Here is a fine photo of Max Mannheimer and his T 87, shot by Ondrej Ertl at the Beskydy Rally of 2001.
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2016
Max Mannheimer and his T 87
October 14th, 2016
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Events & Meetings, Personal
The Autostadt T 87
October 13th, 2016
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tour-130-years-worth-ground-130936843.html
How Max Mannheimer got his T 87
October 6th, 2016
On my seventieth birthday in 1990, my brother Edi fulfilled a secret life-long dream. He gave me a vintage car from 1938, a Czech Tatra in silver, which had converted from a wreck into a high-level car in a month-long restoration: three-liter engine, air cooling, oil circulating pump, 75 hp, top speed 160 kph, Rubens [...]
T 87 owner and Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer (96) has passed away
September 24th, 2016
Max Mannheimer (6 February 1920 Novy Jicin- September 2016 Munich) has passed away in a Munich hospital. He was an author, painter and survivor of the Holocaust. Except for one brother, he lost his entire family in the Holocaust, including his new wife. For decades, he did not speak about his experiences, despite nightmares and [...]
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History
Video: T 87 by Classic Car TV (D)
September 23rd, 2016
The celebration of 80 years T 87 has been kicked off by the German Classic Car TV. They are a little bit early though as is production started in 1937-1938 with two development cars built in 1936 and five prototypes in 1937.
http://www.classic-car.tv/news/80-jahre-tatra-t87/
Tatra: forerunner of the Beetle?
September 21st, 2016
The roots of the Tatra car go back to 1850 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire when Ignatz Schustala opened a wagon and carriage shop in the Moravian town of Nesselsdorf in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Ignatz Shustala & Co. established a good reputation but had limited finances to expand until it found backing from wealthy industrialist Adolf [...]
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Press
Video: Tatra Register Nederland annual meeting 2016
September 20th, 2016
The Tatra Register Nederland held their annual meeting in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. Video by Camiel de Leeuw en Romke van Groning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP4o1N4IJ7Q
Video: Beskydy Rally September 2016
September 16th, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pA8FF2euc
Video: The Introduction of Zatopek’s new book
September 16th, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uho3C2chudk&app=desktop
Tatra T 813 used to broadcast at pirate radio weekend in the Netherlands
September 15th, 2016
http://www.sallandcentraal.nl/kachel-fm-maakt-zich-met-legertruck-op-voor-feestweekend
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