Every few months we have an interesting piece come in through our donation programs at cardonationwizard. This month’s most interesting donated auto is a 1950 Tatra 600 donated through the American Cancer Society Cars for a Cure Vehicle Donation Program. The Tatra 600 was named the Tatraplan and was a luxury automobile produced inCzechoslovakia, behind the Iron Curtain. [...]
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2014
To be restored Tatraplan donated to the U.S. cancer society
January 30th, 2014
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2014 TFI Rally Netherlands
January 23rd, 2014
ORANJE KUST & GROENE HART RALLY
XXXVII. T.F.I. RALLY
Netherlands, May 29 – June 1, 2014
The 2014 annual TFI meeting will be held in Holland, following a decennium tradition of earlier Duch TFI meetings held in Katwoude (1994) and Lekkerkerk (2004). The meeting, organised by the Tatra Freunde International, will be held at the Ascension [...]
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Ronald Adams witnesses
January 22nd, 2014
Tatra’s former US head insists Czech businessman asked for bribe
Prague, Jan 21 (ČTK) – Ronald Adams, former U.S. director general of Tatra, a lorry maker seated in Moravia, insisted before a Prague court today that Czech businessman Michal Smrž offered him promotion of a public order for Tatra in exchange of 100 million Kč in [...]
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Tatra Works
Ales Loprais looks back
January 20th, 2014
20.1.2014
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
This year – the toughest Dakar in the South America
Before the start of this 36th edition of the Dakar Rally promised the organizers that it will be the toughest competition after moving to the South America. And they completely fulfilled the promise. They prepared a marathon competition [...]
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Karel Loprais looks back a Ales Loprais’ performance
January 20th, 2014
20.1.2014
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
The guys were seen, praised Karel Loprais
Karel Loprais won the Dakar Rally six times. His nephew Aleš finished this year on the sixth place due to technical problems. But even so had Karel only words of praise for Aleš and the whole team.
How would you evaluate this [...]
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Racing & Rallying
The unknown Tatra finishes the Dakar
January 19th, 2014
The two-men crew of Slovakia’s Robert Kasak and Australia’s Scott Tuman
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Racing & Rallying
The Artur Ardavichus and Tomas Vratny teams after the ceremony at Valparaiso
January 19th, 2014
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First ever Phoenix to reach the Dakar finish
January 19th, 2014
Finish in Valparaiso
Dakar Team Holland did it. The Tatra Phoenix crossed the finish line in Valparaiso and thus completed the 2014 Dakar. After long days and short nights it was time for the stage was.
After a wonderful tour of honour in Valparaiso’s center, we were greeted by the large number of enthusiastic people at the [...]
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Loprais comments on the Dakar 2014
January 19th, 2014
We are saying goodbye to the Dakar with gold!
After the Friday’s collapse, when the broken hose of compressor took Aleš Loprais in the penultimate stage hopes on the overall ranking among the top three in this year’s Dakar, came patch on Saturday in the form of the second stage gold! The whole team showed indomitable [...]
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Loprais’navigator Serge Bruynkens frustrated and will leave the Loprais team.
January 19th, 2014
Serge Bruynkens had expected more of this Dakar is an understatement . On the stage win from a few days ago after driving from Antwerp from frustration to frustration culminating in the penultimate stage in which he finished in 34th place . In the position he lost two places and drops from 4 to 6 [...]
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