"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
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Tatra 613-5
Leon711
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11/27/2015 at 08:18 |
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British plates!
Nymphicus Hollandicus
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11/27/2015 at 08:25 |
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I need to import one of these beauties.
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> Leon711
11/27/2015 at 08:26 |
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RHD too, hence 613-5
twochevrons
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11/27/2015 at 08:39 |
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HOLY MOTHER OF WANT.
A Tatra 603 or 613 is on my automotive bucket list. They’re just so delightfully weird, and Eastern Bloc engineering fascinates me.
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> twochevrons
11/27/2015 at 08:43 |
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on my bucket list too.
davedave1111
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11/27/2015 at 09:06 |
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I love those, and I’m an even bigger fan of the T700:
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
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11/27/2015 at 09:12 |
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Utterly love these cars. Really want one.
I also had a bit of a nutso idea to get a GAZ Volga 24 and swap in the all-alloy 7.7l 311bhp/448lb-ft Russian big-block V8 from a ZIL limo :)
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Leon711
11/27/2015 at 09:14 |
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Apparently there was a chap who officially imported them back in the day. There's a review here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trigger…
Cé hé sin
> Leon711
11/27/2015 at 09:28 |
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RHD wipers too, unlike some I could name that were made in much bigger numbers.
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Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
11/27/2015 at 09:31 |
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I was amazed to see one once in the wild, years ago.
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Cé hé sin
> davedave1111
11/27/2015 at 09:38 |
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...but not with that front end. It all starts so well if you begin from the back but once you get beyond the windscreen it all goes horribly wrong.
Svend
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11/27/2015 at 10:59 |
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Having never seen one of these before I looked at the front and though ‘well that engine’s going to overheat pretty fast with no air vents in the front’, then found it doesn’t need air vents in the front as that’s not where the engine is. Doh!
Tatra history, TopGear 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfqZ2XBOVnk
I must admit, I’m rather taken with it.
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davedave1111
> Cé hé sin
11/27/2015 at 11:04 |
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I like it. It’s no 603, but it fits the era, and the slight geekiness of Tatras.
Now I think about it, it reminds me a little of the Avanti.
And because my brain goes odd places, I just checked on google and was very disappointed to find that it seems no-one’s built a Studillac Avanti.
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Cé hé sin
> Svend
11/27/2015 at 11:58 |
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Just out of curiosity, I checked out L490 LRP. MoT expired in 2011 so it seems to be no longer with us.
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Svend
> Cé hé sin
11/27/2015 at 12:50 |
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I should think it’ll be SORN somewhere.
As it only had 215 miles on the clock but to the time the pictures were taken. The article above says:
“Tatra T613-5 New 1993 One of the Rarest Cars in the World.
Czech Hand Built Motor Car built to Rival BMW, Jaguar and Mercedes Basically the Czech Aston Martin or Bristol.
Tatra are the third oldest motor car manufacturer in the world, but ceased car manufacturing in Year 2000 to concentrate on their Trucks which they are world famous for.
They pioneered streamlined cars in the 1930s, with the world renowned Tatraplan, and developed the VW Beetle Design in the late 1930s.
This car has covered a total of 215 miles from new. There were 5 built in RHD with Fuel Injection and 3 survive in the world.
This is the only “New” one in the world
It is still a New Car and so still needs running in!
This Car L490 is one of the rarest modern cars in the world.
The car is Number 2 and was the Prague Motor Show Car known then as the Klassik, I have the Motor Show Plates used at the Motor Show with the name Klassik on
Rear Mounted Fuel Injected Air Cooled 3500cc V8 Engine with Dog Leg 5 Speed Gearbox, with the engines main weight forward of the rear axle, making the car actually a mid engine configuration.
Passed its first MOT test in July this year.
The car being a prototype has its quirky ways, but it’s unique and a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy the last and only brand new Tatra 613-5.
Fantastic backup and spares available through the Tatra Owners Club, who are most helpful.
This is a very rare car, you may never see another one, and it has only ever done 215 miles.”
So I should think it’s garaged up somewhere.
Actually the link above is worth a look around. Some great cars and great examples of modern classic cars we grew up with.
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> Cé hé sin
11/27/2015 at 18:42 |
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:(
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> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
11/27/2015 at 18:44 |
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do it!
for science obviously.