Background-Info: In GDR times, when you finally could buy a new Car after 10 years of waiting, you wanted to keep its value as long as possible. Often the weekends were dedicated to this efford. Here a new, proud car-owner is preparing his new Trabant 601 for a undercarriage coating and cavity sealing. For that he attached a mobile tilting mechanism on both the wheel bolts and the underframe and finally tipped the 615 kg heavy "Trabi". This saved him a ramp or a hydraulic hoist…
Photo was taken in 1986 with a PRAKTICA B 200 & 135/2,8 on B/W-negative film ORWO NP27 (hand proof). Thanks for the translation to Holger Gersten (Berlin)
Background-Info: In GDR times, when you finally could buy a new Car after 10 years of waiting, you wanted to keep its value as long as possible. Often the weekends were dedicated to this efford. Here a new, proud car-owner is preparing his new Trabant 601 for a undercarriage coating and cavity sealing. For that he attached a mobile tilting mechanism on both the wheel bolts and the underframe and finally tipped the 615 kg heavy "Trabi". This saved him a ramp or a hydraulic hoist…
