Red October

Last weekend a trip down to London coincided with Red October Day at the Ace Café on the Sunday.

the Ace Cafe

As a trip to the Ace is never wasted, and as I’m a big fan of vehicles from the former eastern bloc, I decided to toddle along for some breakfast and to see what turned up.

Ural & Dnepr (BMW engine)

Trabant Kubelwagen

row of MZs

more MZs

Triumphs old & new

lovely old BMW boxer

MZ ETS250 Trophy Sport

I wasn't the only one far from home

Any Colour You Want

Trabant P601s

Jigsaw Pieces

Multi-coloured Trabants in Berlin

(Via: Twitter)

Trailer Queen

From Facebook

Trabi Treff 2016

Safari Tours

If you'ver ever wanted to drive one you can rent a Trabant for a tour around Berlin at Trabi-Safari

The Universal

Weekend Roundup

Weekend Roundup

Apologies, but I’ve been a mite busy of late so haven’t posted much recently. To make up for it a bit I’ve been having a trawl through the archives and come up with a bunch of stuff from years gone by. More to come later.

Youth Culture

Teenagers on Simson mopeds in the former GDR (East Germany). Note the Trabants in the background.

Soft Top

NVA Trabant Kubelwagen

Friends From The East

Jawa 350 (Czech Republic)

It wasn't just MZs which turned up at the recent MZ National Rally. There were a number of other vehicles from the former Eastern Bloc too.

Trabant P601 (East Germany)

IMZ Ural 750 (Russia)

Minsk 125 (Belarus)