Archive for 2012

Video: A trip to the Lane Motor Museum

March 3rd, 2012
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Generally, I like to feature old photos and stories for Flashback Friday. Today I’ve got something different: a video.

About a month ago, I drove a Scion iQ down to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn., to experience some of the world’s most unique vehicles (and see if the Scion iQ really is a unique, [...]

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T 87 at Veloce

February 29th, 2012
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Journalist Gordon Wilkins said that ‘although it has an impressive performance, it produces in the driver the uneasy exhilaration which may be got from shampooing a lion.’ Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called it the only car that was more dangerous than the much — oft unjustly — maligned Corvair. The German Army was said to [...]

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Tatra article at Veloce today!

February 23rd, 2012
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By Pete Vack with help from Karl LudvigsenWhy a Tatra in VeloceToday, you might ask. Probably because it is a carmaker lost in the mountains of Moravia, lost almost to history, lost to VW, lost to the ravages of the 20th century and revolution, lost to the incessant demands of a system that requires both [...]

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Tatra shareholder in debt repayment problems

February 23rd, 2012
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Moodys has down graded KCB therefore CSOB due to debt repayment problems..

http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/business/markets-finance/czech-csob-owner-debt-rating-downgrade

(Malcolm Douglas)

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Ales Loprais’ health

February 18th, 2012
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Loprais gave an interview about his health on CZ TV:
English: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct4/exkluzivne-na-ct4/163927-nehoda-vztahy-v-tymu-neovlivnila-tvrdi-loprais-mesic-po-dakaru/
Czech: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct4/exkluzivne-na-ct4/163927-nehoda-vztahy-v-tymu-neovlivnila-tvrdi-loprais-mesic-po-dakaru/

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Published in Racing & Rallying

Schotten winterrally

February 17th, 2012
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German long-time Tatra enthusiast Rolf Ackermann drove his T 57 Sport in last week’s German Schotten winterrally.
http://www.motor-klassik.de/termin/sport-42-asc-winterrallye-rund-um-schotten-4078352.html

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Published in Events & Meetings

Zikmund’s 93th birthday

February 15th, 2012
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Famous T 87 traveller Miroslav   Zikmun wasd surprised at his 93th birthday when restoration firm Ecorra visited him at his kome with Jiri Pechan’s T 87.  Zikmund was awarded with a Tatra model, calendars and other Tatra stuff. (Martin Prokop/Eva Plutova)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.350988298267738.89879.138103669556203&type=1

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Canadian Tatra treasure

February 12th, 2012
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Fred Jonckheere allowed to take some pictures and learn about his 3 Czechoslovakian Tatra cars
http://canadianrodder.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13039

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Hanzelka Zikmund archive

February 12th, 2012
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Czech: http://zlin.idnes.cz/foto.aspx?r=zlin-zpravy&c=A120207_1728855_zlin-zpravy_sot
English: http://zlin.idnes.cz/vzacna-sbirka-hanzelky-a-zikmunda-se-stehuje-ze-zlinskeho-zamku-pwh-/zlin-zpravy.aspx?c=A120207_1728855_zlin-zpravy_sot

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Freshly restored T 87 in SK

January 31st, 2012
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http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/post-your-photos/173169-machinery-t87-tatra.html

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