model of a micro car, nice job.
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Delicate work!
There were published cardkits of numerous Trabant variations to build. Now high-resolution scans of them (in common 1:24 scale) are available in the web.
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It's cute, I like it! The front end look similar to '55 Chevrolet.
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Wasn't the Trabant body made from cotton, resin and industrial waste?
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That's right, the body panels material, named "duroplast", was produced from phenol formaldehyde resin and cotton waste.
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