August 13th, 2015
Glänzende Limousinen als Repräsentanten einer vergangenen Zeit (English text below)
Angermünde (MOZ) Sie glänzen im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes vor Eleganz und aristokratischem Charakter. Einst fuhren sie vor allem Staatsoberhäupter und Wirtschaftsbosse mit Chauffeuren, heute sind es Raritäten, Lieberhaberstücke einer untergegangenen Automobillegende – Tatras. Die größte, einzigartige Sammlung der tschechischen Pkw-Marke ist in Angermünde zu sehen. [...]
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August 9th, 2015
The Czech website http://www.i-veteran.cz/inzerce/?rubrika&slovo=Tatra&prodejnakup=vse&zobrazit=50 offers this T 603A for sale. It was recentely restored by Ecorra http://www.ecorra.com/galerie/preview.php?id_gal=111
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August 9th, 2015
In the 50s, after the Czechoslovak roads plowed most Spartak. A magnificent machine Júlia Kubinského, which almost got into production.
Roadsters or grand tourer and communist Czechoslovakia and do not go together too.However, there have been attempts, but all ended in failure more or less, and often it was the intervention of the communist government. [...]
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August 9th, 2015
Skoda is celebrating 120 years of existence this year and took nine of its rarest classics at the Bensberg Classics exhibition near Cologne, Germany.The major attraction was of course the Skoda 935 Dynamic prototype, a streamlined concept dating back to 1935 which was carefully restored back to its original condition by Skoda themselves. This is [...]
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August 9th, 2015
Flying Dutchman Peter Visser’s report: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/sets/72157656564881822
Even more pix: https://www.flickr.com/groups/tatracars/
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August 9th, 2015
Tatra Kopřivnice automaker is doing such a long time. Two years ago, the traditional Czech manufacturer of heavy vehicles in the auction because of debts, produced little, and the workers went to work only occasionally. After the departure of foreign owners, headed by an American manager Ronald Adams, who ruined factory, Tatra bought a pair [...]
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August 9th, 2015
f you live in the seventies in Czechoslovakia, you have a plan what you want, but your own supercar can hardly stand. Yet it is not so foolish plans do not give up. Vyučíte the farm machinery repairman and in 1978 go to war. In his free time during the two years of service on [...]
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August 9th, 2015
The former Marcel Schoo Tatra Phoenix, now owned by the Riwald Dakar Team, experienced lack of power and brakes that were running too hot in the 2015 Dakar. The Tatra now has a Volvo/Renault engine giving an extra 300 hp and 1200-1300 Nm extra. Brakes are now ceramic ones, giving much improvement.
Engine http://www.riwalddakar.com/2015/300-pk-extra/
Brakes http://www.riwalddakar.com/2015/keramische-remmen/
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August 9th, 2015
(+ Video) machine generated to overcome Czech speed record in history finally checked in. Yet in fact, the fastest in its time it was.
When in 1996 the Tatra replaced an aged model 613 newer T700, it was basically a facelift .Large and robust, but still facelift, further development of the T613 model, because the new car [...]
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June 26th, 2015
http://www.tatratrucks.com/about-the-company/press-and-media/news/
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