What happens when you take a Communist car to Missouri?
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Robert ( / agingwheels ) was searching for the perfect proletariat transport and he found it in a Trabant. Missouri wasn't ready for it though.
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“Carbon fiber?” ‘Taps roof’. this baby’s *cotton fiber*
*slaps roof* *roof collapses*
"carbon fiber?" 'nuzzles roof'. "This baby's Comfy Fiber".
@@drip3520 no
@@drip3520 yes
Lmaoo.
"The Trabant passed." ...... "Why?" - literally me when anything good happens to one of my cars.
We have a yearly m.o.t. test in the uk for cars that are 4 or more years old. You're not allowed any warning lights to be on (abs, engine check light etc etc) sooooooo I covered them on an old car I had with black insulation tape and took the car in to get inspected during the evening, winter time and low and behold.... it passed... two years in a row
I had the same issue with my first manual car, we have such idiotic emissions in this state and couldn't get it to pass when I bought it and after lot of arguing I came back the next day after resetting some lights I was shocked when they handed me a paper that said it passed
Since I've gotten my Jetta TDI's emissions fixed under the recall, The emissions stations for Arizona DMV haven't been able to figure out how to disable traction control to test it. The last two years, they've just waved me through. (Kind of frustrating, because I want to see how the fix performs.)
@@piewackete As long as the issue that caused the OBD warning lights is cleared, just clearing the OBD is fine. It's when you have something, like a faulty O2 sensor, that keeps raising errors that is going to keep your car from passing.
Jack Linde mine had a CEL for secondary air problem or something like that, I cleaned the throttle body and a few other things but it kept getting rejected saying monitors not ready. even after driving it every day for 3 weeks it still wouldn't test but finally it decided to pass. I still think emissions is the biggest scam and the proof is if you do 500 worth of repairs (at a Indiana approved emissions repair place that of course costs a ton more than reg shops) and still fail you can get a waiver and get your plates....Soo a car that supposedly is Soo polluting that even after 500 worth of work it still fails as long as you pay for the waiver you get your plates
Cotton Fiber is the new Carbon Fiber
Clearly.
Old*
New*
@@neeravreddy9360 *new
no carbon fiber is the new cotton fiber
Never expected an entertaining car story about a Trabant, but here you go! Thanks for coming by Robert. Be safe out there!
VINwiki fuck yeah! Ya got the dunn again
I know the million dollar sports car stories are the primary draw for this channel, BUT, it's stories of these oddball vehicles from people like Robert that are really interesting for me. I'd like to have Robert as a friend. If nothing else, so I can call on him to come pick me up in one of his oddball cars.
Also, You still need to get Steve Lehto on this channel.
this is so excellent as i'd found AgingWheels a while ago, crossover videos are the best of both worlds, TY for hosting this!
Definitely worth a visit to the channel, if not just to see the inner workings of a two stroke, rotary valve, carburated.
@ Ryan uninteresting, unsettling? $1k of parts for that car is a LOT, he's really been through it to make it roadworthy, he's "doing it right"
another Mr Bean out puttering along is much safer then an overconfident wannabe training their lack of skills around innocent people.
If a water cooled engine cools its water with air, isn't it just an overcomplicated air cooled engine?
i cruise at mach 0.04
Autotempest audio echo ;)
I took Trabant's bigger brother Wartburg on road trip from EU to Mongolia and back. Let me know if you ever want to hear about that. Look up: Wartburger Kings :)
He's since figured out that there weren't any holes in the cylinders. It turned out the exhaust manifold was on the verge of falling off because it was so loose.
I’m glad someone said this, I’ve watched the whole rebuild. Damn that piston ring!
fuck you he is a perfect king
Come to Michigan, no safety/emissions testing. Basically give them their sales tax money and anything goes.
They're working on making a similar law in Missouri as well
That explains why everything driving near me looks like it's gonna explode. I'll take PA safety inspections any day of the week. (Standards are pretty low so if you fail....)
the cache is you have to live in Michigan
How God intended us to drive!
@@El_Chompo it's an amazing state, I'm not sure what you're on. You must be from Ohio
Glad he's semi-retired it, since it's now much harder to get spare parts for East German cars after Toys 'R Us closed down.
hahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha
Thankfully, there's still Dollar Mart.
hahahaha oh shit
He has a RUclips channel and just rebuilt the engine
@@twistedtony82 And now it runs excellent!
Robert certainly has fascinating taste in cars. Glad he finally got it titled, registered, and confirmed not to be a stolen Taurus.
SO... you admit its now registered as a TAUNUS?
Ed you gotta get the guy who rescued people from the California wildfires in his toyota on this channel. That truck looked CRISPY at the end.
The reason why it was 3k cos the car costs 100 USD in Eastern Europe, and the shipping from Hungary to USA was 2900 USD.
Yeah, exactly xd
Here where I live there's a Trabi just sitting on a field since 2012. Nobody cares about it
I wonder how many of these you could get in a 40 foot container??
3000 dollars?
If anyone wondering you can buy a functional Trabant starting from 200 dollars in Hungary.
$3000 is probably including shipping. Doesn't matter how worthless it is, shipping heavy large objects half way across the world is always gonna cost a shit ton.
@@superkirk11 You could just drive it back.
@@kivala51 I always drive my Trabant across the Atlantic when I vaca in europe
In Trabant it is possible, all you need are some oars.
How much to export/import into states
Haven't been this early since Rabbit was married to that first wife. Bless her heart...
that is early!
LOL
Inspector: Good news your car past the inspection.
Owner: Why?
Kudos to this guy for keeping a piece of history alive. 🤘
where I live, people are daily driving these and they go for like €150. it would be an irresponsible thing to do, but I really want to get one
+ProPolice
Let me guess, Hungary? Because where I live Trabants were popular cheap cars back in the 70's and 80's, and went for less than scrap in the 90's if you wanted to buy one, howerver nowdays if you want one it's gonna set you back like 2000 euro at least.
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge almost all of the 2 strokes are out of commission now in Hungary. These days 90's sht cars fill the bottom of the car market here.
+Gábor Tóth
Sad to hear.
Can confirm that Missouri "Safety" inspections are generally a "If it drove in, it can probably drive out and it's good to go" type of thing...Cars in St Louis area comment was spot on.
"You couldn't see the blinkers, even if all the lights were off and the sun was blocked out by a Dyson Sphere" - someone know his sci-fi 😂
Is his mechanic a Scot??? ;)
Somebody needs to build a v2 rocket to sent a trabant into orbit in ksp. 😁
2:28 the way he so nonchalantly drops that metaphor is pure nerd gold
My fellow Missourian and spam buddy. A collab with VINwiki, Tavarish, and now VINwiki again? You're on a roll. If you follow Aging Wheels, Robert finds out the cylinders do not have holes in them.
Automisery
He's been on here before.
@@hurricaneheli79 Corrected.
My father was stationed in Berlin in the 80's. I still remember going to East Berlin in our 84 K-car station wagon. The locals looked at our car like it was a spaceship! It really stood out in a sea of Trabants.
It is "fun" when you have a short VIN number - I had the same "fun" with a very original Model A a few years back. Enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting.
I had the same fun with a triumph spitfire
@@TravisFabel Never done it, but I've often considered buying a Spitfire, TR 6, or even an Austin Healey 3000. But I'm pretty happy with a little Miata that I consider to be a "British car that actually works." LOL ;)
I had the same with my imported Japanese Toyota MR2. The VIN is much shorter than those of the European ones and it totally tripped our DMV up.
They were like: "That is not a VIN."
EXCUSE ME?
Aging Wheels! I love that Guy videos :D
He is awesome. His video with Freddy's 355 was just brilliant.
Ahhh this makes me so happy. He's the first car channel I got into and then came here from there. I didn't know they had Robert over to vinwiki, so this was an amazing surprise. Him, Austin, Doug T and Ed are my favorite parts of car RUclips.
I'm glad to see other people appreciating them.
This man's channel is so underrated he deserves so much more of an audience.
It's all fun and games till you're driving along in your Trabant and a pheasant hits the windshield.
The rear windshield.
I'm kinda sad tbh. There's a savable Trabant Cabrio rotting away in a forest like 1km away from our house. The owner of the car is our landlord. He has a bunch of stuff rotting in a field, ranging from tractors to vans. I might ask the guy if I can but it from him.
Steal it.
That is the most acurate description of Missouri i have ever seen
I'ved been subbed to Robert for such a long time, never thought I'd see him on the VINwiki show! Such a small world.
I live in former east germany. And i had the hounur to take a roadtrip through the USA. Its a beautiful country. I went to the National Parks and enjoyed life. One day i saw it. A Trabant on a gasstation befor bryce canyon. We were really happy and amazed to see one in the USA.
P.s. Eastgermany did make quite many cars. The Barkas, The EMW, Wartburg, Trabant....
Love your vids.
I'm so glad you got to that region in Utah!! My favourite stretch of the country!
I enjoyed my time in the eastern half of Berlin 20 years ago, was very enriching. Glück auf!
It's not fair that this guy has a communist car and I don't have one.
It should be our car
You didn't earn a Trabant....oh wait.
Theres no earn in trabant it is our car.
But you have other things.... like food.
yes that capitalism is working out great isnt it?
Last time I was this early, the stick G35 owner's boyfriend's license was still valid.
7:40 Shrewd negociation starts with *BETTER SOUND QUALITY* 😂
Hungarian license plate, Nice !! :)
bojler eladó
I think this is the most entertaining VINWIki interview I've seen thus far. It made me genuinely laugh in SEVERAL spots. I really love the way he tells his stories. Great guy. Even a little better than Rabbit's Sterling Marlin experience xD.
The Lane Motor Museum in Nashville has a great collection of Tatra cars from all vintages. Probably the biggest collection of Tatras in the USA. Definitely worth killing an afternoon there if you are ever in Nashville.
Oh, one guy at the company where I am working (Europe) is from Nashville, I might mention him to take a peek inside if he is ever at home
*Soviet National Anthem intensifies*
Put a engine Hyabusa in it
More like "Auferstanden aus Ruinen".
@271828 Which wasn't a part of the Soviet union?
@@ormlyrucket8993 Nice googling.
It was soviet occupied territory before anything, a result of Sovjets shared winnings over Nazi-Germany and invading Berlin at the same moment US did.
It's fall was closely linked to Gorbachevs Perestrojka and eventual dissolving of the USSR.
@Bruno Kunda having lived during it's time and feeling how the world worked i would say that GDR after some time technically was independent, practically it was a Soviet satellite state.
Ask the people who experienced it.
@Bruno Kunda At the time east and west was different countries with different economies, today it is part of Germany but i wouldn't call this a German car.
This was a great video, definitely want to see more of Robert on here!
This guy has the true potential to be a big RUclipsr. He has wit, intelligence, and great social skills.
The only car video ever with mention of a Dyson Sphere. HAHAHA ^5 man
You da man Robert! While other youtubers are competing to have the craziest supercar, he's got the weirdest off the wall stuff I've never even heard of. At first I thought it would be lame but I find myself fascinated by it, the disassembly of the Trabant engine was a good watch.
6:20 - That 1/4 mile run was hilarious!!!!
I thought when you said it passed that was the funniest highlight of the video. I was wrong. It was the car on the drag strip that made me drop my phone from laughing so hard. Lol
Robert Rutherford - I would love to know the et for that run but it’s possible that he hasn’t reached the finish line yet.
The safety inspections in Missouri sounds about as thorough as the " Salvage vehicle inspections in SC" ( When we had them) . If you showed up in the morning with a box of doughnuts . They may would peek out the window to see if the car was at least somewhat one color and pass it without moving from their office chair. lol .
Trabant is the BEST with Lada, Wartbutg and Skoda felicia 1960. Look at the Skoda, is a beautiful car.
People from Czech know how to build cars and trucks. There's Skoda, Tatra and there was Praga. We had many of them in the former GDR.
@@Innochamp I know. I live in CZ.
You mean *our* Trabant
Wonderful audio on the autotempest ad rofl...recorded In a high school locker room 🤣
The communist then realizes that there are much bigger cars out there in the world
Im pretty sure this was the communist answer to West Germany's sucess of the Beetle.
Have you ever seen a UAZ? Or better, a MAZ
@@paveldaman1820 UAZ are still made today and still look the same. Old but good and nearly undestructable like all the old Soviet technik.
What is the benefit of a bigger car if the car you have can do what you bought it for? They were communists not capitalists, having possessions you'd never use and "bigger is better" didn't mean anything to them, even though we in the west constantly tried to poison their way of thinking just so we could sell them big things they would never use...
....ooooooohhhhh yes....the good old "East-Volkswagen" I remember my one and only trip with a Trabant in 1993.....and the nice shifting with the "freerun"> "Freilauf" in the 4th gear when you let him roll.... :D
As soon as I saw the title and the thumbnail, I knew immediately it was Aging Wheels. Love his channel!
i like how the video has perfectly good acoustics and 7:43 it jumps to a garage captured whit a camera an mic from the late 80s
In Germany we call it "Rennpappe" which translates to "cardboard racer" 😂
Another great video from VINwiki!
Thanks!
Yes the beautiful East German machine is on VINWiki stories!
I had Trabant for about 2 years. Great car, considering. However, mine was 1991 with VW Polo engine (1.1 I4). It was flying. Keep in mind, for early 2000's this car was quick for its class/size due to the weight/power ratio.
I am still hoping I can bring it to the US...
This guy is my people
Wait a damn minute. I'm a licensed safety & emissions inspector in Missouri. Driving the car is never part of the test. We check the brakes for leaks, check the pad thickness, and that's about it for brakes. The only time we drive it is after a repair to set monitors for emissions testing.
I talked to Robert for a while at Cars and Coffee once. I think this was before he was on RUclips, and definitely before Doug reviewed the Trabant. Anyway, cool guy, and he really does know EVERYTHING there is to know about these cars
Before my grandpa died, he switched his allegiance to the communist party. Only so that when he died, so did a communist.
Poetic.
@@ormlyrucket8993 like communism, you're wrong.
@@EdBolian like capitalism, you're right.
@@maddogmattis4713 Capitalism has it's own problems.... Like obesity.
Savage
I cannot see these cars without being reminded of the running gag in "Black Cat White Cat" in which an abandoned Trabant is steadily eaten by a pig throughout the course of the movie.
Would love for them to go back and talk to Robert about the Trabant again. He has it running right and the engine and gearbox working like they are new.
"I've put a lot of work into this piece of crap because that's what i like to do" I feel you dog
From St. Louis area and can confirm, safety inspections are easy, got an 87 VW Jetta slammed on cut springs running on 2 or 3 cylinders to pass first try a couple years ago. The inspection is very specific and rather easy to work around
Shout out to Aging Wheels. I just love how the man has no idea what he's doing, but he learns along the way.
We had a Trabant Kombi (stationwagon) 25 years ago. It's smell was so unique and one day it broke down at a roads intersection and my dad had to slide it off the road. Good times!
The last time I was this early, Rabbit was parking in the nice old lady's garage during school!
I love the aging wheels channel this is awesome!
The first left hand drive car I drove was a Trabant, in east Berlin, while I was mostly still drunk from the night before. After a bit of practice I got quite good at spinning the wheels on the damp Berlin roads. That was a fun stag do.
love this guys channel. so underrated.
I'd drive the car around in Nebraska!
we have NO inspections!
the only thing that the DMV checks is the VIN number if you get a vehicle from outta state
Would be cool in Brighton Beach, NY community! Thanks for sharing hilarious story!
You need to group all his videos into a playlist! And I know the people who run this channel got a chance behind his Reliant Robin
Nice Story, you're the coolest american on RUclips because of the trabant :D greetings from a german trabant-owner!
To even suggest a f***ing Trabant is better than Wartburg sends me into a fit of rage!!
*angrily slams his Moskwich's driver side door *
No one buys a Trabant (or a Yugo) by accident. That being said, this was very entertaining!
My buddy got his Pontiac Fiero inspected in Missouri, It had dry rotted tires, the break light in the rear window was gone... oh yeah and it wouldn't start. Passed.
Obviously not every shop will pass them like that, but you'd be surprised what will pass depending on where you take it.
Robert, You have my sympathy...I stepped in some Trabant once and it took forever to get it off my shoes... 😜
Didn’t think my state and city would come up in a VINwiki title
Gotta love Aging Wheels! He's the reason I even knew the Trabant existed in the first place. Through all of their awfulness though, I am strangely drawn to these cars and kinda want one for myself.
they have the look of a eastern german Mini.
And right after he gets talking about the cars cost we see Ed talking about shrewd negotiation...lmfao.
This man has cars in his living room. This is my motivation.
This is the most beautiful car ever shown on VINwiki.
Trabant 601 the car equivalent to the movie The Room
I had one of these back in hungary. 1996-97...and your trabi has a hungarian plate on ....thats awesome...
put a rotary in it!
Honestly love these things. A local guy has a trabant wagon with some sort of Diesel engine in it. Things sick. I’d love one with like a k series swap or maybe a 20v blacktop. Ultimate sleeper!
My dad used to have a z28 maro that was used on the track and couldn’t pass an inspection anywhere near houston. Drove it a couple hours north to the middle of nowhere in yeeyee and for 20 extra dollars the inspection consisted of “ do your turn signals “ “ step on the breaks “ “ flash your headlights “ “ honk your horn “ boom a car that we couldn’t get to pass an inspection for over a year got a new sticker 😂
I love the channel but I have to ask that you guys please equalize your audio between cuts... Midway through this he changes volume drastically and it's very noticeable on a TV... And then at the end it said a completely different level as well.. otherwise I definitely cannot complain. Keep up the good work and keep the car stories coming!
In VA they don't drive your car at all. There's a checklist of items they check like lights, wheels, tires, horn, etc, then you're good to go. However, the real hoopties you see are all in Maryland because they don't require any annual inspections, only when you first register the vehicle.
It's not worth five grand to a shrewd negotiator. Trabant for 2019 cannonball!
Wow, you have a Trabant that's certified and on the road? While I saw many of them years ago in Eastern Europe, especially in former East Germany, I've only ever seen one here on this side of the Atlantic. It's on display at the RM Classics car museum near Chatham, Ontario.
Greetings from Berlin. A little story a teacher of mine told me :
She went with her Trabant to a lakeside for a beach afternoon.
Since she forgot to pull the handbrake properly, and there was some incline, the Trabant was in the water even before her.
But it did not dive; in fact, since it is mostly made of cotton fiber, it floated.
She realised she had a chance of saving it, took a plunge after it, and pulled it back by gripping the bumper.
after she had it back on dry land, the carbs and engine were flooded.
Guess what, she cleaned the carbs at that site, same as changing the head gasket just to be sure. piece of cake with a simple 2-stroke.
Went home like nothing happened.
Jokes on the Trabant as much as you want, but it is pretty reliable once you get used to the usual service for 2-strokes.
I miss the lively sound of these little oily stinkers. They become very rare these days, even in east germany.
Watching from St.Louis!!
Here in VA you can get a safety inspection done at any licensed shop for a couple hundred bucks and they'll never even look at it.
As someone who works at a DMV in Missouri, this story was hilarious! Glad you got it worked out but the safety inspection requirement was a little inaccurate unless you were planning on registering the car.
He was. And has.
5:30 Exactly. I live in St. Louis and I see people like that all the time.
Drive I70 from downtown to Lambert Airport or anywhere on I170/270...America's version of a Russian RUclips dashcam video!
Love this guys videos
I live in Missouri and I've never had a vehicle taken for a drive in a safety inspection
Here in Canada, we don't have emissions, or inspections unless you brought the vehicle in from another province (State for u Americans). So I pulled a 95 Jetta TDI out of a field, plated it, drove it, fixed it up a little, until I had a break caliper come off, parked it and sold it breaking even. It would have NEVER passed inspections, but it was in province and has been played before so it was fine.
A safety isn’t needed to title a vehicle in Missouri. A simple ID/OD would suffice.
Also, those haggard vehicles you referred to in the city of St. Louis, they probably aren’t licensed. Or insured. Or road worthy. But hey, slap a plate on it and go seems to be good enough.
Everything he said about Missouri is true 😂 from the cracked windshield to the bumper. Spot. On.
Ed's booming voice echoing during the ad 😆
There was a 2nd Trabant in the STL...the now defunct Kemp Motor Museum
(now a Tesla store) had a 1976 in yellow/black in their building. (by far the
cheapest German car they had)
i love the older trabants, those look so good.
2 stroke engines are supposedly super cheap and easy to fully restore. There are about 3 moving parts that can even be replaced. Motocross racers will rebuild their engine between races because its so easy, might as well have a brand new piston ring for full compression every single race.