A club for Tatra owners and those with an interest in the marque
COTSWOLDS TOUR 2009!
...see our updated Events Calendar for news of our 8th Annual Rally - 31 July - 2 August
2008 NEC Classic Motor Show Success
Show images copyright D Richards 2008
Our first official club presence at the NEC show for thirteen years involved a huge effort and, for a small club like ours, considerable expense, but what a result! ...the award for 'Best medium-size Club stand' when we currently have less than 80 paid-up members around the world!
For anyone who's not been involved in a project like this, there's a surprising amount of work behind a display of six vehicles in a relatively simple setting. Dave Richards concentrated on assembling the best, and most varied selection available, involving the shipping of two exhibits from the Czech Republic, one of which was en route to the US.
Many thanks to Dave, along with Vita Hinner and his Ecorra team from CZ, Jeff Lane in Nashville for enabling the inclusion of his V855 re-creation, the providers of all our other exhibits, and the impressive number of our members who attended as active 'staff'.
...and if you were one of our visitors, a big thanks to you for coming to see us, and for your interest in our vehicles and their history! We're not just an owners' club. Annual membership costs little more than a day pass to the Classic Motor Show, and all our members were able to join us FOC - you'd be very welcome as a member!
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'T3-603' Sill Mouldings now available - Price Kc3600 (c. £90.00)
The late T603 is the most accessible, numerous and widely campaigned Tatra, so a new initiative like this is to be celebrated and supported. Long-time member, and now Mládá Boleslav resident, John Shelley is developing a range of rolled trim mouldings for collectors' cars - the sharp-eyed may have noticed the perfect aluminium gutter trim on a well-presented blue Škoda MB1000 at Crich in 2007. Most 603s' sill trims are either damaged or missing, so here's a timely opportunity to put things right. These items are in stainless steel.
Says John: "We borrowed or were given patterns from three different 603-3s and every piece had a slightly different profile or section to the ribs, including on the same side of the same car! Most evident is where they meet under the B-post at the line between front and rear doors, where some were not even the same overall height/depth (and the join isn't covered with any similar-profile clip), something we have attempted to eradicate, being as we're so clever! Here they are - as you will be aware, the odd end shapes are where they have to be folded round the wheelarch lip through 90 and then up to 180 degrees during fitting."
" Another point - it appears each moulding was drilled onto and through its sill individually and without a pattern, thus it isn't possible to pre-drill or punch the trims to suit a car which is already drilled for trims being replaced."
See the Skofast website and/or contact John at: skofast@yahoo.co.uk
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We're a car club, but many of our members are as interested in the rich culture and often traumatic history of the former Czechoslovakia as they are in its engineering. Anyone sharing that interest should have member Ivan Margolius’s latest book.
Wiley,
ISBN 0-470-02219-1, 320 pages, 58 illustrations £16.99
available from bookshops and, at a substantial discount, from amazon.co.uk
“A poignant and vivid mémoire of a child searching for traces of his father, lost in the murky ideologies of post war Central Europe. An engrossing book.” Sir John Tusa
"A remarkable book. This archetypical story of the twentieth century is intertwined with an almost stream-of-consciousness narrative of the history of the Czechs, of Prague, interspersed with samples of exquisite poetry by great contemporary poets. So the narrative flows like Eliot’s sweet Thames full of the debris of tragic lives, of horrors, of moments of beauty and testimonies of love – all against the backdrop of man’s inhumanity." Josef Škvorecký
Go to www.margolius.co.uk
for more details of this and other work by Ivan and his family
6-page March 2006 Cover Feature & 2 Posters!
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