Becoming a tradition, the Dutch event moved to another part of the Netherlands, to Dalfsen, a village 100 km east of Amsterdam. Watch Scaldias, Volgas, Trabants, Ladas, Wartburgs, Skodas, Barkases, Tatras and motorcycles. Â With two T 603s and a T 613 attending, Tatra did their share.
Bert Barents sent a photo report.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=52A884B5A1274D8C&id=52A884B5A1274D8C%2117290&sc=photos
East European Vehicle Day
Video: New Tatra fire fighter vehicle for Perleberg
Neues Tanklöschfahrzeug wurde am Samstag feierlich an die Ortswehr übergeben
PERLEBERG – Große Spannung herrschte am Samstagnachmittag auf dem Großen Markt von Perleberg. Abordnungen von Feuerwehren aus dem Landkreis Prignitz und der Partnerwehr aus dem polnischen Szczawnica waren gekommen, um dem feierlichen Augenblick beizuwohnen: Der Übergabe eines über 250 000 Euro teuren neuen Tanklöschfahrtzeuges an die [...]
TFI stand at Essen:This year in hall 8.1
21. 3. – 25. 3. 2012: As usual TFI are present at Essen’s show. However this time in Hall 8.1 instead of the usual Hall 7.1.
http://www.siha.de/tce_uk.php?m=1&ms=1
http://www.tatraclub.at/
Video: A trip to the Lane Motor Museum
Generally, I like to feature old photos and stories for Flashback Friday. Today I’ve got something different: a video.
About a month ago, I drove a Scion iQ down to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn., to experience some of the world’s most unique vehicles (and see if the Scion iQ really is a unique, [...]
T 87 at Veloce
Journalist Gordon Wilkins said that ‘although it has an impressive performance, it produces in the driver the uneasy exhilaration which may be got from shampooing a lion.’ Consumer advocate Ralph Nader called it the only car that was more dangerous than the much — oft unjustly — maligned Corvair. The German Army was said to [...]
Tatra article at Veloce today!
By Pete Vack with help from Karl LudvigsenWhy a Tatra in VeloceToday, you might ask. Probably because it is a carmaker lost in the mountains of Moravia, lost almost to history, lost to VW, lost to the ravages of the 20th century and revolution, lost to the incessant demands of a system that requires both [...]
Tatra shareholder in debt repayment problems
Moodys has down graded KCB therefore CSOB due to debt repayment problems..
http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/business/markets-finance/czech-csob-owner-debt-rating-downgrade
(Malcolm Douglas)
Ales Loprais’ health
Loprais gave an interview about his health on CZ TV:
English:Â http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct4/exkluzivne-na-ct4/163927-nehoda-vztahy-v-tymu-neovlivnila-tvrdi-loprais-mesic-po-dakaru/
Czech: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct4/exkluzivne-na-ct4/163927-nehoda-vztahy-v-tymu-neovlivnila-tvrdi-loprais-mesic-po-dakaru/
Schotten winterrally
German long-time Tatra enthusiast Rolf Ackermann drove his T 57 Sport in last week’s German Schotten winterrally.
http://www.motor-klassik.de/termin/sport-42-asc-winterrallye-rund-um-schotten-4078352.html
Zikmund’s 93th birthday
Famous T 87 traveller Miroslav  Zikmun wasd surprised at his 93th birthday when restoration firm Ecorra visited him at his kome with Jiri Pechan’s T 87.  Zikmund was awarded with a Tatra model, calendars and other Tatra stuff. (Martin Prokop/Eva Plutova)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.350988298267738.89879.138103669556203&type=1