If you want a 1:32 scale slot car to race on your Scalextric or Carrera track, you have lots of choice.  There are sports cars, racing cars, saloon cars and rally cars available from the modern day and yesteryear.  Now added to the list is a 1960 Tatra 603.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/Slot%20cars%202/IMAG0876_1_zpscqtuhstw.jpg

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With the resin bodyshell kit including vacform windows, interior and rally decals, you can build your own Tatra and put it onto an existing slot car chassis.  Or if you would like to go to the next level of realism you can fit one of the chase-cars chassis which allows the front wheels to steer and the whole car to lean through the corners.

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The chassis was developed to add some authenticity to 1970s American saloon cars, but works equally well on classic rally cars.  If you don’t think a classic saloon should corner like an F1 racing car, a chase-cars chassis could be just the thing.  To explain what goes into the chassis, there’s a YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ff2NzKj6U

And for a quick look at how it works with the Tatra, look at these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPgHMhch44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WDdImNOw5w

And if you want a running mate for your Tatra, coming soon from chase-cars…. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/603_1000MB_top2_zpsc9884943.jpg

Keep up with developments at www.chase-cars.com or www.facebook.com/chase.cars

Info sent by Gareth Jones

http://www.amazon.de/OSTBLOQUE-Skat-Das-Skatblatt-RGW-Oldtimern/dp/B00ATQSSOK

(photo shows the Matrix T 87 prototype model)

The Dutch car model manufacturer Matrix will issue a series of six 1: 42 model from the collection of the LouwmanMuseum.

They are:

Tatra T87, 1938
Duesenberg SJ Le Grande, 1935
Fiat 8V Vignale Demonrouge, 1953
Lagonda V12 Le Mans Lancefield, 1939
Bugatti Type 57 Roadster “Grand Raid” Gangloff, 1934
Daimler DK400 Golden Zebra, 1955

All cars are part of the collection of the Louwman Museum and exhibited at a 1:1 scale

http://scorpion-cars.blogspot.nl/2014/01/louwman-museum-part-3-1941-tatra-87.html

http://modelautokrant.nl/?p=12130

http://www.matrixscalemodels.com/products.aspx?products=LOUWMAN_MUSEUM_series

http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/louwman-collect.php

The Louwman Museum will be visited during this year’s TFI annual Tatra meeting

http://www.tatraworld.nl/2014/01/23/6483/

I was in Munich for DLD, a conference, and I had a morning to kill.  So I joined a group tour of modern art museum Pinakothek der Moderne’s design wing.  There was all kinds of impressive stuff — but I immediately gravitated to a crazy-looking, beautiful car.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-tatra-87-2014-2#here-it-is-just-look-at-it-1

Search these links for your T 603 or T 815

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29987108@N02/8661395763/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29987108@N02/with/8662493690/

http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/lego,tatra/Interesting

http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/artists/273055918?view_mode=2

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Tatra-T77-Bonneville-Prototype-337270463

http://grabcad.com/library/tatra-t57-engine

The Duch future government wants to re-introduce road-tax for veteran cars.

The Dutch classic car scene is now upset.

Sign the petition!

http://www.telegraaf.nl/autovisie/13136204/__Ook_voor_oldtimers_moet_wegenbelasting_worden_betaald__.html

Not perfect, but it is coming close. But the sills, sliding roof, headlamps, rear number plate holder all don’t seem to have the right dimensions.

http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/1947-tatra-t87-3d-model/691824