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East European Vehicle Day

April 1st, 2012
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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.  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

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Video: New Tatra fire fighter vehicle for Perleberg

March 20th, 2012
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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 [...]

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TFI stand at Essen:This year in hall 8.1

March 20th, 2012
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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/

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Video: A trip to the Lane Motor Museum

March 3rd, 2012
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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, [...]

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T 87 at Veloce

February 29th, 2012
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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 [...]

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Tatra article at Veloce today!

February 23rd, 2012
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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 [...]

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Tatra shareholder in debt repayment problems

February 23rd, 2012
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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)

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Ales Loprais’ health

February 18th, 2012
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Loprais gave an interview about his health on CZ TV:
English: 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/

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Schotten winterrally

February 17th, 2012
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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

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Zikmund’s 93th birthday

February 15th, 2012
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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

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