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2014
Video: German Motor Show – Frankfurt 1957
March 3rd, 2014
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Video
Pozor!
March 2nd, 2014
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Classifieds & Requests
Another story on Pebble Beach & Tatra
March 2nd, 2014
If there is an official sign of a foreign marque’s “arrival” as a collector car in the American classic-car community, it is arguably the granting of its own class at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The distinction of a featured class has traditionally been bestowed upon very exclusive makes and models. For instance, the [...]
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Events & Meetings
Tatra expands its dealership network to the agricultuaral sector
March 2nd, 2014
Kopřivnická automaker has since January this year, a new partner of its dealer network, which the company P & L Ltd., specializing in trade in agricultural machinery.
Expansion of the dealer network Tatry about company P & L, sro connected with the forthcoming entry model Agrotahač 6×6 on the market, planned for the second half of [...]
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Tatra Works
A marvellous T 603 photo collection
February 27th, 2014
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29725182@N07/page1/
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History
Brno – Soběšice 2013
February 25th, 2014
A T 75 at the 2013 Brno- Soběšice 2013 hillclimb
Many, many more pix at http://www.autorevue.cz/brno–sobesice-2013-chvilemi-pekne-ostry-zavod–142x-foto/ch-49277#articleStart
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Events & Meetings
Prague to Pebble Beach funding unsuccesful
February 16th, 2014
Driving a Tatra 603 from Prague to 2014 Pebble Beach Concours’ Funding has been unsuccessful. This project’s goal was not reached, just $ 5684 was raised, while the organizers hoped to get $ 50.000. The people who initiated the project will not get any as the did not reachthe goal. The people who pledged [...]
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Auctions & Trade
Ferdinand Porsche, Joseph Ledwinka, and the invention of the electric hub motor
February 13th, 2014
Ferdinand Porsche’s use of in-wheel electric motors in some of his earliest automobiles, including the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus, the first hybrid vehicle, established him as an innovator and an engineering genius and certainly helped launch his career in automobile design and construction. He can’t claim to have invented the in-wheel electric motor, however; that credit [...]
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History
In German: Tatra 87 – Auferstehung eines besonderen Automobils
February 13th, 2014
Tatra 87, auch „Achter“ genannt, stellt den Höhepunkt der Konstruktionskunst im tschechischen Automobilwerk Tatra, in Koprivnice dar.
Seine Konstrukteure, Hans Ledwinka und Erich Überlacker haben in dem Automobil alle ihre bisherigen Erfahrungen vereint und sinnvoll realisiert. Luftgekühlter Motor, aerodynamische Karosserie ein leichtes, steifes Fahrwerk mit zentralem tragendem Rohr. Dieses Konzept hat sich über Jahrzehnte auch bei [...]
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Tatra Spotting
Nailed to the ground by a T 87 in Munich
February 9th, 2014
I was in Munich for DLD, a conference, and I had a morning to kill. So I joined a group tour of modern art museum Pinakothek der Moderne’s design wing. There was all kinds of impressive stuff — but I immediately gravitated to a crazy-looking, beautiful car.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-tatra-87-2014-2#here-it-is-just-look-at-it-1
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Miscellaneous, Tatra Spotting