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Welcome to episode 22 of Cold War Conversations and we're talking about East German cars with Alex Goff and Mark Malaki of the UK-based Vortberg-Trabant IFA Club.

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Now, I don't think Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson, etc. will have anything to worry about,

but I hope you enjoy our chat about the travi and the ride I took through the

Staffordshire countryside in Alex's trabant I am delighted to welcome Alex and Mark

so guys what what started your interest in East German? I think for me it was sort of holidays to

Germany and Berlin and sort of looking at the history and seeing the history there and stalking

me around the car shows. I was kind of stalking Mark around the car shows and had seen

Trebantz in the UK,

and suddenly decided that I really needed one.

And, yeah, eBay was the way forward.

And purchase one, late-night purchase, and it arrived, and fell in love ever since.

So you bought it off eBay?

eBay, yeah.

Wow.

Site unseen. Yeah, completely unseen. It was an import

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