After looking through an old 1959 Launceston Examiner Newspaper, i noticed something.
It read.

VW COPIED

Volksfiatovitch is the irreveret name bestowed in Western Europe on the new russian, rear engined car.Though the car owes quite a lot to the Fiat 600, it's engine is almost a scaled down replica to the Volkswagen's. It is an air cooled flat four, with pushrod operated, verticle overhead valves, and it has the same compression ratio as the Vw. However, total capacity is only 750cc. (Against about 1197cc.) And the output is about 20mph compared with 36mph with the Volkswagen.




Does anyone have any pics of this rare beast???

Cheers 1963 Empi Radar.

Weird huh???

the paper wasn't dated the 1st of april by any chance. aussie gee-up maybe?

Trying to find info on that car I came across this an air cooled V8!!!!

...a summary by Gareth Jones

The T603 project was begun in 1953, after the Czechoslovakian government issued the order for Tatra to design and build a car suitable for official duties, to replace the Volgas and ZILs that were used after production T87 ceased the previous year. The car would have six seats and an engine capacity of not more than 3.6 litres.

The heart of the new car was the newly developed 603 engine by Jiri Klos. A 2,545cc air-cooled V8, its specification was advanced; oversquare (75 x 72mm), with a single centre camshaft and hemispherical combustion chambers. The engine's first application was in the 4x4 T805, and in its 'military spec' it developed 75 bhp, but it had also been used in some interesting Tatra competition cars, like the T601 Tatraplan Montecarlo and the T602 and T607 sports racing cars. In the new T603 saloon, however, it produced 95 bhp at 5000 rpm.

will try to get a pic

Matt.

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http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f200/myran13/Early20T120engine2.jpg 

maybe this is better?

1963 Empi Radar,

Here are some more pics, I think these are more like the ones talked about in that news paper article.They are called Tatra and were made in Czechoslovakia Apparrently they first surfaced in the 1930's and Adolph didn't like how similar they were to the KDF wagen, so he made them stop production. They resurfaced after the war and there have been many models since.

Start with this site:
http://tatraklub.tatraportal.sk/ 
or
http://www.tatra-register.co.uk/ 






PS. HANDS UP WHO WANTS ONE!!!!!!!

[ Edited on 21-1-2006 by Matt Ryan ]

By the way. I wouldn't mind hooling up the beach in that Tatra!!!!
I WANT ONE!!!!!

maybe flash gordon knows about them

in that second picture..is there no-one sitting in the front at the drivers seat but there is someone sitting in the back...reading a newspaper?

what a weirdo.


Anthony

I bet the driver got out to take the pic!

A split window Beetle and early Type 1 Karman Ghia sit with T87 and T600:

guy harding up here in Brisbane had a Tatra (might still have it), apparently you need to sleep with a lot of people to get one out

With the triple lights & boat tail rear, I think it has more in common with the American Tucker.

Tucker

Whilst looking for VW information I got the drag co-efficient of the 1934 Tatra T77 - wait for it - 0.212 !

And that was with a three-flat-piece windscreen.


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Anything else on this car???

I still have the Tatra (Tatraplan T600) - its a nice rust free 1951' version with a truckload of parts - Aussie delivered RHD.

Someone please buy it off me & restore it - its a really cool ride




[ Edited on 13-2-2006 by Guy_H ]

:P

what are you asking for it?

Quote:

Originally posted by Guy_H I still have the Tatra (Tatraplan T600) - its a nice rust free 1951' version with a truckload of parts - Aussie delivered RHD. Someone please buy it off me & restore it - its a really cool ride [ Edited on 13-2-2006 by Guy_H ]