Tatra enthusiasts who like to compete in meetings have to make up their minds. The meetings this year are spread across Europe and the first meeting, TFI’s May 13-16 Italian Trescore Balneario meeting (see www.tatraclub.at) is held in two months time. The meeting is quite promising with much attention paid to the Italian cuisine and I cannot think of any other Tatra meeting with a sexier name than this one. Those who prefer the summer however could choose the July 4 Aarberg (near the Swiss capital Bern) meeting organised by an as always enthusiastic Swiss crew (www.tatra.ch) or the July 22-25 TRD Bavaria meeting in Wemding for those who favour to taste Franz Josef Strauss’country site (www.tatra-register.de.)
In the First weekend of August we are all invited at the Tatra Register UK (www.tatra-register.co.uk) meeting near Dover, just across the Channel, so why don’t we grant our Tatras a seasickness (air-cooled Tatras do not throw-up!) and a left-hand traffic experience? In the last weekend of August our Danish friends are keen to see us all at the Isle of Fünen (Fyn) at their First Nordic Rally. Though their website (www.tatrovak.dk) has not published details yet, it has been confirmed that the August 27-29 rally is ON! In the traditional first weekend in September, all classic Tatras should head for the Beskydy rally in Horni Becva/Koprivnice. It is the mother of all Czecho-Slovak Tatra rallies with always rare Tatras showing up. Finally, to close the season, the Dutch Tatra Register hopes to see us all in the hilly very southern part of Holland for a tatste of Indian Summer on their October 1-3 annual meeting. (www.tatraregister.nl/agenda)
While speeding across mainland Europe we should not forget to visit the Jan. 19 – May 16 Ledwinka exhibition in Dresden (http://www.verkehrsmuseum-dresden.de/user_upload/bilder/ledwinka1.pdf) or this year’s April 7-11 Techno Classica in Essen (http://www.siha.de/tce_uk.php) featuring, as always, a stand of the Tatra Freunde International (www.tatraclub.at)
See you sometime, somewhere!