It was “Corvette Day” at Cars & Coffee Morrisville, the Saturday morning gathering that each month draws thousands of auto enthusiasts to an office park off Page Road near Research Triangle Park.
Sports cars lined the parking lots, with super chargers, spoilers and racing stripes. Engines revved or rumbled as cars came and went or their owners showed off for admirers.
Amid all that automotive testosterone, Mitch Armbruster of Apex and his son Noah stood next to their Trabant, a Cold War relic from East Germany that they bought two years ago and returned to running condition. The diminutive, 60-year-old Trabant, with blemished papyrus white paint and a DDR sticker on the back, was something different…