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A club for Tatra owners and those with an interest in the marque
Nearly
half (55) of
our
vehicles now illustrated and described on this site
Problems
with our info and membership email links are now resolved!
Go
to our events page now, for more
fixtures than ever, including TatraTech 2008
- our two-day hands-on
technical summer
seminar for T603 and T613 owners
7th Annual
Rally
25th
to 28th July 2008
“Tatras-on-Tees”
© David Robinson - Reproduced by
kind permission of David Robinson http://daverob.catalyst2.com/
In
a completely new area for TRUK and the furthest north we have yet been
on an annual rally, we will be visiting County Durham (about 12 miles
from A1(M) junction 57), where Tatras are rare beasts indeed and are sure
to turn heads wherever we go. Returning to the popular three night format
of the Welsh Rally in 2006, we will be based at a reasonably priced Best
Western Hotel (with swimming pool and gym) close to Stockton-on-Tees.
Participants are welcome to attend for one, two or three nights, but something
special is planned for Monday – so don’t disappear too early and regret
it later!
Friday
Meet all your friends in the
afternoon, chat in the car park, share dinner together, then visit the
local Good Beer Guide recommended pub.
Saturday
Drive in convoy through the
industrial heartlands of the north, where coal mining, steel & chemical
production and shipbuilding led to the birth of the railways. We will
cross the river Tees by the famous Middlesbrough
Transporter Bridge (pictured above) and continue up the rugged north
east coast to a working pumping station. From there, onwards to the famous
Angel of the
North followed by a further drive through beautiful countryside to
other interesting locations. We will be back at the hotel in time to enjoy
the facilities. The day will also feature quizzes to keep you on your
toes. Prizes will be awarded at our rally dinner in the evening.
Sunday
Today will involve visiting
the National
Railway Museum reserve collection at Shildon, followed by a drive
up into beautiful Teesdale,
where we will visit one of the highest waterfalls in England and pose
for photographs in front of some magnificent buildings.
Monday
A surprise visit in the morning –
followed by a drive through beautiful scenery and on to a Good Beer Guide pub
for lunch. The rally will close and we can set off for home mid afternoon.
So... how to book?
First,
ring the hotel (details enclosed with last Fanmail) and ask to book
a room for the nights of 25th, 26th and 27th July 2008, quoting the keyword
that you've been advised. Rates are £59 per person per night for Dinner,
Bed and Breakfast for two people sharing a room, or £75 for a single room
– there are only a few single rooms, so you might want to share with a friend.
The hotel will not reserve our room allocation after the end of March,
so book now!
Next,
send the slip provided to Paul Wilson, along with your cheque for £15,
made payable to Tatra Register UK. The first ten participants to book
their hotel accommodation will have their entry fee refunded – so do it
now! Lost your form already? Request another at: info@tatra-register.co.uk
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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 the well-presented
blue Škoda MB1000 at Crich. 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
Click
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... for over 200 Tatra-related videos
and
here:
... for one of our favourites
a
delightful animation from Cenek Strichel at www.cenda.cz
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
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