On the roads we see many cars that pretend they are on mountains and in the field at all at home, but do not make a scandal even before the State Opera.But who can speak about a real rough ride, the adventurers that circumstances forced to pass virtually impassable tropical rainforests in almost 60 years old Tatra 805
Přibáň Dan and his colleague Peter Kopečným passed a week across the South American tropical forests 700 km between the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and Georgetown Guyana.The path taken in the rainy season when roads are impassable by local authorities.Way said they met only five local trucks, newer cars, but had to ride in mud, huge problems.Old tatra, once developed at the request of the military and produced between 1953 – 1960, managed way.
Travelers passed long stretches five feet deep water, where the terrain light truck moved an average speed of only ten miles per hour.Yet it did not stop anything.Both men are just afraid to be over, because then you would have found themselves in the company of crocodiles in the flooded forest roads commonly found.
Off-road car stopped stamp
Somewhat hazardous journey through the forest really was not originally planned, a Czech crew bureaucracy forced her to Venezuelan authorities, who did not allow them to load the car on a ship to Europe.”The truck went through the whole of South America and then stamp it stopped,” said Přibáň.And so with Kopečným for old car rusting in the Venezuelan port returned.For travelers, their tatra valuable relics, because the same kind of took his second expedition famous duo Hanzelka – Sigismund.
Modern adventures of old Tatra 805 has a happy ending, but the car seemed to have dismissed his last performance.”Now I probably will not go anywhere because it was almost everywhere, and I think that the Antarctic is the Tatra little off,” concluded Dan Přibáň.
Categories: Racing & Rallying
June 19th, 2011