Well known navigator Serge Bruynkens has left the Loprais Team. He did not go on well with Ales Loprais and the two became involved in a competence struggle in January’s Dakar. Bruynkens will now team up with Hans Stacey of the De Rooy Team. Vehicle will be a nosed Iveco Powerstar, similar to Gerard de [...]
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Serge Bruynkens quits Loprais team
March 31st, 2014
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Ronald Adams seeks compensation
March 28th, 2014
Former US head of Tatra truck company seeks compensation over corruption slur
ČTK |
28 MARCH 2014
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – Ronald Adams, former U.S. director of the Czech-based Tatra lorry marker, wants Prague to pay him five million crowns in compensation for the prosecution he faced over suspected bribery, which he says adversely affected his personal [...]
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Essen 2014 (Updated)
March 27th, 2014
In Hall 9.1 of this year’s Techno Classica, the TFI shows the T 87 of club president Ulli Platzek. As always, the stand is a meeting point for Tatra fans.
The TFI’s T 87 wasn’t the only T 87 shown at Essen. Thiesen http://www.thiesen-kg.de/offered an all-white Ecorra restored T 87 at E 235.000,–
Update: http://www.motor-klassik.de/bilder/techno-classica-2014-messerundgang-dirk-johae-panini-patina-und-dicke-pellen-8223857.html?fotoshow_item=11
Of course, Essen [...]
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Where to go for a 2014 Tatra event?
March 25th, 2014
http://www.tatraworld.nl/events-calendar/
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Visit the Techno Classica in Essen and have a look at the TFI club stand! (Hall 9.1)
March 25th, 2014
26th Techno-Classica Essen – 26th* – 30th March 2014
World Show for Vintage, Classic and Prestige Automobiles, Motorsport, Motorcycles, Spare Parts, Restauration and World Club Meeting
Date:
26th* – 30th March 2014
*26th March: Happy View Day / Vorschau
Location:
MESSE ESSEN, Norbertstr. 2, D-45131 Essen
Exhibition area:
120.000 m2 divided into 20 halls and 4 open air areas
Number of exhibitor 2013:
more than [...]
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Tatra in German cardgame
March 20th, 2014
http://www.amazon.de/OSTBLOQUE-Skat-Das-Skatblatt-RGW-Oldtimern/dp/B00ATQSSOK
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Tatra Phoenix wins tender in Surgut (RUS)
March 20th, 2014
The latest series kopřivnické automaker has achieved excellent results in demanding tests and won a tender for vehicles with 8×8 axle configurations.
Surgut is known as a major Russian city of oil, which also excels in extreme climatic and terrain conditions. All equipment, including trucks, there is constantly subjected to severe operating tests and successful products [...]
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Tatragate: Martin Bartak, ex-vice minister sought bribe worth millions
March 20th, 2014
ČTK |
20 MARCH 2014
Prague, March 19 (CTK) – Duncan Sellars, former manager of the Czech-based Tatra lorry maker, told a Prague court Wednesday that former Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak had asked the then Tatra supervisory board head William Cabaniss for a few million dollars in 2008.
The money was to be paid in exchange [...]
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Tatragate: Former U.S. ambassador and Tatra supervisory board member speaks before Czech court
March 20th, 2014
Case involves dealings of H.E. William Cabaniss with former Defense Minister Martin Barták
Prague, March 17 (ČTK) — Former Tatra supervisory board head and U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2004–06) William Cabaniss today provided testimony for five and a half hours in the trial of former Defense Minister Martin Barták, who is facing corruption charges [...]
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T 87 among a new series of scale models based on the Louwman Museum collection
March 16th, 2014
(photo shows the Matrix T 87 prototype model)
The Dutch car model manufacturer Matrix will issue a series of six 1: 42 model from the collection of the LouwmanMuseum.
They are:
Tatra T87, 1938Duesenberg SJ Le Grande, 1935Fiat 8V Vignale Demonrouge, 1953Lagonda V12 Le Mans Lancefield, 1939Bugatti Type 57 Roadster “Grand Raid” Gangloff, 1934Daimler DK400 Golden Zebra, 1955
All [...]
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