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What I forgot to add that this was so memorable because this was the only instance our model Wartburg crap car overtook Mercedes after BMW after Audi after Mercedes after etc. on a highway... because we didn't drove 10 km/h below speed limit. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But the rumour was such, that they would stop your times on the motorway. if you drove under a certain time from Marienborn to Berlin, then you must have sped underway, FINE and more hard currency for them. They didn;t always use radar...
Yeah, they were pretty much focusing on West Germans. I guess if a CIA agent tavelled in with a Dutch pass, he would have had no trouble...
(On the other hand, it wasn't the number plate - I called my mother, she said we had to have a West German number plate after six months, and these visits were later on. Probably the car type and our passes made my parents feel less worried.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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