Lol 2 stroke engines produce loads of carcinogen emissions including NOx.

@@Simon-dm8zv So do 4 stroke engines. The difference being one produces the blue smoke due to oil and petrol not being fully combusted and the other produces blue smoke when the engine has some sort of internal failure that compromises the combustion capability.

@@ravenouself4181 Correct.

Diesel engines, at least here in the US, are cleaner than even four stroke gasoline engines, even in this regard, and this holds on the road as well as during the tests. Mind you, US gasoline engines are substantially cleaner than Euro-Spec ones, because the US has such strict laws and standards for emissions. California's are stricter than the Feds, but the Federal Standards are stricter than any standard formulated by any non-US government. So this is, by comparison, horrible. But that's the US. Europe is perhaps a little different, as was discovered during the diesel emissions scandal.

Yeah, to me this looks more like crappy maintenance.

They also produced 4 takt? maybe you had one of those? Currently looking in to buying a 2 takt Barkas B1000 so all advice is welcome.

Finding spares for a Barkas in Austria must have been interesting!

You cheeky bugger. :D

You're right!

At least the engine drives and drives and drives

I spent my summer holidays in a small Hungarian village from 1995 to 1999 and if I remember correctly the owner of the ABC (grocery store) had a grey Barkas van exactly like this one. For only having a few hundred inhabitants there was surprisingly much infrastructure in that tiny hamlet - said grocery store, an even smaller hardware store, a post office and several slightly dodgy-looking bars/cafés. I seem to remember two wine/beer houses and one kávéház called something like Fortuna presszó. That far out in the sticks there were still plenty of Eastern Bloc cars in the late 90s, Trabant, Wartburg, Skoda, the occasional Lada and once I even saw an UAZ 469. I've got relatives in eastern Germany and spent one memorable summer holiday there as a 5-year-old riding in my aunt's blue Trabant and my uncle's red Lada, that probably sparked my fascination with communist cars. The motorways were amazing too, incredibly bumpy concrete panels and my parents' Mitsubishi van wasn't exactly known for its refined smooth ride. I really enjoyed the bumps as a kid though.

Cause he's slovakian, lol.

Exactly mate

Don't you have a class for historic cars like Germany has?

It’s an normal ddr two Stroke I think it’s the Same like in the Wartburg.And the Esst German cars were all Advanced by the Time there were Build but there were Build a Long Time without any big upgrades. For example the Trabant 601 was Build from 1959 Till 1989

The basic construction of engine goes back to 1939 DKW F9. Due to WWII this car started into production from 1950 as IFA F9 in East Germany and DKW 3=6 in West Germany. This basic 990 cc 3-cyl water cooled engine was produced for Wartburg cars and these cute vans until 1989 - a mere 50 years! Nothing to do with Trabant (air-cooled!) or Soviet Union....

All DDR vehicles were front engine I think. Czechoslovak Skodas and Tatras and Soviet Zaporoshez were rear-engine designs. Tatra built luxury cars like the 87 with an air-cooled rear-mounted V8 engine! A bit like a Corvair on steroids I guess.

They knew it was there, it was just hard to get

And still there are people saying how good communism and socialism is

Might I add, they used these as ambulances in the GDR. Not kidding.

my Barkas stops perfectly!

The Barkas is notorious for his spectacular tendency to nosedive and get the rear wheels off the ground (when not loaded) (search for "Barkas braking" on KZfaq) when braking is applied hard, so yes, Barkas have an effective braking system.

Thank you, guys, for the answers. I am asking so that I could judge what the chances are to rescue such a vehicle nowadays. Bad brakes would clearly mean the car is not fit for traffic, so that's not desired.

It's a car from the 60s so don't expect 30m break way with 100kmh

Engine wise I think so yes. Origined in Jørgen Skafte Rasmussens design from many years ago