Anissa took a picture of Julian and I in front of a restored Trabant Saturday in Leipzig. Because steel was expensive and rare in communist Germany, the Trabant was made out of a plastic resin composite with wool or cotton for reinforcement. Some people call them cardboard cars. There are a bunch of them still around Leipzig. People typically ordered them when they had a baby because the waiting list to get one was around 18 years. Used ones sold for more than new ones because they were immediately available. They had a smokey 2 cycle engine with 25 HP and did 0 to 60 in about 20 seconds.More here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
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