The Czech National Technical Museum reopened its doors last month after a long reconstruction period. The main hall still houses the Museum’s basic Tatra collection: The original Prasident, the Rennzweier, a T 75 convertible, the Thomas Masary T 80, a T 77a and of course the Hanzelka/Zikmund T 87. Cars are now exhibited in periods along vehicles of other brands with contemporary films projected on the walls.
More pix: http://gemik.blog.cz/1102/narodni-technicke-muzeum-fotoprohlidka
British architect Norman Foster recently acquired his freshly restored T 87 in Geneva. It was restored by Ecorra. Watch a video of his T87 on a test drive by Ecorra people: http://auto.idnes.cz/
Foster has become a real streamlined car fanatic, recreating Buckingham Fuller’s Dymaxion: http://boingboing.net/
The T77 was introduced exactly 77 years ago, on March 5th, 1934.
The Tatra Museum honours this memorable day in automotive history.
Czech: http://ostrava.idnes.cz/
Paul Greenstein’s corner garage on Glendale Boulevard doubles as a collector’s paradise. Photographer Gary Leonard and reporter Anthea Raymond get the scoop.
On a recent rainy Sunday, Paul Greenstein greets me and photographer Gary Leonard at his “Den of Antiquity.” Despite the weather, music blasts through the open garage door off Glendale. We enter to see a sprawl of gear and machines inside. A car is on a lift.
“People always walk in and ask me to fix stuff,” Greenstein said. “And I say, ‘No.’ This is mainly for my stuff. “ More….
Finally, proof that T87’s were reverse engineered from Alien spaceships! (well, according to Paul Greenstein)
see also: http://www.cptr.us/tatra.html
A T87 has found a place in the eccentric car section of the Malaga Auto Museum. The museum has an extraordinary collection, presented in thematic areas that describe the different styles which characterize the artistic evolution of the XX century.
A Great variety of representative models of the best marks like Hispano, Bugatti, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Delage, Packard, Jaguar, Mercedes, Ferrari among many others.
High upholstered quality made of Visón, ostrich or crocodile, nacre dashboards, lalique mascots, handles in ivory and silver, precious woods, lights with Swarovsky crystals, exotic ornaments, etc. The top model automobile in all its glory.
The modern car with the art and fashion!
A glamorous collection of “vintage” hats, with pieces from the beginning of the century until the 60s will be exhibited. High fashion with Balenciaga, Dior, Chanel, Schiaparelli, Balmain, etc.
Artists, stylists, journalists, photographers, creative minds in general and other specialists will discover an atmosphere full of masterpieces, sculptures, facilities in relation to the automobile and its history.
An innovative museum ahead of its time in traditional concepts that will certainly be one of the most interesting ones in Europe and that will contribute to make of Malaga an important destination for cultural tourism.
http://www.museoautomovilmalaga.com/ingles/coches/excentricidad.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12700690@N07/5224508554/sizes/l/in/photostream/
IN retrospect, perhaps, it should have seemed inevitable: the Tatra won the 2010 Collectible Car of the Year Contest on nytimes.com.
Yes, the Tatra. Of course.
The what? Read more here……….
The well-known Louwman collection, a collection created by the Louwman family, a Dutch vehicle importer since the beginning of last century and nowadays Toyota importer, have built a new home for its collection in The Hague. After the location found a home in Leidschendam in 1969, in Raamdonksveer in 1989, the collection has now found a new home in a superb, purposely built, 10.000 m three store building. It was openened by H.M. Queen Beatrix last Friday, July 2nd.
The Louwman family started to collect historical automobiles while importing Dodge and Chrysler in the Netherlands. In 1934 they bought their first collectable car, a 1914 Dodge Type 30, one of the oldest surviving Dodges today. The collection steadily grew and now counts over 230 automobiles. Two of them are Ledwinka designed: a 1948 Tatra T87 and a Spatz Victoria bubble car with central tube chassis, designed by Hans Ledwinka in the autumn of his career.
The T 87 is positioned close to the entrance in a hall housing highlight designs of several countries, the T 87, representing Czechoslovakia, accompanied by a Citroen DS, a Volvo 444, a DAF 600, a Toyota 2000GT etc.
Video of HM Queen Beatrix opening the new museum as well as a museumimpression: http://nos.nl/
Louwman Museum: www.louwmanmuseum.nl
Tatra T 87: louwmanmuseum.nl/
earlier article: tatraworld.nl