Wednesday 3 March 2010

Building East German Cars

This is a video from the old East German Trabant car plant, where steel shortages often resulted in cars being built from cardboard and workers kicked components into place.



(thanks Cora)

3 comment(s):

Speedmaster said...

Gotta love the East-German Cold War Mullet!

Atl auto insurance said...

Cardboard cars?
reminds me of the old sturday night live skit for the adobe cars.

Anybody remember that one?

Anonymous said...

Hey but the shut lines are better than they were on most US cars from the same period.