Street View Classic Cars: Trabant 601

A collection of classic cars seen in use on Street View.

The intention is eventually list all pre 1975 cars seen on Street View, not just exotica.
If you find a pre 1975 car on Street View please send the details using the submission form in the column on the right.
Cars must be on the road or in another public place - please, no cars in gardens or private driveways.
Click on the "coordinates" link for each car to see the original Street View - but please note that the image may no longer be on the Streetview Database.

Trabant 601

Trabant 601

Coordinates 61.4979658,23.8331556

Picture dated July 2009

The Trabant 601 was the third generation of the Trabant, built from 1963 to 1990.

With hindsight it can be considered East Germany's response to West Germany's 'Peoples Car', the VW Beetle. Its purpose was to provide a cheap but still reliable car that was very affordable and also easy to repair and maintain. The main letdown was the pre-war DKW based engine that was competitive when launched, but from the late 1950s into the 1960s, small economy cars in western countries that used two-stroke engines were replaced with cleaner and more efficient four-stroke engines. Two-stroke engines of this sort, with crankcase scavenging and lubricating oil provided during fuel intake, burn their lubricating oil by design and produce smoky tailpipe emissions.

2,818,547 Trabant 601s were produced overall and it was the most common vehicle in former East Germany.

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