Must be the ex-carnie in me coming to the surface again... To me, a
"Trabant" isn't a car... It's a 1964-ish vintage fairground ride made by  
Chance Industries out of Witchita Kansas. And it's a COMPLETE pain in
the a.s to set up or tear down when it's time to jump to the next spot
the carnival is playing. Only two rides that I've ever worked setup or
teardown on are worse: a full-sized Himylaya/Flying Bobsleds (Takes
hours to level the web and lay the track and sweeps - Typically, putting
one up in "full dress", complete with scenery/cover panels, and
everything else that goes into making it "look good" takes a crew of 15
or 20 and 2-3 days), or a pre 1977 Tilt-a-Whirl. Tilt-a-Whirls made
after 1977 were designed with ramps, tracks, guides, and racking, plus a
built-into-the-trailer hoist boom/winch that makes it at least possible
(though by no means pleasant) for a crew of 6 to set them up or tear
them down in under a day. Pre-1977 models were all about sheer
grunt-work - Throw 10 BIG BEEFY guys at it, and you *MIGHT* get it set
up in a day. Any less than that, or with site-help that's scrawny, and
you're looking at as much as 3 days to set it up.

These days, you usually see Trabants re-badged as either "The Casino" or
"The High Roller", with a gambling motif - card faces on the sides of
the seats, the main ride-in-it section painted to look like a roulette
wheel, and the scenery/cover pieces looking like something that crawled
out of a Las Vegas cocktail lounge (and should have been chased back
in!). Underneath the paint job, it's still the same old wad of "made in
1964" fiberglass, iron, and hydraulics.