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i guess you could touch up that burned off paint with fabric dye
Love the end. They just wanted to talk turkey.
Goth Trabant?
Years ago, I watched a guy that looked like Mr. T (only way bigger) use Ajax powdered bleach (the stuff for toilets) on a red car that was so shot it looked like faded pink. Really cut thru the oxidation.
Howto detail a trabant? Set it on fire!
Not to come off as judgemental or confrontational or anything like that, but are you ever going to fix the seat?
poor Trabby probably doesn't understand a thing of what is going on…
I love this channel. Underrated
Awesome Trabant 601!
I wonder if boat gel coat would work on duroplast.
you can't touch up a Trabant??
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I’d like to see you get your hands on a Soviet commercial truck.
Your relationship with this eccentric remnant of communist-era design makes for compelling viewing in a way that's pretty impossible to explain.
You missed a spot. I suggest a brown strip down the middle to hide the spots. And to match your shorts when you take it on the highway.
Due to the mascara headlight rims being added , the trebant now needs a decent waxed moustache added.
7:22 "My tool is too big to fit into these crevices. So, instead, I have to use my fingers. And it's gonna be a lot of work."
Unexpectedly lines usable in pr0n.
Quite an enjoyable advert
I can feel how happy that little car is now
Trabants 4 ever!
As someone who has a single stage paint job on my 85 F150 (built 84) I use wd40 because my paint is thin enough if you was to fart it would fly away
ROFL ROFL ROFL
I've never seen a Trabbi looking so shiny. How bourgeois!
It's designed not to outshine a Wartburg.
Ah the (not so) good old Trabant.
My Grandpa had 2 of these and had to wait around 12 YEARS for the second one to be delivered.
That was an event for the whole family, back in around 1987.
Wir hatten ja nüscht. 😄
interesting to know the trabant's body was made from recycled pants
"A fancy German Sander for my (lol) German Car!" I'm dying!
Omfg lmfao …. this man is more brave with his paper thin paint then I am with my crappy truck 🤣
"Yeah I need a can of Communist Green?"
Basically all panels are made like the ww2 u.s. helmet liner XDDDD. Resin and duckcloth heathed and pressed
Resin and cotton…. what if the car catches fire.
You DEFINITELY started too coarse with 400-grit. I use 400-grit wet-sanding to polish metal, for god's sake. You should've started at 1000-grit.
You really need to repaint the headlight bezels to match the rest of the car. I don't care how hard it is to match the color. The black ones look awful.
Im almost certain it is customary to burn entirely through the paint on whatever car you try polishing your fist time. Its a right of passage.
yeah should have used some mild rubbing compound by hand
"Many machines on Ix. Better than those on Richese…"
– The Guild Master that lives in your Trabbi
I love the fact, that you kept the Hungarian license plate
you're supposed to wetsand with 2000grit when you are polishing it after….
Good news is : it does look better. Bad news is : it just looks like a less crappy piece of crap. This is why communism died. Yugos, Trabants, and Mosvich's.
I’m of the bonnet persuasion 😂 love that. I was under the impression that the color was molded into the Duraplast, and it wasn’t even painted, but this being the GDR I would fully expect the enslaved North Korean factory workers (yes, that was a thing, almost nobody ever mentions or talks about it but there was a weekly flight from East Berlin to Pyongyang on Interflug specifically for the workers) at the Zwickau factory to like lightly brush on the paint with a model kit paintbrush
Long term treatment is to powder coat the car. It will be far more durable than the factory paint. Not to keep it from rusting but to avert paint burn in which happened with too much polishing. In the meantime, consider the brown spots on the hood character if you can stand them!
Superbly funny, my new fave You Tube channel. ✌💙 Bob
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7:22 giggity
Content idea! Do a homage to Herbie and paint his stripes to cover the burn spots.
Detailing of Trabbi with waxing, and ceramic coating is pure overkill. The old patina fits better, because it didn't looked any better brand new in the factory ready for delivery. The must have detail on that wannabe car are commie era licence plates, preferably DDR plates and oval DDR country code sticker. Thats it all what it needs to fit to the zeitgeist of the era. Those Hungarian plates does not fit at all, those are a post commie plates, almost contemporary plates used until EU membership.
But I guess, a Hungary is a good place for harvesting a used spare parts because at 1989 on the country's western border to Austria Hungarians got a plenty of abandoned Trabants. 1989 was the year of exodus of biblical proportions of east Germans to the west, and Trabants are left behind in oblivion.
During a Yugoslav commie era that vehicle as a marvel of German automotive engineering was the bottom of the market, the biggest competitor for bottom position was Soviet/Ukranian beauty ZAZ Zaporožec, a crappie Yugo was highend quality vehicle compared to Trabant. There was even a story as urban legend that duroplast panels of one Trabant was eaten by pigs.
Today that awful litle car look as nice educative DIY project for kids to learn a basics of car mechanics.
I noticed the "z" or "zed" on the front. I think the car manufacturer was acquired by Opel at one point after reunitification after 1989. I remember seeing shitty looking cars in the mid-2000s owned by some Germans. I had a 1989 Opel Kadett GSI with LCD gauges. It was cool for the LCD stuff. I was a soldier in Europe, if you are wondering.
"My tool is too big, so I have to use my fingers" – Robert 2022.
Mr. Robert Dunn I have a theory the reason why the rough sanded patch is shinier than the very smooth sanded patch is because I think the polisher can grab the paint and melt it with the friction and make it shiny and the other part can't do it as well that's my theory hopefully that makes sense to you
Trabi Looks Happy Being Clean And Bright 🙂
Your trabant is iconic and your best car!