North of Berlin, the GDR was revived with 100s of Eastern Europe vehicles. Thousands of visitors came to view old planes, helicopters, wrecks, cars, trucks and motorcycles at the area of the Aircraft Museum in Schorfheide.
An ubelievable number of Wartburg, Trabant, Barkas, IFA, Skoda, Moskvich, Lada etc.cars enthusiasmed the visitors. Not less than 6 Tatra T 613s were shown.
http://www.formfreu.de/2014/05/04/8-ost-fahrzeugtreffen-luftfahrtmuseum-finowfurt-2/
From April 25 to April 27 was held in Milan in 2014 Autoclassica During the three days of exposition the influx of visitors was large, many of the cars on display, the best car brands, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Mercedes, Abarth, exhibitions auto parts. The stand Tatra was stormed by many visitors, collectors and journalists from magazines. Three models are shown: T87 1939, Tatraplan 1950, Tatra 603, 1961. For the occasion, was presented to the public the car Tatraplan 8V 1950 recently restored.
Dal 25 aprile al 27 aprile si è svolta la Milano Autoclassica 2014Nei tre giorni di esposizione l’afflusso di visitatori è stato numeroso, molte le auto esposte , le migliori marche automobilistiche , Alfa Romeo,Ferrari , Maserati, Fiat, Mercedes, Abarth, esposizioni di ricambi per auto .Lo stand Tatra è stato preso d’assalto da molti visitatori , collezionisti e da giornalisti di riviste del settore. Tre i modelli esposti :T87 del 1939, Tatraplan del 1950 , Tatra 603 del 1961.Per l’occasione è stata presentata al pubblico la vettura TATRAPLAN 8V del 1950 recentemente restaurata.
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4eUvodQLI
(Sent by Mario Mezzera)
This might be a painful sight for classic car enthusiasts. Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW; just a few of the iconic names whose logos you would never expect to find on vehicles in such a sorry state. But what might really shock you is that these unfortunate automobiles are not actually abandoned, and their owner is in fact a classic car lover and expert himself, who has deliberately left these cars here at the mercy of mother nature…
http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/30/the-vintage-supercars-rotting-away-in-a-forest-because-thats-how-the-owner-wants-it/
(originally posted by Gary Cullen on FB)
MOSCOW, April 22 (R-Sport) – Formula One’s upcoming Russian Grand Prix in Sochi caused an unusual casualty Tuesday as the organizers of Russia’s highest-profile rally said it had forced their event to be called off.
The Silk Way rally for off-road cars and trucks was launched in 2009 as an annual competition modeled on the Dakar Rally and has become one of the largest events of its kind in the world.
The 2014 edition was scheduled to cross Russia and Kazakhstan over 3,000km and eight days in July, but organizers said they had decided to cancel it to allow the event’s government backers to focus on promoting October’s F1 Grand Prix in Sochi.
“The country … in several months’ time is to host another strategically important motorsport project and take on the first Formula One race in Sochi,” Silk Way organizing committee head Semyon Yakubov said in a website statement.
“Being a state project and unreservedly acknowledging the priorities of sport, the organizing committee of the Silk Way rally has postponed the 2014 competition to next year.”
The decision was taken “with the aim of balancing the load on those structures tasked with organizing large-scale events,” he added.
The Silk Way rally is widely seen as a key test for teams and drivers targeting victory in the Dakar Rally, especially Russia’s dominant Kamaz truck racing team, which has won its class in four of the five editions of the Silk Way to date.
Kamaz team manager Vladimir Chagin, a seven-time Dakar winner as a driver, said the decision to cancel the 2014 Silk Way was a blow to the sport of cross-country rallying.
“The Silk Way was obviously very necessary to all the teams that compete in the Dakar,” he told R-Sport. “For our team it’s not just a training process, checkup and equipment test, but also a way to reach our Russian fan, a chance for our spectators to see the team and the vehicle not just on television, but in the flesh.”
As a result of the cancelation, the Rallye du Maroc in October will be the only opportunity for top teams to prepare for January’s Sakar, Chagin added. He suggested that F1 had played a part in reducing the financial viability of the Silk Way.
“It hasn’t been possible to finance the race for this year because in the country this year there are other big competitions – the Olympics, Formula One being held for the first time,” he said. “The financial strain is very high.”
Among the previous winners in the off-road class of the Silk Way are former world rally champion Carlos Sainz and ex-F1 driver and Dakar winner Jean-Louis Schlesser.
http://en.ria.ru/sports/20140422/189310614/Top-Russian-Rally-Axed-Due-to-Sochi-F1-Grand-Prix.html
Start of the 2014 rally season was (at least for me) the 2014 Queen’s day rally, a rally held this year fron Nederweert castle up to Nieuw Vennep, a track of 160 km. http://www.vkrit.nl/ About 140 classic cars competed! Though it started in the rain, the wetter quickly became better and in the end we even could enjoy some sunshine.
The T 87 did well after its engine had become noisy last season. Luckily, it was a bearing in the cooling fan that made the engine noisy, and not the engine itself.
If you want a 1:32 scale slot car to race on your Scalextric or Carrera track, you have lots of choice. There are sports cars, racing cars, saloon cars and rally cars available from the modern day and yesteryear. Now added to the list is a 1960 Tatra 603.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/Slot%20cars%202/IMAG0876_1_zpscqtuhstw.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/Slot%20cars%202/IMAG0877_1_zpszwxcewlp.jpg
With the resin bodyshell kit including vacform windows, interior and rally decals, you can build your own Tatra and put it onto an existing slot car chassis. Or if you would like to go to the next level of realism you can fit one of the chase-cars chassis which allows the front wheels to steer and the whole car to lean through the corners.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/Slot%20cars%202/IMAG0801_zpsyqmqzgvj.jpg
The chassis was developed to add some authenticity to 1970s American saloon cars, but works equally well on classic rally cars. If you don’t think a classic saloon should corner like an F1 racing car, a chase-cars chassis could be just the thing. To explain what goes into the chassis, there’s a YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ff2NzKj6U
And for a quick look at how it works with the Tatra, look at these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPgHMhch44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDdImNOw5w
And if you want a running mate for your Tatra, coming soon from chase-cars…. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/603_1000MB_top2_zpsc9884943.jpg
Keep up with developments at www.chase-cars.com or www.facebook.com/chase.cars
Info sent by Gareth Jones
It should be know by mid-April which Tatras will be invited for yhis year’s PB’ Concours d’Elegance.
Today I found an invitation on my doormat to present my T 77a there. Costs for a European participant are enormous though and it will need higher financial creaativity to get the vehicle down there and back.
The closing date of this year’s TFI meeting, at Noordwijkerhout, NL is getting nearer and will expire in a few days.
At this very moment we have confirmed applications of a T 54, six T 57s, three T 75s, one T 77a, two T 97s, two T 87s, a single Tatraplan, two T 1-603s, 11 later T 603s, three T 613 and a T 700. Nevertheless, we are expecting some last-minute bookings.
Invitation English: http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Uitnodiging_Engels_final.pdf
Application form English: http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Aanmeldingsformulier_Engels_final.pdf
Einladung Deutsch: http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Uitnodiging_Duits_final.pdf
Anmeldung Deutsch: http://www.tatraclub.at/images/stories/Dokumente/Aanmeldingsformulier_Duits_final.pdf
RESTAURO TATRAPLAN 600 V8
News from the T.F.I delegazione italiana
After months of work in Pirovano workshop in Cinisello B. it ended Tatraplan 600 engine v8’s
repair, which will be presented to the public for the first time during the event Autoclassica 2014,
which will take place between the 24th and 27th of April at the fair in Milan where we will be
present with our stand “T.F.I. delegazione italiana”.
At the end of the exhibition it will leave for Gargnano BS (Lake Garda), where its owner will drive
it through olive grove and the roads along the shore of the lake.
Notizie dal T.F.i delegazione Italiana
Dopo mesi di lavoro nell’officina meccanica di Pirovano a Cinisello B. (MI)è terminato il restauro
del Tatraplan 600 con motore v8 , che verrà presentata per la prima volta al pubblico, in occasione
del salone Autoclassica 2014 che si terra il 24/27 aprile alla fiera di Milano dove saremo presenti
con il nostro stand T.F.I delegazione italiana.
Alla fine della manifestazione partirà per Gargnano BS (lago di Garda) dove il suo legittimo
proprietario la guiderà tra uliveti e lungo le strade che costeggiano il lago di Garda.
You will find on yutube the two videos of the machine to the link Tatraplan 600 Elsa Spinelli.
RESTAURO TATRAPLAN 600 V8
News from the T.F.I delegazione italiana
After months of work in Pirovano workshop in Cinisello B. it ended Tatraplan 600 engine v8’s
repair, which will be presented to the public for the first time during the event Autoclassica 2014,
which will take place between the 24th and 27th of April at the fair in Milan where we will be
present with our stand “T.F.I. delegazione italiana”.
At the end of the exhibition it will leave for Gargnano BS (Lake Garda), where its owner will drive
it through olive grove and the roads along the shore of the lake.
Notizie dal T.F.i delegazione Italiana
Dopo mesi di lavoro nell’officina meccanica di Pirovano a Cinisello B. (MI)è terminato il restauro
del Tatraplan 600 con motore v8 , che verrà presentata per la prima volta al pubblico, in occasione
del salone Autoclassica 2014 che si terra il 24/27 aprile alla fiera di Milano dove saremo presenti
con il nostro stand T.F.I delegazione italiana.
Alla fine della manifestazione partirà per Gargnano BS (lago di Garda) dove il suo legittimo
proprietario la guiderà tra uliveti e lungo le strade che costeggiano il lago di Garda.
You will find on yutube the two videos of the machine to the link Tatraplan 600 Elsa Spinelli.
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