Inside Trabant Factory - How they built Reliable Trabant (that ran for 27 years)

Trabant 601 Quality Control in Zwickau plant (Germany). Manufacturing process by hands inside Trabant factory. Historic footage documentary. Retro Trabi Assembly line - VEB Sachsenring

What are Trabant body panels made of?
Trabant body panels are made from Duroplast, which is a composite thermosetting plastic, a close relative of formica and bakelite. It is a resin plastic reinforced with fibers (either cotton or wool mill waste) making it a fiber-reinforced plastic similar to fiberglass.

How many trabants are left?
It was cheap to produce, with an outer body made of hard plastic. The car's moment in the spotlight came with the fall of the Berlin wall, as citizens of the DDR spilled over the newly open East-West border in their "Trabis." There are still some 33,000 Trabants roaming the streets of Germany today.

Is Trabant made out of cardboard?
The Trabant had a steel frame, with the roof, boot lid, bonnet, wings and doors made of duroplast, a hard plastic made from recycled cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry.

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