July 27th
Dear Kees Smit
Thanks so much for posting a link to our Tatra’s victory in the New York Times Collectible Car Contest on Tatraworld.
Yesterday, Paul Greenstein and I celebrated that victory by throwing a party for all the people who voted for the car in the contest (and were able to make it to Los Angeles to celebrate). Some 300 people (including the Czech Consul General) attended, and it was the largest known public gathering of 
Tatras on the American West Coast (3). Those gathered enjoyed Czech food (home-made goulash and ook nog Hollandsche rooie kool zoals mijn Oma vroeger gemaakt heeft), Czech beer, Czech cars, as well as Tatra cookies and a T87 cake.
Paul Greenstein & Dydia DeLyser
Restoration history in two pages:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/automobiles/collectibles/25contest.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&ref=automobiles&adxnnlx=1280516473-sXqLJ3zGxoOk9Z1TdggMGQ
http://clunkbucket.com/tatra-t87-world-tour/
Summaries:
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/07/31/1941-tatra-t87-named-the-new-york-times-collectible-car/
http://www.carthrottle.com/nyt-collectible-car-of-the-year-1941-tatra-t87/