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Tales of a Cold War era Trabant 601 in Budapest

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The Trabant is a classic car from East Germany that many people recognize. It was made with a very basic design and often produced a lot of smoke from its engine, which is part of what makes it unique.

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One of the days, I was driving the Trabant around town, and this woman starts waving at

me furiously, and I thought, oh, she just thinks my car's on fire, right, because the smoke coming

out of the tailpipe.

Yep, I saw that smoke.

But she's waving me in, and so I pull over, and she was so excited, she said, oh my

god, it's a Trabant, it's a Trabant.

And I said...

She knew.

Okay, she knew, right, so we got something in common.

And I said, how do you know Trabant?

And she said, well, years ago, my husband and I went to Budapest for business, and there was

a problem with our rental car reservation, and we couldn't get a car, and someone sold

us a Trabant in the parking lot, and we drove to Budapest for two weeks, and when we went

back to the airport, we just left the keys in it, and we gave it away, and she...

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Tales of a Cold War era Trabant 601 in Budapest

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