Every decade Tatra celebrates the first trip of their very first automobile from Koprivnice to Vienna by organising a rally in the reversed direction. Ther last decades it was jointly organised by the TVCC Koprivnice and the Tatra Freunde International but due to organisational problems in 2007, the TVCC Koprivnice decided to go it alone but was this year supported by the Tatra Works, who did not show interest in the Tatra classic car scene in the past. With its production going quite well, Tatra stepped in and promoted their trucks en route with several (classic) Tatra Dakar trucks on the competitors’ list.
BRATISLAVA
The Slovak capital Bratislava was chosen as the place where all Tatras gathered.
Bratislava was left on June 22nd. Finish after a one hour drive was at the Vienna Military History Museum where the 120 Year Tatra rally (the short name) officially started. Alle competitors from Bratislava made it to Vienna and were joined by competitors who had chosen Vienna as their starting point.
VIENNA
The Tatra Museum had brought their Prasident replica but it regrettably failed to start.
The rally was opened officially and all the cars were presented to the public by a professional speaker.
Off we go. The 1924 T 11 was the first car to be flagged away.
1932 T 57
1932 T 54/30
1938 T 57a
1934 T 70a
Hans Ledwinka (grandson) was also present and interviewed
1934 T 57 sport
1940 T 57b
Martin Kolomy and his 1996 Phoenix Dakar
Two Slovak T 87s
Not less than five T 700s participated.
This report will be continued in part 2.
VIDEO of Rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8pFBzdpb0&t=25s