E. German Motorists Celebrate 50 Years of Iconic Car

By Sue Doyle on June 16, 2007 10:21 AM | | Comments (0) |

berlinwall.jpg About 2,000 owners of the belching, wheezing, sputting cars known as Trabants gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the car previously manufactured in former East Germany, reports the New York Times.

Now a symbol of an era before the Berlin Wall fell, these cars first rolled off the assembly line in 1957. Residents waited on long lists to buy one. Production stopped in 1991.

Trabants (the word means fellow traveler in German) hold a nostalgic place in the hearts of many East Germans.
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