Trabant car books - history and models

Trabant - Legende auf Rädern

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Over a period of nearly 34 years, more than three million Trabant cars were produced - undoubtedly a success. The small car with its Duroplast body has rightly achieved cult status, even though its popularity was largely due to its monopoly in the "market."

Frank Rönicke, who experienced this era firsthand, soberly recounts the history of the legendary "plastic bomber, " marked by setbacks and mishaps. The book, richly illustrated and as thrilling as a crime novel, offers fascinating insights into the Trabant era.

Revised edition of a successful title. With owner stories and restoration reports.

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Author:	Frank Rönicke
Details:	224 pages, 25 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm / 9.8 x 8.5 x 0.75 in, hardback
Illustrations:	230 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2024)
ISBN:	9783613046412

Trabi Love

Racing cardboard, Duroplast bomber, worker's Mercedes: The Trabi has been the target of much malice and ridicule since it first rolled off the production line over sixty years ago. Anyone in the GDR who depended on a car could hardly avoid it - and often felt a strong love/hate relationship with its rattling two-stroke engine.
When it was suddenly able to drive in all directions with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the little Zwickau car quickly won the hearts of car lovers in the West and all over the world. And the classic car with the friendly face has kept this place to this day.

Whether sky blue, olive green or colorfully dotted - "Trabi Love" presents some of the Trabant models that are still cherished and cared for today on over 200 pages. They rattle through Great Britain, France, America and even through Ecuador, where the first ever imported Trabi was paid for with a load of bananas.
But "Trabi Love" not only tells the stories of individual cars, but also brings unknowns to light in powerful images and shows what could have been.

From the contents:
- Worldwide Trabi love: Portraits of internationally maintained Trabis and their owners
- The people behind the Trabant: Interviews with the makers of the GDR cult car
- Rare photos of design and production
- Unknown stories from the development and life of the Sachsenring Trabant

Get into one of the most famous GDR products and live the dream of the people's car for everyone once again.

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Author:	Thorsten Elbrigmann
Details:	208 pages, 30 x 29.5 cm / 11.8 x 11.6 in, hardback
Illustrations:	166 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Delius Klasing Verlag GmbH (D, 2019)
ISBN:	9783667116963

Fahrzeuglexikon Trabant (erweitert Neuauflage)

In 1957, the series production of the Trabant began at the VEB Automobilwerk Zwickau. The second, expanded edition of this vehicle encyclopedia is supplemented by extensive image material and the development history of the "New Trabi".

The following types are included:
- DKW F 8
- IFA F 8
- P 70
- P 50, P 50/1, P 50 SW II, P 50/2
- P 60, P 601, P 603, P 610
- P 100
- P 1.1
- Trabant nT.

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Author:	Jürgen Lisse
Details:	208 pages, 29.5 x 23 x 2.2 cm / 11.6 x 9.1 x 0.87 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Bildverlag Böttger GbR (D, 2010)
ISBN:	9783937496344

Trabant - Alle Modelle

For over 30 years, the Trabi provided mobility for an entire country and today it evokes fond, sometimes idealized memories of past GDR times, which were not only and not always bad.

Volume of the series "Autos die noch Typen waren".

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Author:	Matthias Röcke
Details:	112 pages, 27.5 x 22 cm / 10.8 x 8.7 in, hardback
Illustrations:	200 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Heel-Verlag GmbH (D, 2011)
ISBN:	9783868523720