I Saw My First TATRA! & So many Classic European Cars

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[Real_Claudy_Focan]

Even for european museums, these are pretty rare models..
You found a really good museum there !

[foxfirene]

Greetings from Czech Republic, the country of Tatra cars and trucks. The emblem at 3:35 is actually the Great Coat of Arms of Czech Republic, so you know. Thank U for showing Tatras.

[Rangatology]

My Dad passed away this Saturday gone by, he would’ve loved this museum.

[michelbeauloye]

At 11:58, a DAF is shown as being Swedish when in fact it is Dutch. In fact, DAF Cars has been bought by Volvo while they still build trucks in the Netherlands.
At 12:12, this block Citroën Gasogène is actually running on WOOD! During WWII, there was a shortage of gas for private use and they installed those furnaces to produce gaz from charcoal (the solution was not very effective, but it was better than nothing at that time).

[DenUitvreter]

The Citroen DS, the single greatest step forward in automotive innovation since the invention of the wheel. I like this museum, this collection is obviously a tribute to all the designers and engineers that rethought the car, that thought outside the box and therefore sometimes came up with a tear drop, or with a box.

[zabimarru]

"Tatra nezná bratra" 💪I love your videos man. Greetings from Czech Republic. 👋

[martinkovar]

Fun fact how to recognise that the tatra in 5:07 is pre-WW2 and tatras you showed before are made after WW2 is the side of the steering wheel, because before occupation by germany, people in czechoslovakia were driving on left side of the road. But it was changed because in germany they drove on the right side

[tonyzed]

OMG a Renault Avantime. THIS would be an entire video for a US car lover if one could put his hands on one and drive it.

[geiroveeilertsen]

The big sticker at 4:47 is definitely something Welsh.... 🙂

[zdenekdolezal]

Hello from Czech Republic.
Tatra 815 Truck - jeah that colouring is deffinitely from 90' crazy times.

T700 was one of the last cars Tatra ever made (after that only trucks) and it was just marketing name for more radical facelift of T613. Which already had 4 other previous facelists. T700 itself had one more later facelift with diferent engine cover and glass obove it.
T613 here is third model (second facelift) that was first with plastic parts (bumpers and things like that) Previous two wersions had a lot of chrom parts.
T603 here is first model (of two later facelifts or three depending on what you still takes as facelift). Second wersion had more chrom with 4 front lights extremely close to easch other. Another facelifts and all versions after had 4 lights again, but less chrome and wider look. (under rear window inside car above engine is nice place for kid to sleep there. :) )
T87 - was one of the best aerodynamic cars ever. It was Nazzi killer. During WWII German nazzi officers loved thhose cars. They were more comfortable than any german car of that era. But they were so comfortable, that they couldn't feel the speed and drived them too fast with a lot of tragical accidents from irresponcibylity driving. (also there were no safety featuresin those cars or basicly in any car of that era). Those cars probably killed more Nazzi officers then war itself (until the point where Hittler forbids his officers to use them).
Also you should look at engines of those cars. They are beauties. Especially T603.


Tatra cars of almost any era was luxurious cars created mostly for Czechoslovakian government (and Czech government later on). But in 90's when kommunist party went down and other companies came to our market, Tatras were too expensive and too outdated of their technologies and safety measures, that they went bancrupt. Only truck division was barely surviving for more then two decades and constantly changing its owners (even american Terex owned them but mostly looted them) until new owners of the Czech arms industry bought them and restarted them from basicly nothingness.

[ondrejkonopasek]

When my mom was growing up, her dad had T603. All neighbours hated them cuz that car took up twice as much space as regular cars sold behind the iron curtain. She has 3 siblings and shes always talking about how 4 teenagers were riding at the back. Thats how spacious it was.

[gregorseehofer]

You are an open minded guy, appreciate your videos. Greetings from Austria 🍻

[Tomas-oqyy]

The Tatra both 603 and 613 were used as a presidential cars in Czechoslovakia, but were also sold as a regular car. And let me tell you, if you owned a Tatra at the time when it came out, you meant buisness. My great grandfather used to have a T-603, and he was a lead of a small cooperative (sorry couldn't find good translation).

[adamivan]

1:40 T815 is running 19 litre air-cooled twin turbo V12, which was the best engine option you could get back in the day.

[LimaAlfaDelta]

Dat Beetle with the external AC unit.... I just lost it there.... :))))

[knudsburg]

Funny, the black Tatra has a front number plate from Germany! FL-D 622 and the first 2 letters means Flensburg which stands for the town in which the car was registered, which is only 40 km away from where I live. ☺

[Dave_from_Technical]

The Lotus 7 was the original design, when Lotus decided to retire the model in the early 70's Caterham bought the rights to manufacture it, which they continue to do to this day. 😉👍
Excellent video, that's a great collection of quirky and well preserved cars.

[xitsatnuf]

In Germany, we don't even have such models in our museums. The Technik Museum Sinsheim features a DeLorean and some Formula 1 cars, along with the Concorde and its Russian counterpart. The Technik Museum Speyer is more famous for its Airbus suspended at 70m height, the Russian Space Shuttle Buran, and a submarine. All of these exhibits are accessible. You might consider planning a vacation in Germany. The two museums are barely an hour apart and offer combination tickets.

[KISSFanDan]

I want that Tatra 6x6. Ditch the car hauler, add a camper uplift, a heavy duty lift kit and some beefier tires. Or add a 5th wheel and buy an old reefer to convert to a part RV, part car/toy hauler.

[galier]

Nice collection. Some remarkable points you missed. The red Tatra is the model that inspired Ferdinand Porsche for the VW Beetle. It was so "inspired" that Tatra sued Volkswagen for patent infringment and would have won if Germany hadn't invaded Czechoslovakia inn 1938.
On the Citroën models shown as people have mentioned the DS is iconic but it is not the only special exemplary. The traction (the black one) from 1938 was also one of the most innovative cars of its time. It's the first mass produced car with front wheel drive with wielded unibody. The model in your video has also the peculariety of using a wood gas generator for fuel.