Bei durchwachsenem Wetter, gaben über 20 Oldies ein Stelldichein in Eggenburg. Einige Teilnehmer kamen heuer zum ersten Mal zum Picknick. Das älteste Automobil, ein Tatra T 30 aus 1934, steuerte Franz Stockinger aus Frauendorf. Das älteste Motorrad, eine BMW R 35 aus 1938, fuhr Horst Bartke aus Ziersdorf. Mit einigen musikalischen Einlagen der Fam. Piffel [...]
T 30 oldest entry at oldtimer picknick in Eggendorf (A)
T 97 for sale
http://www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad183851.html
Galerie Riesenbeck’s new exhibition
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. [...]
T 603A for sale
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
JK 2500
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. [...]
ŠKODA 935 Dynamic at the Bensberg Classics
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 [...]
TRUK rally August 2015
Flying Dutchman Peter Visser’s report: https://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/sets/72157656564881822
Even more pix: https://www.flickr.com/groups/tatracars/
Tatra invests quarter billion crowns
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 [...]
Tatra Grafit
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 [...]
Gert Huzink’s Tatra Phoenix improved for the 2016 Dakar
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/