All kind of Tatras gathered at Wemding, Bavaria, for the annual TRD event. Spotted were a T57, T57sport, T57a, T57a Sport, T57b, T75, T87-2, T87-3, T602-2, T603-3, T613s and a T700, quite a good variety. For a photoreport, have a look at Davydutchy’s Flickr photostream website
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/
The Tatra Veteran Club Koprivnice invites you at their annual rally in the first weekend of September.
The TVCC rally is the mother of all Tatra rallies and is organised for the 41st time! Quite an achievement. Many Czechs and Slovaks usually present their freshly restored Tatras to the broad Tatra public for the first time and it is about the only Tatra rally that is attended by veteran Tatra trucks as well.
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Customizing cars has become quite popular in both Czech Republic and Slovakia. Marek Adamčík sent TatraWorld these photos of this photo from the Trencin Tuning & Speed Show. More pix at http://www.autofun.cz/tuning-speed-show-trencin-5101/
Despite our efforts to put together an interesting program and to present many Danish attractions, we have not succeeded in getting enough applications for our NOTAM meeting in Denmark on 26-29 August 2010.
With great regret we must therefore cancel the meeting.
Yours sincerely, Tatra Tatra Team Denmark. svca@post3.tele.dk
A 1933 Röhr Junior, a German 1.5 litre saloon built under license from Tatra, showed up at a Dutch classic car meeting. According to its owner, it’s just one of five-six Röhr Juniors still in existence. The very car is believed to be in Holland for at least more than three decades, but returned to the road under new ownership.
Some history: Through Tatra’s German subsidiary, Detra of Frankfurt, a license agreement was agreed between Tatra and the Neuen Röhr-Werke Ltd. Röhr introduced their “Junior” with a modified and sized down engine of the Tatra T 75 at the Berlin Motor Show that very year. The Tatra based Röhr became a success, becoming Röhr best sold model ever. The model couldn’t save Röhr however. After the bankruptcy of the Neue Röhr-Werke AG, in 1935 Stoewer bought the production machinery together with the Tatra licence and continued output.
Here are the promised photos of the 2010 TFI rally held in Trescore, Lombardia, Italy. Watch and enjoy!
Photos by KS and Barbara Froelich.
Sorry Folks, due to technical problems the posted Trescore photos are temporarily unavailable. KS
(www.tatraclub.at has published more members exclusive photos at http://www.tatraclub.at/)
The TFI has published a nice report on its recent Trescore meeting. It gives a good impression of the “happy together” atmosphere.
Read and have a look at the several photos!
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The internatinal Tatra community visited the River Po valley this year. On Tatra Freunde International’s traditional Ascension weekend, the TFI Italian section did their utmost to organize a high quality meeting in Trescore Balneario. The organizers headed by Mario Mezzera, Elsa Spinelli and fellow family members could welcome a wide variety of Tatras at its XXXIIIth rally. Oldest cars present were Johann Fanderl’s T 57 saloon and two T 57 sport. An Austrian T 57a saloon, a T 57L light platform truck as well as a superb Swiss T 57b saloon completed the T 57 range. A trio of T 75 convertibles, a Swiss one, a Czech one and a German Sodomka T 75 convertible, all had travelled to Northern Italy. Libor Suchy, son of the well known Bohumil Suchy, proudly presented his freshly restored two-tone blue early T75 saloon.
Tailfinned streamliners were well presented with TW’s Kees Smit and his T77a, three protruded headlamp T87s and a proud Ales Minarik with a nice recently restored T 87 Diplomat. Not less than five Tatraplans, all Koprivnice built, from Switzerland, Austria and Czech Republic completed the tailfin series.
Model most well presented was the T 603 range with a Berlin T 603-1 and several T3-603s from Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Italy and Austria. Modern times were reflected by two T 613-1s and Nando Perovano’s immaculate T 613-3.
On Ascension Day, slowly all fourty Tatras arrived and crowded the parking space of the Trescore Balneario Spa hotel, with all competitors being invited to pay a visit to the nearby frescos of Lorenzo Lotto. www.prolocotrescore.it
On friday morning early the Tatra caravan set off for the magnificent ”Citta Alta” of Bergamo where a professional tourist guide helped us to understand all ins and outs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo After a hot meal in Almenno San Salvatore and a tour through the lovely wineyards of Scanzo, all Tatras toured through Trescore Balneario and were finally presented on its historical market square, the Piazza della Torre, but not after a professial jury judged all the Tatras in a small Concours d’elegance. All Tatra crews had diner in a nearby restaurant.
On saturday the tour was quieter with a visit to the historical village of Clusone where the Tatra crews got a sightseeing tour and the Tatras were parked on yet again a historical valuable spot, at the piazza dell‘orologio, right under its famous multi-functional clock. http://www.casa-parre.com/clusone.htm The trip back to Trescore Balneario guided the Tatras along the Iseo and Indine lakes, all Tatras getting a taste of the Mille Miglia track when mastering the narrow cut out road on the steep bank of Lake Iseo.
The meeting was concluded with the traditional dinner and prizegiving, Czech Libor Suchy and his T75 winning the top awards.
The meeting was well published with a coverage on tv and local papers paying attention. Also, motoring journalists and photographers of several Italian magazins were seen interviewing owners and taking hundreds of photos. The public reacted enthusiastically on the Czech invasion. All Tatras, fairly unknown in Italy, became real head-turners for the car-minded Italians.
More photos to appear here soon
This weekend, at International Museum Day, several Tatras of the Tatra Freunde Sachsen showed up in Dresden to conclude the Hans Ledwinka exhibition at the Verkehrsmuseum Dresden, where Ledwinka’s granddaughter Hannie Mader was alo present to inform interested visitors.
We reported in an earlier post about the TFI clubstand in Essen, rewarded with a 3rd overall prize.
See: http://www.tatraworld.nl/2010/04/10/strong-performance-by-tfi-in-essen/
Now enjoy a series of photos abou the creation and happy ending of the TFI stand!
