March 3rd, 2012
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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February 29th, 2012
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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February 23rd, 2012
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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February 23rd, 2012
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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February 18th, 2012
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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February 17th, 2012
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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February 15th, 2012
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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February 12th, 2012
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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February 12th, 2012
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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January 31st, 2012
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/post-your-photos/173169-machinery-t87-tatra.html
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