This 1928 Tatra 12 is said to be one of only one in the US. Engineered by the criminally underrated Hans Ledwinka, these cars featured the same novel tube backbone chassis with swing axles and integral engine mounting as pioneered by the earlier 11—a design carried over to later streamliner V8 cars and still in [...]
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2014
Rare 4 door T 12 for sale
February 9th, 2014
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T 87 for sale
February 7th, 2014
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/tatra/unspecified/1626837.html
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Crich (UK) cancels popular classic events
February 7th, 2014
A series of dedicated marque days for classics held at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire has been cancelled for 2014.
Owners of Morris Minors, Minis, Volkswagen Beetles and Type 2s and fans of Eastern Bloc classics have all expressed disappointment at the loss of the events at the museum.
Laura Greaves, the Marketing & Business [...]
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Tribute to Tatras to take place at Pebble Beach
February 7th, 2014
Tatra may not enjoy the same familiarity as other automakers of the 20th century, but the Eastern European firm contributed many an engineering advance to the automobile world, some of them little recognized until decades after the fact. Next August, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to Tatra by giving the under-appreciated automaker [...]
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more on the Tatra T600 Tatraplan for cancer research
February 5th, 2014
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140204/CARNEWS01/140209952
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Looking for a RHD Tatraplan? The Australian York Motor Museum is selling theirs!
February 4th, 2014
One of the few Tatras known to reside in Australia, this T600 Tatraplan is understood to have been the Melbourne Motor Show car and previously belonged to a devotee of the Czech marque, a Mr Gerge Stehleg from Brighton, Victoria. Mr Stehleg also owned a 1963 T603 and restored this 1952 model (one of only [...]
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The story behind the Human Cannonball Tatraplan
February 2nd, 2014
Human Cannonball Tatra T600Oh, it does blow a bit of smoke (Castrol R)…and it doesn’t run air-cleaners…BUT(T) you can use the fan to slice your cheese!This just in from the owner of the 1.5 1950 Tatra T600 project:
“Hey there,
I wanted to thank you for posting the “ambitious” Tatra project on the site. I bought the [...]
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Tatragate India:Beni Prasad Verma suspects Mulayam Singh Yadav hand in Tatra truck deal
February 2nd, 2014
Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma has virtually opened a can of worms for Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav just before the Lok Sabha election. He alleged here on Saturday that as defence minister, Mulayam played a crucial role in renewing the Tatra truck deal in which crores of rupees are alleged to [...]
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Tatra Works
Studebaker studied Tatra’s technology
January 31st, 2014
The 1930 Tatra T26/30 was a very important vehicle in the companies history, as it was the forerunner of all Tatra trucks to come with rear-wheel independent suspension, a central tube chassis and an aluminum, air-cooled boxer-type engine driving through a transmission with six forward and two reverse speeds. The axle differentials can be locked [...]
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Aero-Minor, Skoda and Tatra gifts for Stalin’s 70th birthday; Aero-Minor now found back
January 30th, 2014
Sincere hearts gusts Czechoslovak workers, enthusiastic eyes of tens of thousands of residents of Prague, loud public speech, then the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow and the hospital for many years disgrace and oblivion, accidental discovery and serious historical investigation – all came together in the history of this small car, designed the great leader.
The last [...]
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