Air trade from the GDR

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East GermanyWe are in a fantastic world. There are stories in the classic circle that you don't hear in any showroom. This is the integral communication after a comment about 'someone who sold canned petrol air'.

The links were "East Germany, that Wende and" someone from the MZclub or something. And thanks to what Googling this was the result. thanks to Dinant:

Hello Dolf

Sorry I can only now answer your mail, I had an MZ weekend with the participants of the German MZ list where I had an IWL scooter from 1964, the Troll / 1, amidst a bunch of MZ riders on small roads. up and down the mountains had to be full.

At 14: 50 27-5-2014, Dolf Peeters wrote:

> At Gerrit Kranenberg in here I heard something about tins with
> eastern block air. What's up with that? Do you sell them? Seems important to me
> news for in AMK.

GDR MZIt was set up a few years ago as a project when I and a friend bought a large garage where somebody thought they had saved a little money for their old age. But the rent for the garage was canceled at the time and everything had to be removed as old iron.

After the fall of the wall this gentleman had transported old MZ motorcycles and Samson mopeds from the GDR to West Germany. My friend ran everything and I was able to sell everything as a riding two-wheeler, there was an avid group of buyers for it. The tanks of course still contained genuine old gasoline mixed with brown coal oil for the two-stroke engines.

And that was exactly the air that you immediately smelled when you entered the GDR before the fall of the wall.
Even if you were blindfolded, you immediately smelled if you had arrived on the wrong side of the border.
Of course, fresh, contemporary two-stroke petrol had to be put in the tank to be able to restart the engines.

DDRWhen the wall fell, the brown coal oil was over and the typical East German air was a thing of the past, literally to the relief of the residents.

When I unscrewed the first fuel cap from that load of two-wheelers, all memories came to mind - since 1966 I regularly visited the GDR - and only then did I realize what strong emotions a scent can cause.

I have made a series of 100 fragrance packages Ostduft and that was made known to fans of Oos-German two-wheelers - MZ and Simson riders - and even Trabant fanatics and everything was sold in no time.
It was of course a joke, but a great opportunity to explain the special features of your hobby to astonished contemporaries.

> Do you have a site?

I set up the website in a curse and a sigh, but I haven't looked back on it for years.
I'll just find out if it still exists ....

GDR Freiheit im Garten 1989, 2takt, brown coal hmmm pity, the url was: but this website
is no longer to be found. I still have to have everything somewhere in my archive, but that will be
just search. In 2004 it was mentioned here: http://www.schwalbennest.de/simson/richtige-mz-seiten-67024.html
But yeah…..

Furthermore, I had planned the next series of 100 pieces and I have almost all the parts in front of it, but of course everything came in between, which was much more important.
Whether I still have the jerry can with East German gas is also a matter of searching ...

And whether I will start a new series depends on the interest and the time that I can put into it.
Of course it remains a strong story anyway, selling air… ..
: )

regards,
Dinant

 

 

 

 

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