by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 03/06/2017 at 14:31
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 03/06/2017 at 14:31
Tags: Tatra
; 603
STARS: 5
Time for today’s Peugeot! They made a 603 didn’t they? Sadly
non.
Time for something a little further from the beaten track then. A Bristol is possible, but let’s go a little further East.
Meet a Tatra 603. Three lights (the middle one steered) or four, your choice, bearing in mind that Tatras were only intended for the ruling classes in the socialist worker’s paradises of Czechoslovakia and places nearby and most of the earlier ones were taken back and rebuilt as the newer ones to be reissued.
You can very quickly get far too much of tilt-shift photography.
Either way you got a 2.5 V8 sitting in the back.
It looks like this, restored to within an inch of its life. Note what seems to be a hole for the emergency insertion of a starting handle.
Less restored, more like this.
The 603 was in production for about twenty years, as was its successor.
Oh, and just because it wasn’t a French car doesn’t mean that Thierry Dubois didn’t get his crayons out for it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/06/2017 at 14:50, STARS: 0
Thierry in top form, I see. There is another auto thing numbered 603, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily that well regarded.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/06/2017 at 15:02, STARS: 1
Another 603 thing too.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
03/06/2017 at 15:22, STARS: 0
It’s mainly the very early ones and the 3.5 liter ones that aren’t well regarded. The early 3.0s cracked and warped heads (both because of design flaws and because of a horrifically hot DPF that some of them had right up against the head), the 3.5s are well known for bending rods (although the very last 3.5s seem to be fine in that regard).
A late 3.0, or an early 3.0 with the head off of a 3.5, though?
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/06/2017 at 15:29, STARS: 0
I have an early 3.0 that was caught before particulate filter-induced failure and is now around 400,000miles. It’s absolutely a good engine, just probably not in anyone’s hall of fame or considered a particular benchmark - is what I meant.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/06/2017 at 17:26, STARS: 0
Fewer problems for those of us without DPFs of course.
"Clemsie McKenzie" (thestirringcolumn)
03/06/2017 at 18:51, STARS: 1
Tatras are just the coolest. Between this and the T87...
"JRapp: now as good as new again" (jrapp)
03/06/2017 at 20:15, STARS: 0
On the topic of Tatras, they used to (still do?) make trucks as well. What used to (and may still?) set them apart from the rest and make them easily identifiable from the rear, was the high positive camber of the rear axles when unladen, caused by Tatras use of swing axle type rear axles.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/07/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 0
Still in production, some still have Tatra V8s and swing axles.
Available, depending on model, from 6x6 up to “more” which can go to 12x12.
Configure yours
here
.
"JRapp: now as good as new again" (jrapp)
03/07/2017 at 12:58, STARS: 0
Nice! I may have found my Zombie Apocalypse survival vehicle.
