It's just one of those poles you use to lift a kitchen upper cabinet, or hold up plastic sheeting while doing drywall. Not a lot of strength to it. I assume it's just for the camera mount.
Hey Robert Try a few gallons of moonshine in the trunk, not only does it provide some stability but in the event of rollover a spectacular fireball for those lucky spectators. see you at the parade!
+Austin's Garage I think the Yugo would win, but the Trabant would hold together longer. Oh wow. I just calculated it, and the power to weight ratio of the two cars is not super different.
How the race would go: "Going around the second corner- the Yugo has exploded and the Trabant has been attacked by a large pig- the pig is now eating the Trabant- oh, oh, OH! The driver is using the steering system as a weapon and has chucked e engine at the pig... I've never seen anything like this!"
...That was something special with the Trabant, it's sooooo damn sturdy. As a Child, my Grandpa drove with me over fields with the Trabant, and it never broke. you will never to those things with a Golf, but that Trabant was awesome in this. The most streets in the GDR where shit, so it had to be so sturdy. My other Grandpa had a Wartburg, but that was not the same. It was the better car, but not for the country side. I just drove my Grandpas Trabant once after he died and I wanted to check, if it's allready running and it was so much fun. You drive 90km/h and you feel like flying ^^ ...
To be fair: he was possibly the only driver that used a stock configuration. Pretty sure all others had modifiend suspention and other things for this racing. East german race driver modified the engin up to ~60Hp and with propper modified running gear the car did realy well in such cross race situations.
Seeing how fantastic of a trampoline your Trabant is, it's truly perplexing that the communists didn't build them all with "double bubble" style cotton roofs to allow room for pilot & copilot helmets.
They did. Google Trabant Kübel. It was the cotton roof version for the military and agriculture. It was especially good in ruth terrain. The low weight was preventing from getting stuck in mud or sand. And if it did, the low weight alloed easy pulling. it from the mud.
I've read in a book once, that back in the days, the official factory rally team of Trabant was quite successful on big rallies. They won 2nd place on the Monte Carlo Rally in 1968, where only the local French driver was better, and also 2nd place on the München-Wien-Budapest rally in 1969, where only Porsche was faster. I couldn't find anything about this on the web, but hey, these happened decades before the internet...
Robert just rally crossed a Trabbi. Holy shit. This is one of the best things ever put on RUclips. I am sure some German, Polish, or Hungarian guy has done something like this with a Trabbi he modified specifically for rally cross. However, Robert's is totally stock. This is fucking amazing. This channel is criminally undersubscribed! Easily one of the most entertaining car channels on RUclips by far.
Man I'm impressed the Trabant survived this ride(s). My parents had an Trabant early 90s...kinda loved the smell and sound of it. Keep it as long as you can. :)
I used to stay up through the night and during that I would watch rally championships amongst other things. Your amateur field thrashing was more enjoyable and interesting! I loved your altered subtitles and the filming was great. The noise was tolerable and to be expected for the situation. Brilliant video. I’m glad you enjoyed the experience and the Trabant came out intact!
Well, I once saw a bunch of racing Trabants (200 km/h) on a tight race track and other old cars on the same track. The '68 Mustang did far worse than the Trabants. Also, I experienced them in Dresden Germany on rough cobble streets and had no chance to follow them!
@@kenwinston2245 They took out all 3 rear seats, gave the trabbi DCOE carbs and ran it on "super" fuel/oil mix, gave it whatever the hell aero they could and I think they switched the column shifter for an actual manual gearbox
Wow! This was not unimpressive at all! Holy cow!! This was better than any action movie, especially batmans. Super duper exciting! You don't even need to speak because it all comes through the lense to me the viewer. Fantastic vid! Most exciting I've watched.
As soon as you let him run free on a beautiful summer's day he will turn into a little mustang. Running around an open field, kicking up dirt and joyfully (almost) killing the rider.
This was a GREAT video, I used to club race another slow weird car, an Austin Kimberley and really, It was so much fun to Dirt circuit time trial a car that put no expectations on me.
This sounds like my interest in trying autocross (or maybe something like this) in the West German version, my '73 VW Super Beetle. I'm sure it would be quite a bit quicker and better handling, but maybe not quite as much fun. Would similarly have no concern for times or how I would compare with other cars. Especially as I have an aftermarket steering wheel, aftermarket intake and exhaust, aftermarket ECU (it was originally carbureted, so the whole fuel injection system is aftermarket), aftermarket rear sway bar, aftermarket front brakes - none of these make it that much faster - I'll be in the "Highly Modified" category going up against racecars built on 20x my budget. But who cares, it sounds fun!
Oh man, you should try rallycrossing a Lada VFTS, or just a simple Zhiguli. In the country you bought your Trabant from, rally Ladas (and actually Trabants) are a big thing. (Trabants are very light, so if you pimp up the suspension and change the engine, you get a nice little rally car.)
I just can't stop laughing at the way the Trabant bounces over those fields! And the way you have to tame it rather than drive it? I've driven cars like that. It's great! XD My nephew rolled his Morris Minor van and it landed on its wheels. I just.. I wish I'd been there. :)
How on earth did I miss this video! How does the Trabant perform now that you've rebuilt the engine? And, what kind of gas mileage does the thing get you? I can't wait for you to start posting videos again, quality entertainment!
Using Trabants for autocross has been done, people usually swap in a VW Polo 16v engine and gearbox and (obviously) do some suspension and brake mods. I saw a video of a total 360 degree rollover where the body was unscathed and they continued on the track.
Thanks for the video. I got really nostalgic because my first driving experience was with my grandpa's Trabant on a meadow in Thuringia when I was about 10 years old. But I'm sure it was a lot slower :-)
Is it ok if I use your audio? I wanted to edit a scene where the end of the world has come, earthquakes, tidal waves and the sky is falling in. I think your audio would fit perfectly. :)
I really want a Trabant now. Imagine having one Trabant that's as stock and clean as possible, another that has a snowmobile engine in it with a bunch of mods, and the last one with an original engine and a bunch of mods
"Grammar is always important"...easily the most entertaining thing I've seen all week, but my week has consisted of work and shopping for a couch so that's not hard to beat. I really wish I had been there for this, why'd the rally have to be on my mom's birthday?!
Hubert Hans My dad rolled his Trabant once in about 92 or 93... Local police helped him to roll it back on its tires, the only repairs needed where a new lamp ring and a new mirror... No other Damage (exept for a few scratches on the roof)
Seems like you are the winner of that rallye...LOL I wonder you didn´t turn the Trabi on the roof. This video really made me smile and it looks as if as you enjoyed the driving too...
@@twistedyogert well you leave Communists in control of rebuilding half of the bombed out shell of possibly the most evil country, they're not gonna be good
Trabant cross is actually a pretty popular discipline in east europe and in germany as well. Sa they are getting pretty expensive lately, it used to be a 100 dollar car.
It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow!
Thats exactly it
Ja Kooistra No truer truth was ever spoke!
@@badhorse1640 yeah push it to the limit man push it to the limit
Speed Comparer says the same thing. His is another entertaining channel
Because 60 in that thing probably feels like 200.
This is what running from the state feels like
Ha
lol until you realize the KGB has special v8 cars
@@testaccount4191 And gasoline with more than 70 octane.
*Eurobeat intensifies*
LOL
"Wrestling a bear; a massive, well a tiny communist bear"
you ever wrestle a bear it's fun I know from expirence
@@raven4k998 ok Davey Crockett
@@Cheesytarian no no no your Davey Crockett I am a leaf on the wind watch me soar
My favorite part is the jack holding up the roof incase of a rollover, also that it's a camera mount.
i was loooking for this comment
@@patti441 me too :)))
Yep. That cracked me up
Added rigidity so he could do some drifting
It's just one of those poles you use to lift a kitchen upper cabinet, or hold up plastic sheeting while doing drywall. Not a lot of strength to it. I assume it's just for the camera mount.
Hey Robert
Try a few gallons of moonshine in the trunk, not only does it provide some stability but in the event of rollover a spectacular fireball for those lucky spectators.
see you at the parade!
Coming next : I drifted my Trabant.
Yassine Saïdi waiting for that
NANI?! COMMUNIST DRIFT?!
Trabant is front wheel drive and you cant really drift a front wheel drive car
With a communist flick.
@@kukuc96 on ice rink
So now we have to do a race between the YUGO and the Trabant.
+Austin's Garage I think the Yugo would win, but the Trabant would hold together longer.
Oh wow. I just calculated it, and the power to weight ratio of the two cars is not super different.
So... it would actually be a close race. A slow race, but a close race. We need to make this happen.
How the race would go: "Going around the second corner- the Yugo has exploded and the Trabant has been attacked by a large pig- the pig is now eating the Trabant- oh, oh, OH! The driver is using the steering system as a weapon and has chucked e engine at the pig... I've never seen anything like this!"
Please make this a thing lmao
YES!! I want to see this!
...That was something special with the Trabant, it's sooooo damn sturdy. As a Child, my Grandpa drove with me over fields with the Trabant, and it never broke. you will never to those things with a Golf, but that Trabant was awesome in this. The most streets in the GDR where shit, so it had to be so sturdy. My other Grandpa had a Wartburg, but that was not the same. It was the better car, but not for the country side. I just drove my Grandpas Trabant once after he died and I wanted to check, if it's allready running and it was so much fun. You drive 90km/h and you feel like flying ^^ ...
Did you get his trabant after he died?
If so do you still ahve it?
Initial D: Soviet Rally Cross Edition
Walsinork the main character is called "Comuni Fujiwara"
*Soviet Rally Stage
Initial C (for Communism)
I can just see Jeremy Clarkson doing this, all the time shouting "POWER!"
So, my research into SCCA autocross and rallycross has led me... here. This is incredible. Big props to you for wrangling 5 laps out of that thing!
To be fair: he was possibly the only driver that used a stock configuration. Pretty sure all others had modifiend suspention and other things for this racing.
East german race driver modified the engin up to ~60Hp and with propper modified running gear the car did realy well in such cross race situations.
"I'm kicking up dirt... like a real car!!" ROFL
LOOOOOL.....-)
My favorite part is how the subtitles just stop up actually transcribing halfway through.
Grammar always matters.
Seeing how fantastic of a trampoline your Trabant is, it's truly perplexing that the communists didn't build them all with "double bubble" style cotton roofs to allow room for pilot & copilot helmets.
They did. Google Trabant Kübel. It was the cotton roof version for the military and agriculture. It was especially good in ruth terrain. The low weight was preventing from getting stuck in mud or sand. And if it did, the low weight alloed easy pulling. it from the mud.
I've read in a book once, that back in the days, the official factory rally team of Trabant was quite successful on big rallies.
They won 2nd place on the Monte Carlo Rally in 1968, where only the local French driver was better, and also 2nd place on the München-Wien-Budapest rally in 1969, where only Porsche was faster.
I couldn't find anything about this on the web, but hey, these happened decades before the internet...
1:19 "Hit rev limiter" I'm surprised that the Trabant even has one
This was awesome. I really enjoy all your episodes. You should do a project update.
Robert just rally crossed a Trabbi. Holy shit. This is one of the best things ever put on RUclips. I am sure some German, Polish, or Hungarian guy has done something like this with a Trabbi he modified specifically for rally cross. However, Robert's is totally stock. This is fucking amazing. This channel is criminally undersubscribed! Easily one of the most entertaining car channels on RUclips by far.
In the 90s this was a favorite pasttime if you were a young Hungarian living in the countryside. Especially fun during the winter!
Man I'm impressed the Trabant survived this ride(s). My parents had an Trabant early 90s...kinda loved the smell and sound of it. Keep it as long as you can. :)
"Grammar is always important".
Epic stuff man, subtitles and all. this is a RUclips classic.
I used to stay up through the night and during that I would watch rally championships amongst other things. Your amateur field thrashing was more enjoyable and interesting! I loved your altered subtitles and the filming was great. The noise was tolerable and to be expected for the situation. Brilliant video. I’m glad you enjoyed the experience and the Trabant came out intact!
“I’m kicking up dirt, it’s like it’s a real car!”
Best quote ever.
For having done that race I give you credit from East Germany.
I’m waiting for the Jeremy clarkson review on this masterpiece
I'm just getting to your older videos, and I'm enjoying them so much! Thank you!!
Well, I once saw a bunch of racing Trabants (200 km/h) on a tight race track and other old cars on the same track. The '68 Mustang did far worse than the Trabants. Also, I experienced them in Dresden Germany on rough cobble streets and had no chance to follow them!
You know that the factory in the former GDR had a rally team with souped-up Trabis?
800rs
Let me guess . . . An undernourished child driver to save weight, and hand - cranked supercharger ?
@@kenwinston2245 Is the undernourished child the one cranking the supercharger?
@@kenwinston2245 Wtf are you talking about? East Germany is not capitalist africa
@@kenwinston2245 They took out all 3 rear seats, gave the trabbi DCOE carbs and ran it on "super" fuel/oil mix, gave it whatever the hell aero they could and I think they switched the column shifter for an actual manual gearbox
Greetings from the GDR! This (and all the other videos) made me grin the whole time... Hope this old lady will have a long good time in the USA! :D
Can you make a shirt with: "...because I have a Tarbant and I want it!" On it?
I hear yakkety sax music in my head, and am waiting for the clowns to come piling out when you stop 😂 thankyou for brightening my day
even if you had rolled, you were going so slow and the Trabant is so light you would've been fine.
Really? That roof doesn't look very strong, and that seatbelt should be ashamed calling itself a seatbelt.
It's made out of c o t o n
@@Martin-jc8kk Yeah, c o t t o n
That's what made the damn things so light.
You are having far too much fun. Loved it.
This is one of the most underrated videos and channels on you tube...
Ear to ear grin the whole time
The Trabant was regularly used for ralley by the GDR. Great little car.
still used
Good video. Surprised you would take a chance on rollin the old girl. Glad u didnt !
Well, it is, after all, a car that is almost forty years old.....
Wow! This was not unimpressive at all! Holy cow!! This was better than any action movie, especially batmans. Super duper exciting! You don't even need to speak because it all comes through the lense to me the viewer. Fantastic vid! Most exciting I've watched.
PMSL, it's like watching a terrier taking part in a greyhound race! :-P
I learned driving on a Trabant (being East German, really the only Option) and we did this for fun with crappy old P50s.
As soon as you let him run free on a beautiful summer's day he will turn into a little mustang. Running around an open field, kicking up dirt and joyfully (almost) killing the rider.
This was a GREAT video, I used to club race another slow weird car, an Austin Kimberley and really, It was so much fun to Dirt circuit time trial a car that put no expectations on me.
This sounds like my interest in trying autocross (or maybe something like this) in the West German version, my '73 VW Super Beetle. I'm sure it would be quite a bit quicker and better handling, but maybe not quite as much fun. Would similarly have no concern for times or how I would compare with other cars. Especially as I have an aftermarket steering wheel, aftermarket intake and exhaust, aftermarket ECU (it was originally carbureted, so the whole fuel injection system is aftermarket), aftermarket rear sway bar, aftermarket front brakes - none of these make it that much faster - I'll be in the "Highly Modified" category going up against racecars built on 20x my budget. But who cares, it sounds fun!
I LIKE your style, sir.
And the Trabant rally video was a blast.
Thank you for this.
I saw a Saab 96 on the road yesterday, and you are the only reason I knew what it was. Thank you.
Is it weird THIS is my favorite car of all time and I want one?
I'm in Canada and the only one I could find for sale was one in Russia. I'm so tempted lol.
I’m five years late but I’d say, no not really.
Most of me was glad you had fun and completed the run safely. But the rest of me is disappointed you didn't do careening into that Porta-Potty.
You should do it in the snow. It's even more fun.
This is the best car related video on RUclips.
Oh man, you should try rallycrossing a Lada VFTS, or just a simple Zhiguli. In the country you bought your Trabant from, rally Ladas (and actually Trabants) are a big thing. (Trabants are very light, so if you pimp up the suspension and change the engine, you get a nice little rally car.)
To think that he was probably going 15 MPH the entire time lol
it's not about the speed, but the challenge of making it to the finish line in one piece
"Oh that poor car's headlight came out, I wonder what's falling apart on my car, I haven't even checked yet."
this is so charming
I just can't stop laughing at the way the Trabant bounces over those fields! And the way you have to tame it rather than drive it? I've driven cars like that. It's great! XD
My nephew rolled his Morris Minor van and it landed on its wheels. I just.. I wish I'd been there. :)
You should get a Wartburg too
Robert: "Grammar doesn't matter right now"
Subtitles: "Grammar always matters"
How on earth did I miss this video! How does the Trabant perform now that you've rebuilt the engine? And, what kind of gas mileage does the thing get you? I can't wait for you to start posting videos again, quality entertainment!
I'm amazed that the car came out in one peice.
I tought the Trabants center of mass is very down, and that helps not to roll over.
Yes. The Trabant does easy moose test at 72 kmh (45 mph) -- when Mercedes A Class and Dodge Caravan are rolled over at 48 kmh (30mph)
Using Trabants for autocross has been done, people usually swap in a VW Polo 16v engine and gearbox and (obviously) do some suspension and brake mods. I saw a video of a total 360 degree rollover where the body was unscathed and they continued on the track.
In that video where the Trabant rolls over it has the original motor( you can hear its 2 strokes).
Awesome video man, and the audio wasn't too bad at all.
These cars are so underrated
Going back and watching this again, this is probably why the driver’s seat broke.
Much fun was had by all of watching this video! We need more Trabant videos! :-)
Well, a Rally is indeed something where the Trabant was quite good at....
Thanks for the video. I got really nostalgic because my first driving experience was with my grandpa's Trabant on a meadow in Thuringia when I was about 10 years old. But I'm sure it was a lot slower :-)
American spy escaping East Germany on dirt roads, 1985 (colorized)
Is it ok if I use your audio? I wanted to edit a scene where the end of the world has come, earthquakes, tidal waves and the sky is falling in. I think your audio would fit perfectly. :)
I really want a Trabant now. Imagine having one Trabant that's as stock and clean as possible, another that has a snowmobile engine in it with a bunch of mods, and the last one with an original engine and a bunch of mods
Your concentration on driving is just incredible...LOL Looks like the Trabi needs an automatic transmission...LOL
"Grammar is always important"...easily the most entertaining thing I've seen all week, but my week has consisted of work and shopping for a couch so that's not hard to beat. I really wish I had been there for this, why'd the rally have to be on my mom's birthday?!
There's another one on August 12th. Bring your F-150 (It's allowed. I asked)
Still faster than my Sidekick...
That looked like a whole lot of (masochistic) fun! You have to regard a Trabbi with a sense of humour. Thanks.
loved it! Simply heart warming
This was hilarious to watch - great video
You can't help but to love the little car.
I like the position of the portajohn. Direct line target from the finish line!
Looks like 100mph in this.
Dad had one in early 80s.
That looks so much in a Trabant!
Not related to the video, but are there any good German importers (to the US)? I really want one of these.
Get the four stroke version from early 1990's. It has 1.1 liter VW engine. No problems.
Here's a starting point to read, if you'd like to have one in the US:
trabantusa.yolasite.com/importing-trabants.php
Where's the fun in that?
@@joeymoldano6246 That's not the same.
This looks so fun! I hope I can rally cross my beetle one day too!
This perfectly summarises why old, frankly trash cars are much better than today's perfect, smooth cars.
Cool ! This would make a good audition post to be an Uber driver.
Great video. Having fun in a car, and using it.
Bravo!
It's like saturday afternoon in 90s east germany.
I love those little underpowered/slow cars!
On the next episode of Proper Top Gear. AG Rally’s a Trabant!
this guy's channel should be called "doug demurro but with dad jeans"
Thanks for the smile. Glad you survived.
"I think I'll take a different car, next time"
TAKE THE WHEEGO
If he's dead he can't do more videos.
How much damage was caused to that poor Trabi?
No damage was sustained which is good because I just did a bunch of fixes to it
Hubert Hans My dad rolled his Trabant once in about 92 or 93... Local police helped him to roll it back on its tires, the only repairs needed where a new lamp ring and a new mirror... No other Damage (exept for a few scratches on the roof)
It can happen. But its not as likely as it may seem.
You can roll it back back with two people. :)
Harkin Labs Gaming communist made it it wont break
Well, you just need some glue and cardboard to repair the Trabbi anyway.
Soooo, Where does an Arkansaw man find such a performance built vehicle? Thanks for sharing this with us.
Wow that looked so fun! The only reason it survived that ordeal was because of it's tough leaf springs :)
This was really fun to watch, he had a lot of fun.
Seems like you are the winner of that rallye...LOL I wonder you didn´t turn the Trabi on the roof. This video really made me smile and it looks as if as you enjoyed the driving too...
In east Germany when this car was new, this was just driving to the store.
The roads were really that bad?
@@twistedyogert well you leave Communists in control of rebuilding half of the bombed out shell of possibly the most evil country, they're not gonna be good
Trabant cross is actually a pretty popular discipline in east europe and in germany as well. Sa they are getting pretty expensive lately, it used to be a 100 dollar car.
That audio is pure meme quality :D
I'm so glad you were wearing a helmet for this, you were probably going to get a concussion from all the bouncing. 😂
It's impressive that it didn't get stuck in the deep mud.