Sometimes you have to love a car simply for its unusual name, like, say, the Apperson Jackrabbit, or the Gadabout roadster, or the Wartburg, the subject of this column.
The Apperson (1901-1926) was a fairly popular line of early American cars, while the one-off Gadabout was a circa-1945 attempt at an American sports car. The Wartburg, on the other hand, was an East German car that came to these shores during the short period of time when it seemed like any foreign car could find success in the United States. That was a period that roughly ran from 1956 to 1968, an era when
