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Tatra chosen as most traditional Czech brand.

November 30th, 2016
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Czech brand: Success has Kofola, Tatra and Favorit
November 28, 2016 | Mediaguru | Marketing

Among the Czech brands are etched in the memory of most Kofola, Tatra is the most traditional and most proud we Favorit.
According to a study Czech brand in 2016,which implements the association Czech Top 100 in cooperation with the research agency GfK, he took the last 12 [...]

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Published in History, Tatra Works

Fidel Castro passes away

November 26th, 2016
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Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90.
His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television.
Castro toppled the government in 1959, introducing a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots.
His supporters said he had [...]

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Published in History, Personal

New Hanzelka-Zikmund (coffee-table) book. 272 pages

November 24th, 2016
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November 9, 2016
Traveler Miroslav Zikmund christened on Monday, November 7 at the Museum of Southeast Moravia in Zlin new book called Zikmund and Hanzelka. Publication subtitled Tatra around the world wrote Frantisek Emmert, who in writing the book drew mainly from the Archives of H + Z.
In the book, which was created with the active [...]

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The T 603 by the French daily “Le Monde”

November 22nd, 2016
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Tatra 603, a state-of-the-art limousine for apparatchiks

The legacy automobile of democracies is not limited to the sickly East German Trabant or monumental Soviet ZIL who aped American. Among the cars designed on the other side of the Iron Curtain, it is one that was impressed by his poise and the boldness of his technical choices [...]

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U.S. T 87 sold at ebay

November 22nd, 2016
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Needless Czech automotive hobbyist who would not know Tatra T87, a renowned aerodynamic cars from Kopřivnice. Its chief designer was Hans Ledwinka and T87 is basically the second generation model T77. It was shorter, lighter and more powerful version of the Tatra T77 and had a better driveability. Inside the T87 has a three-liter eight-cylinder [...]

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Published in Auctions & Trade

Miss Saigon was built in Czechoslovakia

November 9th, 2016
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Antique Tatra in exclusive restaurant

There are long, the Tatra T87 (produced in 1940) are all adorned car in front Restaurant Saigon’s downtown area left many passersby glanced always. Because there are not a few other restaurants also showcase classic cars, but not where there are fancy cars such shares.

Tatra T87 display at City CBD international [...]

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Streamline exhibition in Friedrichshafen

November 7th, 2016
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http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/en/ausstellungen/ausstellung.php?event=118
German text: http://www.zeppelin-museum.de/de/ausstellungen/ausstellung.php?event=106

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603 engined Tatraplan for sale

November 4th, 2016
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http://www.prewarcar.com/postwarclassic/classifieds/by-make/tatra-2.html

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Czech T 87 stamp

November 4th, 2016
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Historical means of transport – car Tatra 87
Release Date: 21st September 2016 Name of issue: Historic Transport: Tatra 87 Nominal value: CZK 16 Catalog number: 903 Graphic design: Vaclav Zapadlík Print sheets: 50 stamps in a check register: 25 + 25 pcs car biplane Image Dimensions stamp: 40 x 23 Type of print: full color [...]

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Published in Miscellaneous

Behind the wheel of Tatra 2-603: Admired and Damned

November 4th, 2016
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Tatra 603 Charismatic representative cars from the 50s to 70s.While some remember him as technically avant-garde designed car, others are associated with one-party rule and everything connected with it. Let’s ride!

Meeting with Tatra 603 was always a special event. During the time of the previous regime, if you’re not leaders “of his party,” then [...]

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