Green Goddess Fire Engine

[MarkyB]

Where's the water cannon then?
That and a big bar of soap would have them running for their lives!

[ASL642]

Now that I really like!

[Trabantdave]

A choice of Water Cannons for your joy and delectation-soap optional, and a Lada Control Car.

I think that when the German Democratic Republic was absorbed by the BRD that you could buy the set for about 10 D-Marks.

I've owned Trabants, Ladas and pre-VW Skodas and they are good fun; in many ways similar to the Minor in that the designs were effective if basic and produced almost unchanged for decades; the Trabant was quite revolutionary (no pun intended) with a steel monocoque clad in rustless plastic resin panels, and front-wheel-drive. The Eastern Bloc Mini!

Albeit with a 600cc aircooled two-cylinder two-stroke engine driving the fron wheels through a four speed column change gearbox. The fueltank sat under the bonnet (over the passengers feet ) and the fuel gauge was a plastic dipstick.

For those unfamiliar with cars from the DDR I present....... The trabant! Made from 1964 to 1990, also latterly came with a 1.1 VW Polo engine



The Poles produced a super little car called the Syrena - built until 1983! Three cylinder water-cooled two-stroke similar to Wartburg



And finally the Wartburg 311/312 from the mid 60's- I am currently negotiating with my wife to buy one of these; she is from Poland and remembers her dad having a Trabant in the late 70's as well as a Lada - the one with a chrome grille that he refers to laughingly as his 'Russian Mercedes' , one of his friends owns a superb Warti that I am hoping to buy and import to the UK.

That's all for now

Dave

[ASL642]

No offence to the Lada or your Trabant, but I'll take the water cannon! I could have really good fun with that.

[Trabantdave]

The top two have a very purposeful look to them, they are IFA G 5 SK 2 WaWe; WaWe is Wasserwerfer- water cannon,

The third pic is a Star. These were made in Poland and used with great effect by the Milicja Obywatelska, or Peoples Mititia.

They lost much credibilty by augmenting their fleet with these bad boys - these are why the iron curtain fell



and

[mike.perry]

You could start a car wash business

[ASL642]

We'd probably get sued by all the people complaining about their leaking windscreens! The pressure from a water cannon would probably turn the car over.

[Quendil]

You could get this
http://www.tankdriving.net/vehicle_sales.htm

[ASL642]

Would love to trundle that in to my local Test Centre and ask for an MOT! (and yes I know they're exempt)