More photos by Jaroslav Sopuch: beskydy_2018_sopuch

Just one week after the 120 years Tatra rally, the TRD held its annual event, at the last weekend of June, in the valley of River Nahe.  About thirty cars were present, some of them just returning from the Czech Rally. Of of the fellow competitors, Raimund Bartl arrived at the hotel just after midnight where he had a drink with other Tatra owners. He, however, had sudden pain on the breast and was reanimated, first by Tatra colleagues with a medical education, then by ambulance personnel and finally by a practitioner. It was to no avail though as he passed away under the hands of his reanimators.

It does not take much imagination that everybody was shocked the next day. Out of respect, the rally organisation provided all competitors with a mourning ribbon and a rose.

The rally itself was nicely organised and the route was splendid.

Silent witness.

Raimund Bartl’s ivory T 603 was left behind, only the flowers witnessing that something had happened.

Raimund Bartl will be buried on July 14th 9.30 at Friedhof Letter(Hölderlinstrasse 6, 30926 Seelze)

TRN Spring Rally:April 2017: TBA

The Dutch club hasn’t announced their spring event yet as it is looking for an organiser. Watch their website for news: http://www.tatraregister.nl/?page=tatraregister-agenda

KdTF Rally 4-7 May 2017 Wernigerode/ Germany

http://www.tatrafreunde-ev.de/termine-aktuelles/ Please register before February 28th

TFI Rally 25-28 May http://www.tatraclub.at/en/ will take place in the north of Lower Austria – from the Hotel in Ottenstein the rally will visit the Waldviertel and parts of the Weinviertel. Please register with ernst@bieber.co.at by 15 March latest.

TVCC Koprivnice Rally:21 – 24 June: 120 Years Tatra Rally  Vienna-Bratislava- Brno- Koprivnice      http://tvcckoprivnice.com/

The Vienna-Koprivnice veteran Car Rally has been held every ten years and attracts many Tatra classic cars from all over Europe.

Wednesday, 21.06.2017 Vienna, arrival, overnight stay

Thursday, 22.06.2017 Vienna – Bratislava Overnight stay

Friday, 23.06.2017 Bratislava – Brno Overnight stay

Saturday, 24.06.2017 Brno – Kopřivnice Overnight stay

Sunday, 25.06.2017 Kopřivnice Vehicle parade, home trip

Please print the application form from http://tvcckoprivnice.com/ and send it by e-mail to lucie.zakova@tatramuseum.cz or mail to (Please mention the word rally on the envelope) to Lucie Zakova, Technical Museum Tatra, Záhumenni 367/1, CZ-742 22 Kopřivnice, Czech Republic

TRD Rally 29 June – 2 July – this year’s rally is in the Schlossböckelheim/Nahetal area: Please visit  http://www.tatra-register.de/tatra_register_deutschland.htm for the invitation (Einladung) and Entry (Anmeldung) forms. Please register by 30 April latest

TRUK 2017 Rally 28–30 July – Rally HQ at The Masons Arms, Meysey Hampton, GL7 5JT in the Cotswolds.

Rally HQ will be The Masons Arms, Meysey Hampton, GL7 5JT.

Accommodation will be at the Masons Arms and at equally pleasant B&Bs within walking distance. Prices will be in the region of £80 per night for a double room including breakfast. Other meals, rally fee and entrance fees to visits TBC but will be of a scale commensurate with previous recent rallies.

Early bookings are very welcome. Please do so through the Glovers…Please do so through the Glovers…

trukrally@samgloverlimited.com

01285 720000 / 07587 633515

TRS Rally 17 & 18 September http://www.tatra.ch/ Basel/ Elsass

Hotel: Le petit Kohlberg , Basel, Switzerland. Application form TBA.
Organisation Claude Küng

TRN Annual Rally September 2017: TBA

The Dutch club hasn’t announced their annual event yet as it is looking for an organiser. Watch their website for news: http://www.tatraregister.nl/?page=tatraregister-agenda

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This 2017 Tatra classic car events page is offered to you by the secretary of Tatra World

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29403/this-tatra-race-car-conquered-the-nurburgring-for-84-hours-straight/

The Tatra Register Nederland held their annual meeting in Soesterberg, the Netherlands. Video by Camiel de Leeuw en Romke van Groning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP4o1N4IJ7Q

Organised by some Tatra Freunde International diehards who regretted the fact that the TFI had become neglected, not organising a members’meeting in 2015 and 2016, the Tatra meeting in Mattsee (A) became a highly successful meeting.

The meeting was held in the small city of Mattsee, the place where the TFI was founded. With close to fourty Tatras from seven European countries attending the May 5-8 meeting, several members jumped the wagon and formed a new supervisory board, breathing new life into the club. The rally was contested by two very rare Tatras, both from Czech Republic: a T 77 from Prague and a T 17/31 from Ostrava. Anothrt surprise visit was made by a unrestored T 87 from Germany.

The two-day rally visited the highlight of the Mattsee area, including the city of Salzburg, the KTM works, a locomotive museum and last but not least Ernst Piech’s Fahrtraum Museum, where the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche himself acted as a guide for the visiting Tatra  owners.

TEILNEHMER MATTSEE TATRA-TREFFEN 2016

1 Friehs, Rudolf A T 11 1923

2 Steffen Dirk D T 57 Sport 1931

3 Fanderl, Johann D T 57 1933

4 Spiess, Erich A T 57 sport 1933

5 Suchy, Bohumir CZ T 57 1sport 1933

6 Müller, Jan CZ T 57 sport 1934

7 Hoffmann, Helmuth A T 57 sport 1934

8 Steiner, Walter A T 57a Halbcabrio 1935

9 Frohberg, Thomas D T 57a Halbcabrio 1936

10 Altendorfer, Joachim D T 57a 1936

11 Engl, Hans A Austro-Tatra T 57/L 1937

12 Smit, Kees NL T 57K 1943

12A Toloch, Jiří CZ T 17 1927

14 Pitsch, Oskar A T 30L Taxi 1928

15 Veřmiřovský, Jiří CZ T 54 1931

16 Brablík, Libor CZ T 75 1936

17 Leitner, Helmut A T 75 1938

18 Kasík, Pavel CZ T 77 1936

19 Maralik, Aleš CZ T 87 1947

20 Staffen, Alfred A T 600 1949 4 Vergaser sport

21 Colloredo-Mansfeld, Jerome T 600 1952

22 Litschauer, Josef A T 600 1952

23 Mezzera, Mario I T 603 1961

24 Forker, Peter D T 603 1962

25 Forker, Steffen D T 603 1966

26 Fährmann, Andreas D T 603 1966

27 Holzinger, Bruno A T 603 1969

28 Bieber, Ernst A T 603 1972

29 Baláš, Stanislav CZ T 603 1972

30 Kubizňák, Zdenek CZ T 603 1972

31 Pirovano, Ferdinando I T 603 1973

32 Meier, Ernst CH T 603 1975

33 Beez, Gernot D T 613

34 Carstensen, Svend DK T 613S 1987

35 Kocisko, Rudolf DK T 613 1992

37   Pierre Steichen L T 613

38 Berger, René D Corvair Corsa 1965

39 Pelikan, Klaus D Citroen DS

40 Ivo Prochaska CZ T 613-5

Trebing, Max D ohne

Heinlein, Günther D ohne

Henkel, Roland D ohne

Salzburg city centre:

http://www.salzburg-hotel.at/en/city-of-salzburg/salzburgs-sights/

Salzburg lake district:

http://www.salzburgerland.com/en/salzburger-seenland/index.html

KTM works:

http://www.ktm.com/gb/

Video: Lokpark Ampflwang Dampflokmuseum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5US_gS0HGjQ

Fahrtraum Museum Mattsee:

http://fahrtraum.at/

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/auto/museum-von-ernst-pich-im-namen-des-patriarchen-1.1747740

Early May a Tatra meeting will be organised in Mattsee, Austria.  It is held on the well-known traditional Ascension weekend, always claimed and used by the Tatra Freunde International.  As the TFI has experienced problems with finding successors in their supervisory board, the (the oldest western-European Tatra Club)  club made a neglected impression the last years with no annual meeting held in 2015 and no meeting planned in 2016.  To give its members a chance to meet again, some members have taken the initiative to meet again and a meeting was planned in Mattsee, Austria, the place where the TFI was founded in 1975 by Dr. Friedrich Duering http://www.tatraclub.at/ The supervisory board of the TFI has requested the organisation of the meeting to allow a TFI general members to be held to decide whether the TFI should be discontinued or reactivated with a new supervisory board. All initiatives are welcomed.

The 2016 Mattsee meeting has attracted a wide range of Tatras from a T 11 to T 613s.  Thirty-five Tatras from not less than seven countries will head for Austria early May. Unique cars like a T 77, a T 17/31 and an Austr0-Tatra will be present.

The TFI has been a very active club in the past, with its last meeting held in 2014 in the Netherlands. Previous meetings were held in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. Als, the TFI participated in the 1987, 1997 and 2007 Vienna-Koprivnice meeting, to celebrate the anniversary of the Tatra factory.

Fotoreport TFI 2014  meeting Noordwijkerhout, NL: http://www.paul-wouters.nl/tatra.htm

Mattsee 2016 Meeting:http://www.tatraworld.nl/mattseea-treffenmeeting-may-2016/

TFI Website: http://www.tatraclub.at/

Photos of past TFI meetings: http://www.tatraclub.at/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=categories&Itemid=42

In the past years, dealers and Autostadt showed T 87s. Not this year however. Only Tatras present were a T 613-1 at the Tatra Register Deutschland club stand and a T 613 offered at the Coys auction. Auction results are unknown, however. The traditional Tatra club stand, run by the TFI till 2014 and since then by the TRD, welcomed several Tatra enthusiasts who are always welcome for a drink and a chat.

Though advertised as a car with only 23,445 kilometers on the clock, the meter read 223,445 km!   http://autoweek.com/article/auctions/7-cars-watch-coys-techno-classica-auction

But there was more to see of course:  Another three-headlamp car: Streamlined 1960 Pininfarina X prototype.  More pix: http://www.classic-car.tv/news/article0531/

In the same village where the Tatra Club de Freunde was founded, Mattsee, a Tatra meeting will be organized to honour the founder of the Club der Tatra Freunde (Later TFI), a club that organized meetings for its members between 1976 and 2014,

Want to come? click here for the invitation, program and application form.

The forms can also be downloaded by clicking on the “Mattsee (A) Treffen/ Meeting May 2016″ page on the right side bar.

Hello all!

I just want to inform you that a Swedish Tatra Register has been started. So far we are 17 members, covering T87, T600, T603, T613 and T813.

The particulars are as follows:

Svenska Tatra-registret
c/o Jacob Munkhammar, Storgatan 1, 24172 Marieholm
tatraregistret@gmail.com

We don’t have website yet.
Cheers,
/Jacob Munkhammar

Some Swedish atricles on Tatra:

http://www.motor-life.com/motor-life/automobilhistoria-idag/tatra-t-600-tatraplan-saldes-i-nagra-fa-ar-aven-i-sverige