[Spridgets] Sprite & Berlin Wall

Linda Grunthaner grunthaner at gmail.com
Sun May 4 19:36:36 MDT 2014


George, Very cool story, thanks.
Lin
62 California Sprite "Pinky"

On Sunday, May 4, 2014, George <gmari2 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Unique ways people got past the Berlin Wall
> 3. WITHOUT A WINDSHIELD
> When Austrian lathe operator Heinz Meixner pulled up to Checkpoint Charlie
> on
> May 5, 1963, something must have seemed odd about his red Austin Healy
> Sprite
> convertible. Namely, it was missing its windshield. (A closer inspection
> would
> also have revealed that his mother was hiding in the trunk.) When the East
> German guard directed Meixner to pull over to a customs shed, Meixner
> instead
> floored the accelerator and ducked. His tiny car slipped right under the
> three-foot-high barrier dividing the East from the West.
>
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