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TATRA WORLD SERVICE PAGE
TATRA WORLD Pyreneeën 7 1060 NP Amsterdam Netherlands tel/fax: + 31 20 6103393 e-mail: webmaster@tatraworld.nl URL: www.tatraworld.nl
Tatra World is meant as an independent Tatra newsletter for the Tatra classic car enthusiast. With the help of correspondents and visitors we hope that TW will become a forum where all the ins and out of the Tatra classic car scene will find a home.
Tatra World is also meant to be a gate to all other Tatra sites by showing its visitors the important ins and outs of several other Tatra sites. By this thematic approach and more than 250 Links page we hope that all Tatra sites will be better accessible.
But Tatra World has more. Main feature is a frequently updated LATEST NEWS page offering Tatra news from all over the world. Everybody who feels he has something worthwhile to add to Tatra World is invited to e-mail his experience about his or her local Tatra scene.
Of course an AGENDA is featured that reminds you of anything important happening in our Tatra World.
We consider BACKGROUND stories as extremely interesting. We want them from you and we will publish them. There must be numerous stories around in the back of the heads of fellow Tatra enthusiasts about restorations, meetings, every-day driving etc. Tell us! Articles are welcomed both in German and English.
To exchange your thoughts with other Tatra lovers, TW offers an interactive FORUM. It is a common project with the web site of Tatra Freunde International from Austria to attract enthusiasts from both English and German speaking countries. Just surf to the Forum and exchange ideas in German or English.
Like the forum, the classifieds page is a common project with Tatra Freunde International e.v. Just mail your ads to either TW and your free ad will appear on our common classifieds page.
Though Tatra World is mainly written in English, all other modern languages are welcomed. Language cannot be the problem as the Babel Fish TRANSLATION SERVICE and two ON LINE DICTIONARIES make it possible to read these pages in the language of your choice. Don't expect a perfect translation however.
Another forum and once more a common project of Tatra World and Tatra Freunde International, the "Literature comment and review forum" is restricted to your comments on anything published about Tatra. It will help you to judge offered literature, both new and used offered at auctions.
The men behind Tatra World
Editor and creator of Tatra World is Kees Smit (Amsterdam 1949). He has been a well known Tatra enthusiast for long now and founded the Dutch Tatra Register Nederland where he acted as chairman for 13 years before handing over the chairmanship to the present board.
His fascination for Tatra started in the mid seventies when he used to visit Prague with some fellow friends every year in February, doing sightseeing for a couple of days and having a beer at U Fleku.
He became fascinated by Tatra streamliners and managed to buy a T 87 in 1979 and a T 603 in 1982. With the T 603 he started to attend foreign Tatra meetings, before deciding to organize the Tatra hobby in Holland.
His big dream became a T 77a however. As this car was extremely rare, he was lucky to find two wreckages in the early eighties. He could export the car without any problem but lacked the means and skills to restore it.
Not until the mid-nineties, he saw a possibility to start its restoration. Finishing of the car is scheduled for 2002. Kees Smit is a historian and psychotherapist
The man who made Tatra World possible however by doing the technical job is his son Guido Smit (Amsterdam, 1986) who started the job late November 2000.
Gary Cullen (CAN)
Uwe Engberts (D) Mein Hobby "Tatra" betreibe ich seit 1984. Da habe ich meinen ersten Tatra, einen 12er Baujahr 1931, erworben. Zunächst bin ich alleine zu den Tatra-Treffen gefahren. Inzwischen fährt auch meine Ehefrau gerne mit . Da ich damals wenig Erfahrung mit Tatra hatte (Tatra war für mich nur als Lastkraftwagen ein Begriff) bin ich auf der Suche nach Informationen an den Club der Tatra-Freunde (jetzt Tatra-Freunde International) geraten. Von diesem habe ich dann, nachdem ich Mitglied geworden bin, alle nötigen Unterlagen bekommen, um meinen ersten Tatra zu restaurieren. Bei meinen ersten Museumsbesuch 1985 in Koprivnice CZ, habe ich dann weitere Erkenntnisse gewonnen, sowie viele gleichgesinnte getroffen und erst Kontakte geknüpft. Der Tatra-Virus war nun auch nicht mehr afzuhalten. Viele Freundschaften innerhalb der Tatra-Welt habe ich seitdem geschlossen. Später habe ich dann einen völlig ausgebrannten 75er erworben, der dann nach 5jähriger Restauration 1994 fertig wurde. Beide Tatras habe ich selbst restauriert.
Gavin Farmer (AUS)
Hello Tatra enthusiasts.
My name is Gavin Farmer and I'm a motoring Manfred Haspel (A)
Ich bin ( manchmal auch ) Grafik-Designer und daher anfällig für visuelle Eindrücke. Gutes Design schätze ich sehr, mein erster Oldtimer war 1988 ein Volvo 1800 Coupe (Simon Templar) wegen seiner schönen Linien. Walther, ein Freund bat mich und mein zweites Ego Wolfgang, bei einer Rally mitzufilmen (mein anderer Beruf ) an der er mit einem Tatra 57 teilnahm.( Beskidenrally 1990). Tatra war bis dahin für mich nur der Hersteller der schrulligen Vorkriegs-tschitti-tschitti-bäng-bäng´s und den Plastikstossstangen bewehrten, eckigen kommunistischen 613-Bonzen Schlitten. Am Parkplatz in Horny Bezvar sahen Wolfgang und ich dann zum erstenmal einen 87er ...
Seither sammeln wir alles mit luftgekühlten V-8 Heckmotoren . Drei unserer Tatras fahren wieder (603-1, 603-3, 613-1) alle anderen warten noch auf ihre Restaurierung. 1999 erfüllte ich mir einen Traum, eine Reise in die Wüste. Das Fahrzeug dazu war ein T 805, der von uns in 2 Jahre aufgebaut wurde.
Die Erlebnisse auf dieser Reise waren einzigartig, z.B. mit einem 45 Jahren alten Fahrzeug technische Probleme mitten in der Wüste zu bekommen, 300 km von jeder Ansiedlung entfernt ...
Die Erlebnisse mit den 603/613ern sind echte Liebesgeschichten. Der Himmel, wenn der Tatra in der Sonne dahinschnurrt, die Beifahrerin wohlwollend lächelt und man die Ovationen der anderen Verkehrsteilnehmer und Passanten gelassen entgegen nimmt. Die Hölle ist, wenn der Tatra nicht will und die Beifahrerin nach dem Abschleppdienst fragt ...
Jean Vaucher / Jean Claude Lerat (F)
Ian Tisdale (UK)
Hello
Tatra World!
Kenneth Uffheil (USA)
Peter Visser (NL)
Dobry den to all Tatra enthusiasts!
My name is Peter Visser, a history and language teacher by profession and proud owner of a 1969 T 603 and a 1948 T 87. I’m the secretary of the Dutch ‘Tatra Register Nederland’ and thus, hopefully, qualified to let you know what’s happening in the small but blossoming Dutch Tatra scene. My love for the Tatra cars goes back to the early seventies of the last century, when as a poor student I used to visit the countries of the then Warsaw Pact. Life was cheap there, the beer was good, the Tatras most impressive…. And, as it turned out, never to be forgotten. Years later – the Iron Curtain had come down – I visited Prague again. On my way to the baker’s I happened to see a tired T 603, now no longer the symbol of communist power, but still as impressive and beautiful as in the days of old. Forgotten were my loaves and buns, I followed that car through Prague instead! Some days later I found one which was for sale…. and the rest is history, as they say. Both
my Tatra cars, though not
in perfect museum state, are driven regularly and are well up to their
job. The 87 even had the honor once to transport Mrs. Bambásova, the
Czech Ambassador to the Netherlands.
Vacancy: CZ Vacancy: SK
Tatra World Pyreneeën 7 1060 NP Amsterdam Netherlands tel/fax: + 31 20 6103393 e-mail: webmaster@tatraworld.nl URL: www.tatraworld.nl
Manfred Haspel for his Tatra logos Rolf Kroes for scanning photos theodora.com for their flags www.atlas.cz for their maps
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