>True fact: The body panels of the Trabant are made from cotton.
>(Well, cotton-reinforced resin. Or resin-reinforced cotton, depending
>on how you look at it.) So, if nothing else, it's not like they'll
>have major fender-rust problems. :)

Well, FIBRE-reinforced resin. But yes, cotton was one of the fibres that was used in Duroplast. So was wool.