Advertising 1990 Trabant 1.1 (as 601 S)Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2015-07-12 15:04 |
Looks like 1984+ with 1.1 wheels. - Link to "henrycavill.org" |
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◊ 2015-07-12 15:41 |
That's a pretty big but not that visible anachronism, since the film is supposed to take place in 1963, so I've read. |
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◊ 2015-07-15 20:52 |
In fact it's very very big anachronism, the model 601 is from 1965. The actual Trabant for the 1963 looks like this one - /vehicle_354723-Trabant-600-P60-1963.html |
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◊ 2015-07-17 18:11 |
Who has posted the role? This movie has not been released yet, and we should wait to put this information! |
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◊ 2015-08-18 19:22 |
Whoever posted it was right. 3 stars indeed, plus other similar ones in the background. This one is used in a chase scene. I had never seen a drifting Trabant before... Also, the scene takes place in the 60's, so this 1984 unit is an anachronism. |
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◊ 2015-11-16 20:12 |
Quote "TG: The cars from the Berlin scenes aren’t quite so glamorous… AK: Trabants were pretty much all you had in East Berlin at that time. Trabants and Wartbergs. We didn’t know how many would be around today, but they all came out the woodwork. They were all barnyard farms, those things. Heaps of rust, falling apart, old smoky nasties. All the chrome and rubber was gone, handles were sent away to be rechromed. We had to source new motors for the windscreen wipers. Roof lining, new trim. Those cars were all put together again. TG: Did they need a bit of… updating? AK: The engines in the Trabants were awful, like sowing machines. So we replaced them with Polo engines, 1.4s. We put Volvo engines in the Wartbergs. We unbolted the body from the chassis, and built a row of new chassis. We put new suspension on. We had to put a tunnel through the centre of the car to make it rear-wheel drive. When we got them they were pieces of s***. After we’d done all our work, I looked at them and thought, ‘What a fantastic job I have.’ It was so great to see that transition. TG: So you’ve got a fleet of the best-driving Wartbergs in the world? AK: For sure. The Wartbergs did fly. And the Trabant. They both drove really well. Hydraulic handbrake? Rear-wheel drive? You could really get the back out round corners…" - Link to "www.topgear.com" And someone never learned how to spell Wartburg .... |
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◊ 2015-11-16 20:14 |
Also "“To get the vehicles drifting, we also ended up building two rear-drive Trabants with Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle engines, and they were pretty much like bullets. They were ridiculously fast.” - Link to "www.telegraph.co.uk" |
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◊ 2015-11-16 20:14 |
Trabant didn't rust as they were make out of garbage instead of steel |
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◊ 2015-11-17 16:58 |
It's not a 601. It's 1989+ 1.1 made to look like one. You just have to change: - the hood (bonnet) - front and rear bumper - tail lights They even hid the fuel filler flap on the rear right side fender. Good work. The rest is nearly identical between a 601 and 1.1 Differences: The bolt circle on the wheels is smaller than on a 601. On picture 7 at henrycavill.org/en/media-gallery/images/films/man-from-uncle/item/836-filming-at-the-historic-dockyard-chatham#prettyPhoto you can see the dashboard from a 1.1 with a bigger housing for the instruments. The 601 just had a speedometer and therefore a smaller housing. Off topic: My brother made the same modifications when he owned his 1.1. Always surprising for others, when a Trabant kept up with them at 140+ km/h .gif ":)") -- Last edit: 2015-11-17 17:02:23 |
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◊ 2021-01-23 11:29 |
And that's why it looks old but sounds 4-stroke. |
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