Paul Greenstein, who owns this 1941 Tatra T87 he found in upstate New York in 2001, happened upon an earlier post and photo here titled: A Tatra in New York City. He believes that there is a good possibility the car he and his girlfriend Dydia Delyser now own may in fact be the same car pictured in New York City at J.P. Inskip’s dealership on October 2, 1948. If any of our readers can help connect the dots between the car at Inskip’s in New York City and this car when it was traded in at Binghamton, New York, please do let us know. Paul relates the story of the unique story as follows: “The car was purchased from the factory at the end of May, 1941 by a car dealer-auto shop owner by the name of Vaclav Konstantin in the Moravian town of Olomouc. He ordered several of the cars and picked them up on consecutive weeks, probably for his customers. The next known whereabouts of the car was in Binghamton, NY around 1950 when it threw a rod and was traded in at Molyneux Lincoln Mercury. It sat on the lot as a wild and wooly come on, until sometime in the mid-sixties, when it was purchased and the restoration was started. The engine was rebuilt and replaced, but none of the cosmetics had been done, when the car came up for sale again”.
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