[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='166490' date='Mar 30 2008, 07:45 PM']nah... they had papier-mache bodies... the paint protected them from the rain...[/quote]
wiki says:
"The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid, bonnet, [b]fender[/b]s and doors in [u]Duroplast[/u], a form of plastic containing resin strengthened by wool or cotton. This helped the GDR to avoid expensive steel imports, but in theory did not provide much crash protection, although in crash tests it has actually proven to be [u]superior [/u]to some modern small hatchbacks.[3][4] The Trabant was the second car to use Duroplast, after the "pre-Trabant" P70 (Zwickau) model (1954-1959). The duroplast was made of recycled material, cotton waste from Russia and phenol resins from the East German dye industry making the Trabant the [u]first car with a body made of recycled material[/u].[5]"
so only pros!! haha