#gdr #racing #mt77 Jürgen Meissner tells us how the invention of a new seat belt for racing cars came about and how he was supposed to film a stunt with a Trabant tramp for western television.
In 1980 Jürgen Meißner switched from rallying to racing, drove mountain races, then immediately got a race track license, two years later he was first there, was promoted to LK one and from 1985 he was a member of the national team. He owes his good development to his best friends from Dresden, Ulli Melkus. At that time, Jürgen Meißner had the great opportunity to set up his racing car between the two master cars, from which he could take the dimensions. And of course the friends then helped him set up the racing car in the evening after work. That's why this racing car was always assembled and screwed up to the turn of the century, one of the most modern cars and one of the most technically advanced at the time.
All in all, three really interesting stories, which once again show details about the history of racing in the GDR. Jürgen Meißner is still active in racing today, so he is currently rebuilding his former MT77 racing car, which he sold at the end of the 1980s. After a long time without racing, he bought his former MT77 via detours in January 2022 back and started restoring it. But that is a story of its own.
Thanks to the belt he developed, lives could even be saved in the event of an accident. Today it is simply unimaginable how dangerous racing must have been in GDR times.
The last story in this video is about a stunt with a Trabant Tramp.
Racing drivers and rally drivers are well known that their vehicles are very good at driving under extreme conditions, so many stunts were also done for Maier on television, which was a traffic safety education program.
One day Ulli Melkus got a call from television in Berlin asking him to make a film with the Trabant Tramp, which by the way was then supposed to be sold in the West.
But had no time and asked Jürgen Meißner.
Since you always made good money, he stepped in and tried to let a Trabant Tramp drive a model over a very narrow ramp.
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