Czech producer Dino Toys plans a come-back next season of the plastic Tatra 148, the famous sandbox toy.
The company presented the Dino Toys at Toy Fair Toys and Games For 2013 Letňanech large plastic truck Tatra, with which the Company intends to conquer the playground. Orange Tatra 148 model was one of the indispensable components sandboxes eighties of the last century due to its robustness served not only rides on the sand, but also the children themselves.
manufacturer is seeking to meet the demand of today’s parents nostalgic for toys from the time of their adolescence. Recently, a similar company Efko managed to resuscitate plastic dolls sold under the name Igráček and the like of nostalgia for many years benefited more Czech toy maker company Mercury. Also manufacturer of inflatable products company Fatra trying to market return series of designer toys from the 70s.
Tatra 613
…with a hint of Porsche
Four doors, five seats, V8 – and an air-cooled rear-engine. Is this the car that Porsche should have built instead of the 928? Should they be building something like it instead of the Panamera?
http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/features/octane_features/237115/tatra_613.html
Tatra 603 was prepared in secret despite comrades. On the road proved much
Tatra 603 was a show car Czechoslovak production, but which is not easy childhood. It was conceived in secrecy, so that they did not know or senior comrades. Then it but had, the ability to car shows and contemporary film.
It seemed incredible, but in 1951 the Czechoslovak government issued a regulation, which banned the production kopřivnické Tatra cars. Fabrika should focus only on heavy machinery. In that time, but was in Kopřivnice many people who did not want to manufacture well-known luxury car just fell. Jali is therefore prepare a new project model completely secretly and without the knowledge of the then power brokers. So in Prague design office sat drawing board for Vladimir Popelář or Francis Kardaus to design a new car for Tatra for better times. They worked on it for several years in fear of discovery. Even had prepared and replacement projects, which would in any forthcoming visit to disguise the car. In 1954 Tatra already but again received permission to produce a car so they could get to work legally.
A car that engineers had developed but did not meet the basic award for sedans for party tips, it was rather cut sports car. Yet it eventually after further adjustments popped desired model with a length of more than five meters and a wheelbase of 2750 mm, which provided plenty of space for passengers and even their luggage – not only imposed under the front hood, but also for the back seats. course there was the air-cooled eight-cylinder petrol with OHV laid back. The 2.5-liter power reached 95 horses. He consulted a four-speed manual gearbox with a lever under the steering wheel. Motor powered rear axle. The car could dash speeds up to 160 km / h
In addition, all captivated by its beauty. The first series of Tatra 603 has three lamps placed under one cover glass on curved bow. Body type illustrate various chrome accessories, big lamps on the sides, air intakes for engine cooling or flowing aft. Beautiful is a combination of paint with a white roof. Thus, the first prototype rolled out in 1955, and a year later launched a test series with minor modifications, and full production began 1957. tartrate 603 was truly a luxury car. Unlike its possible successor to Tatra 613 was the sale of the public, so it could get even an ordinary citizen. He must be very rich but which at the time of the currency reform was not so usual case. Tatra 603 starting price at 98,000 crowns. It was three times more than the Skoda Octavia Super.
The Golden Sixties
Sixties Tatra 603 belonged. It has become popular not only in the Czech chiefs, but also in other friendly countries of the Eastern bloc. She appeared in Cuba. In 1961 he produced in 1332, which was the highest in the existence of the model. A year later, he introduced a new version called Tatra 2-603. Here is recognizable for its treatment bow at the back are also more light.
Modernization through the interior of the vehicle. We got news, such as starting the engine by turning the key (before pressing). Osmiválec now reached a higher output of 105 hp and Tatra with him was still able to scoot 160 km / h and at 100 km / h consume about 13 liters of petrol per 100 km. second model, however, did not produce too long. Already in 1968, the road got its next version, identified as Tatra 2-603 II. To identify it again well served by the bow, where there are four lights farther apart and connects one rounded chrome strip. Logo lights went between the middle and text TATRA is pronounced. Two survived in the program until 1965 before it replaced the model Tatra 613 A total of 20,422 units produced this beautiful luxury car.
It is interesting film Bon Voyage (Happy Journay) in 1962. Twelve-minute film is an international advertisement for Tatra 2-603. I therefore have a strange police uniforms and the car is the inscription POLICE. Film shows what is possible with Tatra driver handle and yet many times against the rules. Yet his end members to congratulate driving. Check out:
Tatra 603 was prepared in secret despite comrades.
Tatra 603 was a show car Czechoslovak production, but which is not easy childhood. It was conceived in secrecy, so that they did not know or senior comrades. Then it but had, the ability to car shows and contemporary film.
It seemed incredible, but in 1951 the Czechoslovak government issued a regulation, which banned the production kopřivnické Tatra cars. Fabrika should focus only on heavy machinery. In that time, but was in Kopřivnice many people who did not want to manufacture well-known luxury car just fell. Jali is therefore prepare a new project model completely secretly and without the knowledge of the then power brokers. So in Prague design office sat drawing board for Vladimir Popelář or Francis Kardaus to design a new car for Tatra for better times. They worked on it for several years in fear of discovery. Even had prepared and replacement projects, which would in any forthcoming visit to disguise the car. In 1954 Tatra already but again received permission to produce a car so they could get to work legally.
A car that engineers had developed but did not meet the basic award for sedans for party tips, it was rather cut sports car. Yet it eventually after further adjustments popped desired model with a length of more than five meters and a wheelbase of 2750 mm, which provided plenty of space for passengers and even their luggage – not only imposed under the front hood, but also for the back seats. course there was the air-cooled eight-cylinder petrol with OHV laid back. The 2.5-liter power reached 95 horses. He consulted a four-speed manual gearbox with a lever under the steering wheel. Motor powered rear axle. The car could dash speeds up to 160 km / h
In addition, all captivated by its beauty. The first series of Tatra 603 has three lamps placed under one cover glass on curved bow. Body type illustrate various chrome accessories, big lamps on the sides, air intakes for engine cooling or flowing aft. Beautiful is a combination of paint with a white roof. Thus, the first prototype rolled out in 1955, and a year later launched a test series with minor modifications, and full production began 1957. tartrate 603 was truly a luxury car. Unlike its possible successor to Tatra 613 was the sale of the public, so it could get even an ordinary citizen. He must be very rich but which at the time of the currency reform was not so usual case. Tatra 603 starting price at 98,000 crowns. It was three times more than the Skoda Octavia Super.
The Golden Sixties
Sixties Tatra 603 belonged. It has become popular not only in the Czech chiefs, but also in other friendly countries of the Eastern bloc. She appeared in Cuba. In 1961 he produced in 1332, which was the highest in the existence of the model. A year later, he introduced a new version called Tatra 2-603. Here is recognizable for its treatment bow at the back are also more light.
Modernization through the interior of the vehicle. We got news, such as starting the engine by turning the key (before pressing). Osmiválec now reached a higher output of 105 hp and Tatra with him was still able to scoot 160 km / h and at 100 km / h consume about 13 liters of petrol per 100 km. second model, however, did not produce too long. Already in 1968, the road got its next version, identified as Tatra 2-603 II. To identify it again well served by the bow, where there are four lights farther apart and connects one rounded chrome strip. Logo lights went between the middle and text TATRA is pronounced. Two survived in the program until 1965 before it replaced the model Tatra 613 A total of 20,422 units produced this beautiful luxury car.
It is interesting film Bon Voyage (Happy Journay) in 1962. Twelve-minute film is an international advertisement for Tatra 2-603. I therefore have a strange police uniforms and the car is the inscription POLICE. Film shows what is possible with Tatra driver handle and yet many times against the rules. Yet his end members to congratulate driving. Check out:
One of the best-kept secrets of the automotive world is the Lane Motor Museum, a collection of about 400 (mostly European) classic cars that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend. A 132,000-square-foot former Sunbeam Bakery, it’s now a spruced-up display space for the eclectic and impressive collection that has been put together by Jeff Lane, a mechanical engineer who grew up outside Detroit and inherited his dad’s love of British sports cars.
The 1955 MG TF 1500 Lane Motor Museum
A glance across the wide-open space that features a rotating stock of about 150 cars gives you the initial impression that this car guy simply collected one of everything he liked. But after looking at just a few of the cars on display and the informative plaques that accompany each—make, model, year of manufacture, and little vignettes of how and where they were found or donated—you quickly realize that this is a very well-curated collection. And every car has a story.
Perhaps the car with the best story is the beautifully restored 1955 MG TF 1500, in British racing green. It is the first car that Mr. Lane restored, and there’s a picture of him when he began the project at just 12 years old. There’s also a faded picture of him four years later, in 1976, taking his state driving test in the classic British roadster.
While this is one of the best European car collections in the U.S., clearly Mr. Lane has his favorites. Among them: nearly 20 vehicles from Tatra that tell the evolutionary story of the Czech carmaker and its revolutionary designer, Hans Ledwinka. As one panel here explains, Ledwinka was one of the first designers to realize that the automobile would one day become common in nearly every household. As the chief engineer at Tatra beginning in 1921, he revolutionized engine design, suspension systems and aerodynamics.
Among his works on display here is a 1935 T-57—nicknamed Hadimrška, or “swift little lizard.” It was equipped with a 1,256cc, air-cooled, four-cylinder engine that had a top speed of 50 miles per hour and mechanical brakes. There is also a 1938 T-97 that looks remarkably similar to the Volkswagen Beetle that Ferdinand Porsche later designed for Adolf Hitler. During a walking tour of the collection, Mr. Lane explained that production of the T-97 was forbidden after 1939 because it looked too much like Nazi Germany’s “people’s car.”
When the Communists took over from the Nazis, things changed at Tatra again. Shown here is the 1958 T-603 Saloon, one of the large sedans developed and built exclusively for party high officials and export to other Communist countries, such as Cuba. Ordinary Czechs couldn’t purchase it.
Another designer Mr. Lane clearly admires is Marcel Leyat. The museum has dedicated a small alcove to a special exhibit on the French designer and the centenary of the first propeller-driven car he built. The museum also has a re-creation of Leyat’s 1919 Helico, his most successful propeller-driven car, as well as a replica of the unique pilot-training trailer that he developed.
A propeller-driven car? One problem for early aviation, the exhibit explains, was that no plane could carry more than a single person. So how could you teach someone to fly? According to Mr. Lane, most would-be pilots were given instructions on the ground, then forced to solo their first time up. Leyat developed a special flatbed trailer that could be towed behind a car. A flight trainer sat on the trailer and, thanks to the wind generated by the speeding car, student pilots could move controls and feel how an aircraft would react in flight.
As much as some of these early car designers wanted everyone to own a car, not everyone could afford one. This was especially true in economically devastated Europe after World War II. This led to the development of affordable, efficient micro cars, which are highly sought after by Mr. Lane and other fans. One of the most eye-catching is the 1965 Peel P-50, the smallest one-person micro car ever made. The P-50 is just 4-feet-5-inches long, 3-feet-3-inches wide; has a 49cc fan-cooled engine with a top speed of 35 mph; weighs 250 pounds and originally cost just £200 ($318 today). It has no reverse gear, but a “reverse handle” that let anybody pick up the back end and swing it out of a parking space.
Mr. Lane has developed a network of automobile enthusiasts who both donate cars to the museum, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and volunteer to restore cars. Among the other unique vehicles he has on display are a 1964 German-made Amphicar, the most successful amphibious car ever produced; a 1922 Buick Speedster that participated in the modern-day re-creation of the Great Race; and a 1932 Lancia Dilambda, one of the earliest Italian luxury cars.
What’s perhaps most impressive about this collection is that Mr. Lane says that 95% of the cars are in working order and the staff goal is to drive each one at least twice a year.
“A car is meant to be driven,” he said. “It’s not a painting.”
Maybe so, but they’re great to look at just sitting idle.
Mr. Yost is a writer in Houston.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579135443484561868
Kopřivnické museum show promotion Tatry in the years 1945-1992
The all in the years 1945 to 1992 dealt promotional department of the Tatra shows from Friday LAsske museum, which is housed in the former Šustala Koprivnice on Novojičínsko.
The exhibition will be on display posters, brochures, badges, stickers and other promotional items, said spokeswoman Lucie Kopřivnická Petříčková.
According to curator Paul Dvorak was an essential part of business promotion complex process of car production.
“Promotion Division found, although it may seem at first glance, had probably the greatest impact, leaving aside the cars themselves, forming the image of the entire company, the formation of a resonant name in our country and abroad, and create ‘atmosphere’ car ‘ said Dvorak. The department alongside traditional advertising Tatra donated products and documentation center and factories, providing celebrations, decoration company or issuing a racing magazine.
The exhibition documenting the history of TATRA people can see to 24 November. The opening ceremony of the 6th September at 17:00. Admission to the museum is 40 CZK, children pay half.
The Lašské Musem shows Tatra’s promotion articles from 1945 to 1992 The museum is housed in the former Šustala villa in Koprivnice.
The exhibition displays posters, brochures, badges, stickers and other promotional items, said spokeswoman Lucie Kopřivnická Petříčková.
According to curator Paul Dvorak it was an essential part of business promotion complex process of car production.
“Promotion Division found, although it may seem at first glance, had probably the greatest impact, leaving aside the cars themselves, forming the image of the entire company, the formation of a resonant name in our country and abroad, and create ‘atmosphere’ car ‘ said Dvorak. The department alongside traditional advertising Tatra donated products and documentation center and factories, providing celebrations, decoration company or issuing a racing magazine.
The exhibition documenting the history of TATRA people can see till 24 November.
Admission to the museum is 40 CZK, children pay half.
President Miloš Zeman arrived in Kopřivnice business travel includes the regions of the Czech Republic third October, accompanied by the Head Office of the President Henry Forejt and Moravia Governor Miroslav Novak. Presidential visit to welcome Chairman Petr Rusek.
First, the president met with the owners of René mater and Jaroslav Strnad, top management, Board of Directors, Supervisory Board and the Director subsidiaries Taforge, Tafonco and former subsidiary Tawesco, which still ranks among the leading suppliers of Tatra Trucks .
This was followed by a meeting with the employees on the shop floor main assembly. Here, in addition shows the current models of Tatra trucks waiting for the president and a pleasant surprise in the form of limousines T700, which used to go as prime minister. When he was offered to take a seat on the passenger side, could not resist. Looking at the dashboard remembered for her only proposal to upgrade the car, and subsequently attached to the “ashtray” .
After visiting vehicles president spoke to employees from the top model Phoenix . It also stated that the Tatra cheers, and promised kopřivnické brand support during their trips abroad.
“On Sunday, me going for the director of procurement in Israel. When I was in Poland, I lobbied for 800 Tatra trucks for the Polish army, and I promise that I will continue to do, ” said President Miloš Zeman before employees Tatry.
Opportunity to address the president and ask him questions to get his wish also employees. President Zeman during his speech expressed his optimistic belief that Kopřivnice now waiting for better times.
“It is important that the automaker was competitive. I see no reason why it should not have big sales, even though it will not fifteen thousand units per year as it once was, ” said Miloš Zeman employees.
President Miloš Zeman arrived in Kopřivnice business travel includes the regions of the Czech Republic third October, accompanied by the Head Office of the President Henry Forejt and Moravia Governor Miroslav Novak. Presidential visit to welcome Chairman Petr Rusek.
First, the president met with the owners of René mater and Jaroslav Strnad, top management, Board of Directors, Supervisory Board and the Director subsidiaries Taforge, Tafonco and former subsidiary Tawesco, which still ranks among the leading suppliers of Tatra Trucks .
This was followed by a meeting with the employees on the shop floor main assembly. Here, in addition shows the current models of Tatra trucks waiting for the president and a pleasant surprise in the form of limousines T700, which used to go as prime minister. When he was offered to take a seat on the passenger side, could not resist. Looking at the dashboard remembered for her only proposal to upgrade the car, and subsequently attached to the “ashtray” .
After visiting vehicles president spoke to employees from the top model Phoenix . It also stated that the Tatra cheers, and promised kopřivnické brand support during their trips abroad.
“On Sunday, me going for the director of procurement in Israel. When I was in Poland, I lobbied for 800 Tatra trucks for the Polish army, and I promise that I will continue to do, ” said President Miloš Zeman before employees Tatry.
Opportunity to address the president and ask him questions to get his wish also employees. President Zeman during his speech expressed his optimistic belief that Kopřivnice now waiting for better times.
“It is important that the automaker was competitive. I see no reason why it should not have big sales, even though it will not fifteen thousand units per year as it once was, ” said Miloš Zeman employees.
Then lightning struck one day while I was driving north on Highway 1 around Bodega Bay. Two silver Tatra T87s flew by in the opposite direction. I was captivated by the aerodynamic silhouette and the unique details. When I saw the dorsal fin on the back and the third headlight I knew I had to have one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cars/myride/article/1951-Tatra-T600-4866656.php
