decars1-8, Exercise 2: The right-turns-only story

Model answer (check the method):

Documented, claimed or unknown? The story is "claimed" in the sense that it is told, and "unknown" as to whether it ever happened. A search found no named person, date, newspaper report or other primary source, and general histories of the Trabant do not mention it. It resembles a joke told as a true story: similar tales are told about many makes and countries, and a car that turns only one way is an old comic image.

What would change the answer:
1. A contemporary report (a letter, complaint file or newspaper item) naming the person, place and date.
2. A manufacturer's or dealer's record of a steering fault on that car.
3. An interview with the person or a close relative.
4. An early printed version of the story that is clearly older and attributed.

If such evidence appeared, the label would move from "anecdote" to "documented incident". Until then, it should be told as a story, with that label.