TW spotted the first Tatra Phoenix with a crew cabin, ideal for firefighters
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Phoenix crew cabin
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SF landscape for a T 1-603
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Moving Dutch trees with a German T 815
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T 97
A new coat for Ian Tisdale’s T 97. Hope to see the car and its entusiastic owners on 2013 Tatra meetings!
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Peculiar Front engined Tatras
Sometis for publicity reasons, but mostly because to find a cheap solution when spare parts were not available, all these rear-engined Tatras from Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Ukrain and Northern Korea, got a front engine.
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Northern Korean T 613s
Northern Korea bought 500 T 613-3s in the years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Though tatra delivered a few in 1990 and over 200 a year later, the order was cancelled mid way leaving the Koprivnce works with hundreds of T 613s already built with hardly a European market for it. Photos of the Korean T 613s are extremely rare, but last October a tourist photographed a few.
To view T 613s, scroll down to a message of 03 11 2012
http://forum.imcdb.org/util.ks?page=forum_print&id=7135&index=1
Nineties Northern Korean music video with T 613s in Supporting role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6u_a0EUkA0
Famous North Korean Pop-song. The video tells a story about a young woman who has done a great job, a journalist follows her and wants her name in the newspaper.
Korean title: 내이름 묻지 마세요 (Nae Ireum Mutji Maseyo)
Singer: Ri Gyeong Suk (리경숙)
Performed by Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble (보천보전자악단)
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First Presov ambulance?
Prvé sanitky v Prešove ?
Keď som mal asi 17 rokov, našiel som kdesi staršie fotografie sanitiek s nápisom Prešov na dverách. Fotografie som odložil a po čase na ne zabudol. Pripomenula mi ich výstava v SNG minulý rok- Nové Slovensko 1918- 1949, zrod moderného životného štýlu.
Zdalo sa mi, že na výstavu by sa tie fotografie hodili a dosť ma mrzelo, že ich neviem nájsť. Napokon, ako to už býva, našiel som ich náhodne pri hľadaní niečoho iného. Prvý krát som si uvedomil, že dve s tých fotografií sú na zadnej strene popísané ceruzkou. Na jednej je nápis auto ČSČK a na druhej Šproch- prvý riaditeľ. Začal som sa o to zaujímať a chcel som zistiť niečo viac, bohužiaľ, nepodarilo sa mi zistiť skoro nič. V prvom rade, o aké obdobie ide. Jedná sa ešte o prvú Československú republiku pred jej rozdelením 14.marca 1939 a preto ten nápis auto ČSČK, ak menšie z áut je podľa mňa Škoda Popular 1100 OHV, model 1939. Alebo sú to uniformy zo Slovenského štátu a nápisy na fotografiách vznikli po oslobodení. Väčšie auto je zrejme Tatra 57 A, alebo L (volant vpravo), v úprave akú som nikde nenašiel.
Skúšal som hľadať najprv v Múzeu Červeného kríža v Martine, odtiaľ mi ale prišla odpoveď, že múzeum už tri roky neexistuje, nech to skúsim na vedení SČK v Bratislave. Tí ma poslali do Národného archívu a tam mi zase odporučili Štátny archív v Prešove. Tam majú menšie množstvo dokumentov z činnosti Červeného kríža v období 1945 až 1959 v Prešove, to by som ale musel vycestovať. Tak či tak, zdajú sa mi fotografie dostatočne zaujímavé a hádam zaujmú aj iných, hlavne v Prešove.
More: http://dusankoniar.blog.sme.sk/c/296810/Prve-sanitky-v-Presove.html
Čítajte viac: http://dusankoniar.blog.sme.sk/c/296810/Prve-sanitky-v-Presove.html#ixzz2GfBACLxX
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Travellers’surprise: Saigon Tatra
Week One Saigon
Away I flew; up the coast of BC, over Anchorage (just like last year), and then across the Bering Strait and down across Russian, Korea, past Japan and finally, finally landing at Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3, the second largest air terminal in the world (Dubai has the largest) and third largest (area covered) building in the world.
Although I was flying to Ho Chi Minh City I had to leave Terminal 3 and go to the domestic terminal as my next flight landed first in Nanning. I had to get my passport stamped for my brief China stay, clear a couple of security gates (where they dumped the water I had purchased at the Victoria Airport) and take a short train ride to the other terminal. Once there I discovered there was no place to change currency. Unless I used an ATM, or credit card, I was without funds. Luckily I wasn’t starving and I filled my water bottle at a water station. Not the best tasting water but it’d do. After a 4 hour wait I boarded a bus to the plane waiting out on the tarmac. A plane with next to no legroom for a tall person. I did manage to nod off a bit but in a couple of hours we landed in Nanning. Off the plane, through yet another security gate, where my passport was again stamped and then back onto the plane after a short wait. On the last leg I managed to get a whole section of seats for myself when I offered my seat to a young woman so she could sit by her mother. No sleep though. At about 2am, local time, we landed in Ho Chi Minh City. I rocketed off the plane, got my bag, cleared Customs and was almost first person out of the terminal to the taxi stand. I caught one of our a cab for a quick ride through almost deserted streets (sucking in the tropical air through the taxi window) to my hotel where I had a shower and hit the hay by 3:30. No long sleep for me though: I was up at 7:30, in time for breakfast.
Nice to hear something new about a Vietnamese Tatra weput on TW back in 2008 http://www.tatraworld.nl/2008/12/31/south-east-asias-sole-t87-during-a-rare-outing/
Away I flew; up the coast of BC, over Anchorage (just like last year), and then across the Bering Strait and down across Russian, Korea, past Japan and finally, finally landing at Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3, 
the second largest air terminal in the world (Dubai has the largest) and third largest (area covered) building in the world.
the second largest air terminal in the world (Dubai has the largest) and third largest (area covered) building in the world.Although I was flying to Ho Chi Minh City I had to leave Terminal 3 and go to the domestic terminal as my next flight landed first in Nanning. I had to get my passport stamped for my brief China stay, clear a couple of security gates (where they dumped the water I had purchased at the Victoria Airport) and take a short train ride to the other terminal. Once there I discovered there was no place to change currency. Unless I used an ATM, or credit card, I was without funds. Luckily I wasn’t starving and I filled my water bottle at a water station. Not the best tasting water but it’d do. After a 4 hour wait I boarded a bus to the plane waiting out on the tarmac. A plane with next to no legroom for a tall person. I did manage to nod off a bit but in a couple of hours we landed in Nanning. Off the plane, through yet another security gate, where my passport was again stamped and then back onto the plane after a short wait. On the last leg I managed to get a whole section of seats for myself when I offered my seat to a young woman so she could sit by her mother. No sleep though. At about 2am, local time, we landed in Ho Chi Minh City. I rocketed off the plane, got my bag, cleared Customs and was almost first person out of the terminal to the taxi stand. I caught one of our a cab for a quick ride through almost deserted streets (sucking in the tropical air through the taxi window) to my hotel where I had a shower and hit the hay by 3:30. No long sleep for me though: I was up at 7:30, in time for breakfast.
Full story: http://kellyeye.wordpress.com/2010/08/page/3/
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T 77 Chicago restoration
http://coopertechnica.com/1934-Tatra-T77.php
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-cars20tatrasub20120519072353,0,6286768.photo
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-cars20clubsub20120519072049,0,1433622.photo
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Front engined T 603
Why such a front?
Where is the engine?
Recently offfered for sale in Slovakia:
A T 1-603 with old Ford front engine!
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