etching nicknames like the spark plug with a roof and the racing cardboard known for being on the pilot slow and good good quality. because it became an i conic symbol of east germany, other german democratic republic. a country that described itself as a socialist state. it is remembered as a field experiment in communism where secrets abounded surveillance was on the present and freedom was severely 30th. and re stepping out of line could have dire consequences. if it's here that the chevy is, its formerly known began rolling off factory lines in the fifty's giving or did the citizens a degree of independence under depressive. judging even on to be a good pick. with a 2 stroke motor and a body made of cotton type of phonology seen come pacifically, due real task, the tro bond with something of an automotive oddity. but it is because the bill to the berlin wall,

it's quirks. and faults have since had per pallet code status. how could it costs from a country that no longer exists, done into an international phenomenon in the join us in a do any to try and piece together why a call $1.00 source call and is now looked upon with the fiction and sometimes people, ocean. this is the story of the chubby, the

there was a time when cause like this dominated the east german city escape the trip on fox, the fine line between automotive lemon and caught his car. charge was followed by a tiny to stroke more the bed with smelly and noisy, but for the people of east germany, it allowed the possibility of mobility and gave them a sense of freedom in a country that was otherwise the videos of the restriction of the trip on to the same, the magic of east germany much maligned and ridiculous, but the would only begin looking at the fund lee when the berlin wall fell on the 9th of november 1989 as chubby after travelling across stoba from the east to the west. the cookie got attracted to as an applause from the gathered crowds, best began its trans permission from an outdated automobile to a symbol of billions and hope for the people looked east germany. and one woman had the idea of immortalizing that moment for all of posterity. vig kinda

spending for job and breaking through the wall is now part of them, usually unbuttons, a side gallery, the longest surviving stretch of the wall. the odd is to so proved a little more use of then how highly instagram work abroad my search. but kinda took me to a remote beach and pointed to the months later on in spend where the otherwise building these defends, how windows creating what she calls her east storm gallery. although her beloved noodle is never far from her thoughts so much to me, the chevy was always a symbol of freedom. even in the g d, off the the can do, do i have been to doing jiu and move to berlin? in 1983, it was bid that she 1st encountered the war. let's leave it on beach and suddenly i found myself standing in front of the world. and i realized this will seem to go on forever. obviously

a good bar across the street and stood right in front of it. and i want to look at as far as i could go. and it was that the success dreamt of painting the light in 1989, shortly before the wall fell, big bought himself a trap on deluxe. the very same one she later painted on the mueller and as with many east, germans owning and driving. because a liberating experience copy, it was a wonderful feeling with the company i had the feeling of freedom and it was the tiny to stroke that led her to produce the work for which she's best known today. as the 5 when the world. so i read the newspaper article about how all just from all over the world with being invited to pain, told me, and i dropped everything. when i put my paid supplies into my chubby and drove straight to the world, isaac time to come, i chose to change only on 3 sections because i wanted people driving past to immediately get my painting and wanted to express it and think, wow, freedom,

quite high to big it has fond memories of her chubby. she certainly wouldn't trade her. jimmy, for one know of out alone is the car was a matter of i have, i was about to my experience when driving a try be long distances, you'd end up with a headache them on by the spectrum throughout the type of animal. now the seats were really uncomfortable, and besides the seat back was to show and there wasn't always headrests in every column. so yes, that was several things that one really was holding onto. i miss your highest. and so the outline and the big like many of those in east jeremy didn't hang on to head try be home usually will certainly contribute it to the cause trans permission from automotive lemon to both go to a darling you do is 1991 album optimum baby feature, the chevy, painted by building b street, disappeared in wire. and that was the movie. good chevy go. the chronicle of the misadventures of an east german family as they declared road trip to italy in the

long go over car the the to truly understand the trib band and the journey it's made into the hot from or to improve youth. it's not enough to make the experience because the chubby stand is incomplete without a visit to its book place. and it's not hard to figure it out. the jordan siobhan country when you order into because where the trouble on, which translates to companion was assembled for over feeding kids today. the former chubby factory has is the august horse museum with the dedicated trip on exhibit features in every version of the cot ever made. and even a chubby simulator, the it allows oppose and freedom that was unheard of. i'd say 30 years

after the 2nd world war speak owens known for neg citicards from the auto union stable switch to making an affordable people for the east german population to enter the integrated version of the chubby the p. 16. and it's early days. the trip on to is a symbol of innovation. to combat the scarcity of sheet metal, a new material doodle task was invented by engineer both gunbar to the material combined low quality cost and 5 was that east germany had an abundance would send all exist seen you have to imagine you have one been layer of coffee, not very sick and there is a very fine line of rest and powder, trickling over each layer and at the end to end up with 90 layers, residence, and cost. and that gives you a sick tissue and then is then cut and then covers with the facing paper and

eventually inserted to the press. and they did that a body panel that was new, indestructible, and lived up with a name doodle task. the material that put in dry storage or, and seem to simply last forever and from due to ability to capacity. whether chevy be 50, had to $500.00 c. c engine generating around 80 and horse power and the try b, p. 60 had a 600 c. c engine with around 23 horse power. the most popular tribute them all the fame, 601 height of 594 c. c engine that turned out around $26.00 horsepower the speeds at which most people traveled around and it might have been relatively low. but boy was demand for the trip on time. started with about 2 years that you had to wait from the order to delivery. and in 1989, let's say it could be between 10 and 14 years depending on the model that you chose

. in fact, it was digital, the coolest waiting times. didn't nearly dawn east german scene go. sonya schmidt off the idea of thinking that seems to in about a cuddly blue trap on see she'd read it had some influence to get hands in a chubby and felt guilty about it. the in the eighty's the following eastern the has there were sentiments ahead. i hate to last for the trip on. it was needed on a daily basis. an invoice or a symbol off spec nation. while the west had caused it, had become significantly more advanced on the technology in conflict front. but try these remain the same. there were plans to try and develop new models of the call over time and sure today it's a little bit, but the political power has to be put

a stop to it. the. the most significant change made to the call was in 1990 when the trouble and 1 point one was given an 1100 cc, forceful volkswagen engine. but it was too little too late. by the time the very last drop by and drop it off the production line, all of put it had been lost. what you mean would a few unkind nicknames like to? because in papa, which translates as because of use and cardboard, a reference to the general task that had once been the child. these innovative highlight off to the fall of the berlin was shop on to available for the tool away . okay. sometimes even for free, there was also something known as the chevy, 2 bedrooms, with quite a long line of unwanted bending and unloved wood. one man's trash is another man's treasure. today the chubby has become something of a collector's item,

would seize in the youngest of tribes having crossed the right for the age of 13. the little machine is no firmly in classic car territory, which has helped increase this appeal. and it's gone globe from germany to the rest of the audio, and the u. k. is even cost the eye of con, that's across the pond. but i caught up with 2 chevy bends closer to home vessels bids. jose gonzalez has a fun this because from the eastern block, the spot for plastic off hand do for organize. the last meeting in belgium, one is the largest gatherings of its kind, and he's an admission to seek justice to the trip on a car he believes has been the subject of unfair criticism. this was always seen as the exact and the books to the problem is that the,

someone interested in plastic automobiles the is your, of the cars behind the iron curtain was in possible solutions. a to resist. for me is important is from the, from west the newer, but from the west, off with the narrow uh was uh, workflow secrets full of, uh, misconceptions who are very far away. i thought back then. so i've been living a lot and i think that's also part of the, the charm of having a car like these that the allows you to discover, to explore, to, to know more into change of what you know already. the kind question is 1970. because each of on 601 named helga a machine that's helped him get a glimpse into a wood he otherwise knew little about 7 years in and how guys like a family member who's defense is use a will always dump the has exactly the same issue and he didn't come to the

executive thing, difficulties of finding uh to know the car from the west, from the thing. but i also have one case i don't find this call for the call is very funny. if the car is more powerful to the problem in terms of loading capacity, carriers, less people and less luggage. and the problem is harder to far cuz i'll do it. smaller susie fashion for the pine size passenger got is disease and he's been as a garage to, to its time period where he hopes to try be will feel at home while he goes about restoring because of reputation, the reputation and the rest of the cars themselves because they are disappearing to make people interesting, discard the, make sure that they don't lot. and then the end up being a scrap yard context is important. and given when the java.