Tatra fin models T77a, T87, T97, T600 will be on display together for the first time in the UK. Come and visit Tatra Register UK stand 1C125 in Hall 1
http://www.necclassicmotorshow.com/
http://www.tatra-register.co.uk/ http://www.tatraplan.co.uk/
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2010
Tatras at NEC Birmingham Classic Motor Show 2010
November 8th, 2010
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Army purchase of Tatra lorries involved corruption
November 5th, 2010
Prague, Nov 4 (CTK) – The Czech military’s contract for Tatra lorries signed in 2006 and worth 2.6 billion crowns was accompanied by corruption, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes yesterday, referring to information from the military intelligence.
The intelligence tapped the phone of businessman Pavel Stosek who was to secure the lorry deal for [...]
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The 100 Miles: Amsterdam rally for diehards.
November 3rd, 2010
The night of 19-20 December will see the second eidition of a gruesome, strictly prewar night rally along the Amsterdams scariest rural boundaries. Both start and finish will be at equally comfortable and classic premises central in Amsterdam. But while driving you will see the dark, the wet, the sometimes icy and most narrow roads [...]
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Ledwinka exposition visits Düsseldorf
November 3rd, 2010
The Ledwinka exposition “Fom President till the Hall of Fame” is now on show at the Düsseldorf Meilenwek museum.
More pix: http://www.facebook.com/
Info: http://www.czechcentres.cz/
Earlier posting: http://www.tatraworld.nl/
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TFI’s president Ulli Platzek on Oldtimer TV
November 3rd, 2010
Watch a nice video of Ulli’s T 87 circling the Bavarian landscape.
http://www.oldtimer-tv.com/
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Kalina returns to Tatra Loprais Team for 2011 Dakar
November 3rd, 2010
Josef Kalina returns into the navigation seat of the Loprais team for this year’s Dakar rally. Kalina in the past won four Dakar rallies with Karel Loprais. Last year, Kalina teamed up with Martin Macík (LIAZ), to finish an excellent fourth in the South American Dakar. This year he was offered a supporting role however. [...]
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Carrera Panamericana & Tatra
October 28th, 2010
The 2010 version of the Carrera Panamericana ended today. lacarrerapanamericana. As always, the competition was quite colorful. lacarrerapanamericana.
The famous Mexican race, the last really open road race, wiki/Carrera_Panamericana was resurrected in 1988 by Eduardo León Camargo and runs a 7-day, 2,000-mile (3,200 km) route aping some of the original course. It is run, unusually, with official backing on special [...]
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Tatra to use DAF cabins in the near future?
October 25th, 2010
Last year Ronald Adams announced that Tatra will concentrate on chassis technology and would buy other parts as developing bthemselves is too costly. The latest is now that negotiations are proceeding well with DAF, the Paccar owned Dutch truckbuilder. Officially it has not been confirmed by Tatra, but management member on behalf of the unions, [...]
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Geheim wapen in de oorlog
October 25th, 2010
Achter het IJzeren Gordijn stond na de Tweede Wereldoorlog de auto-industrie onder staatstoezicht.
De Comecon stelde duidelijke regels op. In het voormalige Tsjecho-Slowakije moest Skoda zich richten op personenauto’s, Tatra op vrachtwagens.
Tatra deed haar beklag en mocht uiteindelijk ook luxe regeringsauto’s produceren. En jawel, dat werd deze 603 (1956 -1975). Een bijzonder ding vanwege z’n niet [...]
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Video: Tatra MTX V8 in Kanye West’s ‘Runaway’
October 24th, 2010
Chicago MC’s debut short tells story of romance between West and a phoenix played by Selita Ebanks.
Kanye West’s highly anticipated debut film, “Runaway,” finally arrived on Saturday (October 23) and proved to be the “ambitious” effort that fans who previewed the short have been raving about for weeks.
The film’s narrative focuses on the ill-fated relationship [...]
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