[AT] Way O.T. Hot spot.

[Larry D. Goss]

>From my own experience in viewing how people live in the former soviet
bloc, I'm inclined to think the vehicles were cannibalized in order to
keep other vehicles just like them in running condition.  They could
have been taking anything -- oil, batteries, miscellaneous parts...

When eastern Europe abandoned the Trabant (a really cheap car that made
the Yugo look like a limousine) the policy was that current owner's
could continue to use them as long as they would run.  The resale value
on them was absolutely zero, so when the cars stopped running, they
would simply be abandoned along the road.  From that point, other owners
would help themselves to whatever parts they needed to keep their own
cars running.  The outer shell was plastic (similar to the Saturn) so
the cars just stayed, and stayed, and stayed.  The last couple of times
when I've visited Poland, the number of abandoned Trabant's seems to be
diminishing.  Apparently, they are finally being carted off to
landfills, sunk in the Baltic, or both.

Larry 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of George Willer
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:23 PM
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Stuart,

Here's a thought... maybe their EPA made them slurp all the fluids out
to
prevent environmental damage and they left the hoods open as a signal
that
it had been done?  :-(

George Willer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Harner" <sharner at starband.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Way O.T. Hot spot.


> I was curious about that George.
>
> At first I thought it was a bunch of vehicles that contained
scientists
that
> were doing work that day.  Then looking at the rows of vehicles, and
the
comment
> that they were still "hot", I figured out that they had been parked
and
> abandoned when the fires were out and they finally evacuated.
>
> I am still unclear if there were bodies in vehicles when the photo was
taken or
> if it just represented all the people that had been involved in the
disaster.
>
> I was curious as to why the hoods were open on so many of those
trucks.
Was
> something removed as they were parked and abandoned, or were they
looted
> sometime afterward?
>
> It would be interesting to know more about the science and actual
facts
about
> what happened.  Due to where it happened and the agenda of "reports",
it
is hard
> to discern what really happened from this far away.  I suspect that
this
gal has
> a better understanding of it that I ever will.
>
> I did find it interesting that the plant and animals seem to be doing
OK.
At
> first I thought that most of the trees and grass was dead, but when I
saw
all
> the snow, I figured the pictures were taken in the spring.
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Way O.T. Hot spot.
>
>
> > Did anyone else understand from the text that many of those vehicles
still
> > have bodies in them?
> >
> > George Willer


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