Tatra 87
Tatra 87 | ||
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Curb weight 1,370 kg (3,020 lb)[3] | | |
Chronology | ||
Predecessor | Tatra 77a | |
Successor | Tatra 603 |
The Tatra 87 (T87) is a car built by
The 87 was used by Hanzelka and Zikmund for their travel through Africa and Latin America from 1947 to 1950.[6]
Design
The Tatra 87 has unique bodywork. Its streamlined shape was designed by
Small sets of windows in the dividers between the passenger, luggage space and engine compartments, plus louvres providing air for the air-cooled engine, allowed limited rear visibility. Its entire rear segment could be opened, to service the engine. The front doors are rear-hinged coach doors, sometimes termed "
Many design elements of the Tatra 87, V570 and the later T97, were copied by later car manufacturers. Ferdinand Porsche was heavily influenced by the Tatra 87 and T97 and the flat-four-cylinder engine in his design of the Volkswagen Beetle, and was subsequently sued by Tatra.
The price new (in the 1940s) was 25,000
Notable owners
Streamlined Tatras
- Tatra V570 1931, 1933
- Tatra 77 1933-1938
- Tatra 87 1936-1950
- Tatra 97 1936-1939
- Tatra 600 Tatraplan1946-1952
- Tatra 603 1956-1975
- Hans Ledwinka - the Tatra constructer (when pensioned he got one as a gift from Felix Wankel. This car is now on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich)
- Eliška Junková - one of the greatest female drivers in Grand Prix motor racing history
- Ernst Heinkel - German Nazi aircraft designer, whose company produced the world's first turbojet aircraft and jet plane, as well as the first rocket aircraft
- Felix Wankel - German engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine
- Emil František Burian - Czech poet, journalist, singer, actor, musician, composer, dramatic adviser, playwright and director
- Vítězslav Nezval - one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia
- Erwin Rommel - German General and Field Marshal of World War II (used also Tatra's Czech competitor, Škoda Superb, in the field)
- Andrey Yeryomenko - Soviet General and Field Marshal of World War II (received the first T87 manufactured after WW2 as a present, this car is now on display in the Tatra museum)
- John Steinbeck - American writer
- Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Prague
- President of Czechoslovakia
- 1948 coup d'état
- television host
- Norman Foster - a British architect
[4]
The Tatra 87 was praised by
Literature
Margolius, Ivan & Henry, John G., Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2015,
References
- ^ a b c "1948 Tatra 87". conceptcarz.com. Retrieved 2008-03-12.
- ^ a b "1947 TATRA 87 SALOON". Lane Motor Museum.
- ^ a b "Tatra 87". tatraportal.sk. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Tatra 87". aerotatra.czweb.org. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
- ^ Karel Rosenkranz, 100 Years of Tatra Passenger Cars, Motormedia 1998
- Radio Praha, retrieved 3 June 2016
- ^ Ralf J. F. Kieselbach, Stromlinienautos in Europa und USA, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, page 19
- ^ Tori Tellem (2010-07-23). "Collectible Car of the Year: Votes Are In, and the Fin Has Won". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-22.
- ^ "1941 Tatra T 87". The New York Times. 2010-07-25.
- ^ "Slavné české auto slaví osmdesátiny. Průkopnice aerodynamiky Tatra 77". iDNES.cz. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- ^ Ivan Margolius & John G. Henry, Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2015, page 133