December 6th, 2019

All American and European large rear-engined four-door cars

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/big-rear-engined-four-door-cars-part-1-american-attempts/

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-european/big-rear-engined-four-door-cars-part-2-european-efforts/

Categorie: History

November 30th, 2019

Sunday Times and the Guardian Reviews: Cars:Accelerating the Modern World review – revolutions behind the wheel

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/interview/cars-accelerating-modern-world-qa-curator-new-va-exhibition/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/23/cars-accelerating-the-modern-world-review-v-and-a-victoria-albert-museum

Categorie: History, Museums, Press

November 25th, 2019

“The Tatraplan is the only car I should kill for.”

Video: Araun Gordijn paints. The video includes a Tatraplan in a scrapyard with the painter expressing his love for the brand. Text is Dutch, but has English captions.

https://conam.info/nieuws/nieuws-1/3410-documentaire-over-araun-gordijn

The pix below are Tatra-related watercolors and paintings by Araun Gordijn. They are not mentioned in the documentary video.

T77a’s and Gerrit Rietveld designed villa “Rhapsody” in Bloemendaal/ NL, The villa was designed in 1934 by architect Rietveld for the violinist and composer Zoltán Székely in 1934. The name of the house, Rhapsody, refers to a composition by Bela Bartok.

Special house located on a spacious lot offering privacy. The villa was designed in 1934 by architect Rietveld for the violinist and composer Zoltán Székely. The house has many original details.

Rietveld designed his home for the Hungarian violinist and composer Zoltán Székely in 1934. The name of the house, Rhapsody, refers to a composition by Bela Bartok. Bartok composed a piece of music especially for his good friend Zoltan Szekely and his new house.

T87s and Tatraplan in Voorstraat, Harlingen, NL

T87s in the Tatra mountains

Three T87s at filling station in either The Hague or Noordwijk. Cover of Gordijn’s book “Filling stations 1988-2008″

T87 at OK filling station in the North of the Netherlands

Categorie: Personal, Tatra Classic Car News, Video

November 19th, 2019

T603 (T708) Turbine phantasies by Andrej Troha

https://andrejt.artstation.com/projects/Aexoo

Categorie: Miscellaneous

November 19th, 2019

The fine result of the long restauration of a Tatra 500 HB(Mountain Bus)

https://www.facebook.com/autobuscz.sro/photos/pcb.1229081917294600/1229079960628129/?type=3&theater

Categorie: History, Restoration

November 15th, 2019

Remembering the cars behind the iron curtain

https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/news/2019/11/axons-automotive-anorak-former-iron-curtain-carmakers—post-berlin-wall-collapse/

Categorie: History, Press

November 15th, 2019

Tatra T603: It’s a woman!

A very neat coffee-table book on the T603 was published recently. It is a representative book about the legendary Tatra 603. On 384 pages he will personally tell you his life story. The book is richly illustrated with 354 images, including unique studio photos and a number of unpublished archive images.

Website: https://www.heritageandzoom.com/

Scroll through the book: https://www.heritageandzoom.com/p/tatra-603-jsem-zenska/#&gid=1&pid=1

Categorie: Auctions & Trade, Classifieds & Requests, History, Literature & Manuals

November 11th, 2019