"Nostalgic? Open a can of car exhaust"

[GreenPartyVoter]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man has canned the noxious-smelling exhaust fumes of East Germany's cult Trabant car and is doing a brisk trade selling the scent to those nostalgic for the former Communist state.

"The smell is something very special and scarce nowadays," said Thorsten Jahn, whose cans of "Trabi" exhaust sell online for 3.98 euros ($4.81).

"I wanted to preserve the past in an original way."

Fifteen years since reunification, nostalgia for East Germany has been running strong as rosy memories of the communist state's social safety nets, holiday camps and quaint consumer products like the tiny, box-like Trabants increasingly eclipse its negative aspects.

http://reuters.iwon.com/article/20050718/2005-07-18T155129Z_01_L18445777_RTRIDST_0_ODD-GERMANY-TRABI-DC.html

[mainegreen]

1. I just want the car

I dont know why, but those small boxy iron curtain cars are SOOO CUTE!
Seriously, I'd get one if I could afford the maintenance.

[Taverner]

2. Keep in mind its the size of a Mini

And yet only gets 10 MPG....

However it will run on vodka, or kerosene...

[Hav]

3. .

Have you ever seen the plans for alternative models? At the time, some of them wouldn't have looked bad at all.