Trabants in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Cleveland, OH
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The Trabant is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.
Waymark Code: WMRZH1
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 08/28/2016
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The Trabant was regarded with derisive affection as a symbol of the extinct former East Germany and of the fall of the Eastern Bloc. It was produced for nearly 30 years with almost no significant changes; 3,096,099 Trabants were produced in total.[4] In Western nations, the Trabant's shortcomings are often written about for comedic effect. However, older models of the car have become popular imports among collectors in the US due to their low cost and easier import restrictions on antique vehicles.
Some Trabants had movie roles. A blue model with an orange pop-up roof tent was featured in “Go Trabi Go,” a 1991 German comedy about a family that endures a series of mishaps while driving from Leipzig to Italy.
In the 1998 film “Black Cat, White Cat,” pigs on a Yugoslavian farm are shown eating a Trabant. And in 2001, “Spy Game” had Brad Pitt’s C.I.A. character driving one from East to West Berlin.
The rock group U2 featured several Trabants in its 1992-93 Zoo TV concert tour, and those body shells now hang from the ceiling of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
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