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.
Tatras were considered very sporty in the 1930s, and became very popular with German military officers and pilots after the WW2 invasion of Czechoslovakia. With the big rear engined sports cars having 'interesting' handling characteristics, it led to many fatal accidents - so many that occupying German military staff were banned from owning them.
... It is a geat coat of arms of Czech Republic. It is composed of four fields. Two (first and fourth) are showing small coat of arms of Czech Republic, which is a silver lion with golden crown, golden claws, hissing tongue and twin tails shown on red field (heraldry of Bohemia/Czech). Second field shows blue field with checkered (in white and red) eagle (female) (heraldry of Moravia). Third shows on golden field a black eagle (female) with silver crescent moon on breast (heraldry of Silesia). Polish voivodeship of Lower Silesia is using a similar but much simpler heraldry. Both heraldry can be traced back to medieval times, to the Silesian Piast dynasty, and in Czech the eagle took red claws and tongue for Habsburg heraldry of two headed black eagle.
@@Blackadder75 There were not enough cars to buy PERIOD, multi year waiting lists even for basic Skoda etc. So these were all taken by high profile communists, mostly in thegovernment and the army. You would see them on the road once in a blue moon
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).
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
@@tabletikmaminkin5229 that was Tatra T87 . T97 was the one that Germans (nazis) took inspiration from to build their stupid vw beetle, they basicaly robbed it and than banned it from production so beetle could have clean path
mužeš mu řict že na těch Tatrach obou jak te puvodní 613 a te novějši 613 že mají doplnky ze škodovky třeba jako že zrcatka na stare su z favorita blinkry a budiky na nove z Felicie ja umim prd anglicky jinak by mu to napsal sam 🤣 ale krasa že kajsik v americe su naše stroje 😍 a chtěl by vidět jeho reakci na Velorexa 😂
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.
Agreed. The Citroen DS is the most interesting car of all time in my opinion. Jay Leno has a great video showcasing his DS. I think IWRocker would enjoy that one.
@@gergelystechnicmodels8565 Or Top Gear with James May on it in the greatest car of all time. I don't even think it's pretty, especially not with the old head lights. I love the SM much more. But it's such a charismatic car, it's always eye catching, you can park an old rusty one among very expensive cars and will catch everybody's attention.
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.
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).
My grandfather was manager director of a cooperative too, in the capitalist West. Basically the farmers were the owners who brought in their milk, and employed him to run the factory. He drove a few American V8's, as one the few in the village to own a car.
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.
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.
In interest of accuracy I would add that the red Tatra Zdenek reffers to as a T 87 is infact smaler and rather rarer example of T97, a later car, smaler thna 87 aimed at middle class markets. It can also be thought of as a little larger and more practical version of VW Beetle (however those came into production rather later) sharing very similar concepts (Rear engined, rear wheel drived, air coleed)
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.
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. ☺
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.
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.
you took it from my mouth, I was also going to comment the Traction Avant, people dont know that it was first European car without a frame but unibody and modern multipoint suspension. It was so popular before WWII that Citroen even opened a factory in Germany. The DS, when it came out, was instantly sold out, and funny fact is, that it was using the very same engine as the aforementioned Traction Avant.
The Tatra was known as the nazi killer. Nazi (German) officers stole them and killed so many of themselves (score😉) that the German authorities banned them from driving them. The Tatras had swing axle rear suspension with air cooled V8s slung out of the back. Ferdinand Porsche copied Tatras when he designed the beetle in the 30s. These also had swing axles with an air cooled motor hanging out the back, equally hopeless for stability, but cheap and popular.
There's this pretty fun, entry-level form of Nordic Rallycross class, called Folk Racing, which combines small and slightly dodgy looking cars and motor racing-as in cool cars like old Volvos, Saabs and BMWs: "Mika Hakkinen Teaches Captain Slow to Drive | Top Gear", "Jokkis Finnish Folk RacIng: A Race For Anyone With Wheels!", "Racing a 1500€ Car At Epic Jokkis Race In Finland | WRC 2019" "Vicious Volvos & Smashed Up Saabs: This Is Folk Racing - Carfection" and "Hardest Jokkis Crashes 2015-2020".
The 603 show around the 5 minutet mark is a Type-1. The 603-2 had 4 headlights bur got rid of the centre headlight. The centre headlight turned in the directio of the bend you would be taking.' Tucker head a similar thing back in the day.
11:15 This Peugeot 205 1.6 GTI had my grandfather. He's saying to me all the time that it was very fast car back in the day, especially in corners. Few days ago it had 40th anniversary. One of the most iconic cars of all time.
Fun fact: Auto Union, as he said was the old name for AUDI. One other meaning for the word 'AUDI', is the four letters for Audi, stand for A - Auto, U - Union, D - Deutschland (Germany), I - Ingolstadt (the city in Germany where Audi was started). It's also a Latin word!!!
11:24 the peugeot 205 GTi, old granny in my town drives EXACTLY one like that, same colored even... she does not want to sell it... i have asked lol! regards from finland! we have also some very cool car museums, especially RALLY CAR museums :)
You gotta check out a DAF variomatic someday. They are very unique Dutch-made cars that could drive as fast in reverse as in drive. We had a local racing series called "achteruit racen", which translates to "reverse racing". It was a spectacle to see
haha i mentioned this in the 2CV video. Its just too quircky and the achteruit race videos are funny. Especially with the André van Duin commentary (that is if you understand dutch).
It's branded as a Volvo here, a later one therefore. The dark green one. It had the first CVT, very smart and simple system. It also ended up in a race car and was about to enter Formula 1, but it was outlawed because it would be much faster than the others. They could have tuned the engine for one specific rev number since the CVT would do the rest, and that's too much to work with for an F1 engineer. The same speed in reverse was just the outcome of the system used. Because it was so easy to use in the days of double clutching in small cars, and quick of the line, the engines were kept small and it was very popular among not to keen drivers, women and the elderly. This ruined the image of the car after a few decades. It was called "old tart shaker with suspender belt drive". DAF came up with the Marathon coupe, a sporty and quick version that did well in rallies, but it was too late.
@@nutzeeer The bright green volvo at the end of the row is a daf with a volvo emblem from the time volvo just had bought the daf cars factory. (Also readable on the information card) The founder of daf also invented the cvt. jarreletelaandrijving or garterbelt drive) ps. there is also daf trucks, owned by paccar.
Tell the wife the Tatra is half the price of a Unimog and she will love it 😄 Years ago I owned a Peugeot 106 from the 90s. It was very light weight and a lot of fun to drive with its 75 hp engine. Sadly, it consumed more and more spare parts every year. And still, when I think about it today, I think I should have kept it.
Wonderful museum indeed ! The Citroen Méhari prototype is UNIQUE ! I am French and I never saw it. The Peugeot 205 gti is the GOAT on the road. Good video !! Hello to all your family from France 🇫🇷 ! The country of luxury cars.
I currently own a 1974 Tatra 603. These were produced from 1955 to 1975 over a period of three generations, with the 'main' difference being the changes to the front fascia along with other details. The engine is a rear mounted air-cooled hemi V8 with a displacement of only 2.5 liters and with a power output of only 105 horsepower. It easily propels the car up to 100 mph due to the low drag (the 603 was the last streamliner Tatra produced). I have some videos of it on my channel. You should have a look at the commercial they made called "Tatra Happy Journey".
The 1938 Tatra was also known as secret Czechoslovak weapon as German officers used to drive them at high speeds and loosing control due to most of the car weight being in the rear. Soon after Wehrmacht specifically forbade its officers from driving Tatras due to this.
Wow, thats a great museum, heaps of vehicles I have never seen either. Dani gets excited too. A great day out. Emma looks like a very young Wednesday Addams!!! I love her outfit. Cheers!
that blue gti you looked at. the 1.8 version hammers because they were designed and sold with a short through gearbox. my parents had one for a while exact same color and off the line it would keep up with higher power cars as it is light as with the short throw gears.
I REALLY envy you. I'm living in Germany, around 500 km next to the Czech Republic, but I never saw a Tatra car in my life. Not even those two times, I was in the Czech Republic !!!
There is a great Tatra museum in Moravia (Koprivnice) + there are some of the rare models in National Technical Museum in Prague ;-) you will not see them in daily traffic as they became a collector items and are quite expensive to get.
Jeremy Clarkson did an episode in one of those tiny tiny cars. If he fits, so will you 😁 That green Volvo is the same design as the Dutch daf. Volvo bought daf and continued to make them. There was a tv show where they raced them using reverse gear only. First with VDT transmission. as fast going forward as going back. achteruitrijden was the name of the episodes
Hi, I am from Slovakia, was born in Czechoslovakia, and the Tatras are very cool cars an they were very modern constructed for that time. In my childhood a lot of them run on the streets, but only comunistic politicians are people with very important functions drove such cars Tatras are cool cars. It was a privilege. normal common people were not allowed to have such cars.The middle light of tatra 603 is turnable in the side you turn your steering wheel.
The red car in the "Extras" section with the door at the front - my mum used to have one of those Bubble Cars!. When you open the door, part of the steering column hinged out of the way. So it would be mum driving, one of us two kids in the front seat and one curled up on the rear shelf. Safety last! Noisy and not very fast, but a car with character.
nice video. Had a nice afternoon? The green Volvo you liked so much is actually a DAF. When Volvo took over the passenger car from DAF, they further built the Dafodiel, as it was called. This was the only worldwide variomatic at the time. It is remarkable that a daf could drive backwards just as fast as forwards. Reverse races were held in the Netherlands. Keep make these videos👍
11:25 the Peugeot 205 was so so popular in the UK. As someone who passed his driving test in 1992, a second hand 205 was about the coolest car you could realistically get! Actually I did pass my driving test in one (my instructor’s).
My mother used to drive a Mehari when she was young in the late 70's and theyre still a comman seen car in Ibiza and Palma Islands around Spain also they have a collectors car club in Spain :D
the green volvo is a DAF, they changed it to volvo after they took over the DAF Factory, funny thing is, that daf can go as fast backwards as forward..
14:45 this is the wolkswagen XL1, for a long time it was the best ever mpg vehicule in the world ( not sure if it still is ) powered by a hybrid twin cylinder diesel, lots of carbon fiber elements and a lot of work on the aerodinamic, I think it was sold new around 150.000€
If you love anything automotive, you should check out the Britten motorcycle that was broke some motorcycle speed records and designed and built by a Kiwi in his garage by John Britten R.I.P.
Grandpa is a hero! 🙂 Too bad the Volvo P1800 wasn't there in the museum. Manufactured and marketed by Volvo between 1961 and 1973. One of my favourite car, too beautiful... :-)
Great video. As a Czech, I got to know a lot of historic European cars. Paradoxically, I was most surprised by the Tatra 49.( 18:33 ) From the shape of the bonnet, it was immediately clear to me that it was a Tatra, but I didn't know the version with 3 wheels.
Who the F are you man?? I am a 53 year old 1st generation European Australian white man in Australia. I just found your site 1 week ago and am addicted. Your interest and fascination in our Indigenous is so beautiful. The fact you wear a shirt with Aboriginal print in this video is awesome. You are more Aussie than most of us. Walawaani
dude if you love trucks and tatras... you would love playing "snowrunner" the game. theres all sorts of tatras and other trucks from all over the world. super addictive game
"Look at this little Fiat" Yay, my favourite Fiat the Panda was in the picture! Did you know it's featured in the Netflix series Love Death & Robots season 1 episode "Three Robots". I do miss a Simca 1000, Lancia Delta and the Mercedes/Daimler Benz L319 (this one's for truck lovers) in the collection, but you can't have everything, just glad the Panda is there. That Mehari prototype was actually altered for production and consumer use to have ridges in the plating to give it more stability the prototype was made out of flat sheet metal because that was the design, but it didn't hold up and made too much noise when driving. And also the external AC unit was an American invention, sorry for going car nuts😅
It's a Tatra 6x6 815, I have a plastic one at home when I was little, so I used to transport sand on it, Dad has two world patents for a tubular frame, it's still used today, and before that an air-cooled diesel was used, it had Euro 5 emissions, it's expensive in Europe diesel A Tatra needs difficult terrain to be economically efficient, the bigger off-road legend is the Praga v3s 6x6, it is lighter so it fits in the mud, it is still used today but as a forest pick-up or well drilling rig, production started in the 1950s, but the cars were military for the cold war and on the roof they have a hatch for a machine gun, the car is very slow 40 miles per hour, it is also used for railway repairs, and the engine is a military multi-fuel diesel, in case of war, gasoline with motor oil or gasoline and diesel could be used 1: 1
When these cars still had two-stroke engines, they were called Auto Union. With the four-stroke engine from Mercedes, it was renamed Audi. After that, Audi was sold to Volkswagen. Then Audi supported Volkswagen with the concept for the VW Golf.
Looks like a nice motor museum. Love the time when car makers had their own identity and character, not afraid to be bold. There's a fun video called happy journey featuring a Tatra 603 you might enjoy.
That's also to the credit of the museum, it clearly has a preference for those who rethink the car, start from scratch again and come up with something completely different.
@@automation7295 No, it's the mainly the marketeers and the bean counters. Regulations don't help but there is also little uncharted territory left. We know a V8 behind the rear axle has handling issues now, the car is nearing perfection so they start to look more alike. Perfection is boring of course.
@@DenUitvreter If perfection is boring, then it can also imply that older cars are boring. No car is perfect technically speaking. Regulations did affect car design, that's also why cars aren't allowed to have fins, low and wedge-shape bonnets, pop-up headlights, etc. All cars nowadays must have crumple zones, raised bonnets, fixed headlights (no pop-up headlights), etc, due to pedestrians safety laws. That's also way Lotus Esprit and Chevrolet Corvette C5 were the last cars to feature pop-up headlights, both creased production in 2004.
You should visit Europe, especialy Stuttgart, Germany. There are four Car/Technical museums close each other. Sinsheim Technical, Speyer, Mercedes museum and Porsche museum.
G'day Ian & Family hope you are all well. What a fantastic museum some fantastic cars🚗. Sending you much cheer & love from Down Under 🇦🇺🐨🦘❤️.❤️🇺🇸 🦅❤️🇲🇽🥰.
I have interesting fact about tatra if you are interested. So tatra is world third oldest car manufacturer. Tatras 77/87(as seen on video) were designed by Hans Ledwinka. As matter of fact Ferdinand Porshe knew Hans Ledwinka and copied lot of designes from that car and aplied it to VW Beatle and first Porshe 356(911 predecesor). When WWII ended Hans Ledwinka sued Porshe for that and won 1 milion marks. There is also a myth that more ss officers were killed while driving tatra 77/87 (thay did not expect oversteering) like by czechoslovakian army. Also in Madmax film, most big trucks are tatra trucks. And there is also video that some US fire departmenst are using tatra trucks during wildland fires.
The Volvo 66 is interesting. It started out as a DAF car, a Dutch truck and car manufacturer (they still make trucks), but the cars weren't a big success. So they sold it to Volvo. Volvo put in a Renault engine. My grandfather was a Renault mechanic and in his free time he serviced some cars (only Renaults but because of the Renault engine he had some customers with the small Volvo's). It used the variomatic transmission (still in use by some manufacturers like Toyota as the CVT transmission). These cars could drive the same speed going forward as backward. In the 80's we had a program on tv where people would race these cars backward.
Could you give a link to these reverse races - sounds hilarious and very cool. I think the Volvo 360 GLT, with rear transaxle, was also a DAF. An Australian adventurer, who made films, stubbled upon a little DAF in Africa with the variomatic transmission, and fell in love with it. Was easy to repair and the transmission's action was easy to understand with basically cones and bands.
Okay, cool, thankyou - it was Australia's first " small " Volvo - we had only the 240 series and the 740/60 series up until then. They used them to rally here and the motoring journalists rated them very highly. Unfortunately we never got the awesome coupe with the pop up headlights and the grille under the bumper - 480 ? They looked really good and different. We eventually got the C30 coupe. I do like the Polestars.
The Citroen DS is such an impressive car now, back then it could have been alien tech. Watch the Jay leno garage episode on the car. 1 car I didn't see was a Volvo p1800, there are still a few on the road, but are now rare and expensive, gorgeous though. As a teenager I really wanted a 205GTI the 1600 was good the 1900 was mental!
Fantastic video Ian 👏 I just love those old Tatras. The whole car show you featured in Nashville was brilliant, thank you. I'd love to walk around such a car show. Really appreciate the effort you and for family put into making these stunning videos. Well done Ian, keep up the great work 👍💯 MMonk 🇦🇺
11:24 A Peugeot 205 GTI. This is the only Peugeot i would love to own sometime in my life. The car is famous and got a good history. 11:41 Thats the old Fiat Panda a very unique car! It was the first car from my mom! Sadly i was only as a young kid in this car it was a black one. I got my driver license in 2022 so sad this Fiat Panda from my mom doesnt exist anymore :(
Even for european museums, these are pretty rare models..
You found a really good museum there !
The Tatra 97 is really super rare even in former Czechoslovakia.
My Dad passed away this Saturday gone by, he would’ve loved this museum.
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.
For who were those Tatra cars made in communist times?
Tatras were considered very sporty in the 1930s, and became very popular with German military officers and pilots after the WW2 invasion of Czechoslovakia. With the big rear engined sports cars having 'interesting' handling characteristics, it led to many fatal accidents - so many that occupying German military staff were banned from owning them.
... It is a geat coat of arms of Czech Republic. It is composed of four fields. Two (first and fourth) are showing small coat of arms of Czech Republic, which is a silver lion with golden crown, golden claws, hissing tongue and twin tails shown on red field (heraldry of Bohemia/Czech). Second field shows blue field with checkered (in white and red) eagle (female) (heraldry of Moravia). Third shows on golden field a black eagle (female) with silver crescent moon on breast (heraldry of Silesia).
Polish voivodeship of Lower Silesia is using a similar but much simpler heraldry. Both heraldry can be traced back to medieval times, to the Silesian Piast dynasty, and in Czech the eagle took red claws and tongue for Habsburg heraldry of two headed black eagle.
@@Blackadder75 There were not enough cars to buy PERIOD, multi year waiting lists even for basic Skoda etc. So these were all taken by high profile communists, mostly in thegovernment and the army. You would see them on the road once in a blue moon
@@Blackadder75 T613 for first secretary of KSC
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).
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.
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
“Czech Secret Weapon.” tatra prodused cars that killed more Nazi officers than in active combat
that was the model on which Zikmund and Hanzelka went around the world
@@tabletikmaminkin5229 that was Tatra T87 . T97 was the one that Germans (nazis) took inspiration from to build their stupid vw beetle, they basicaly robbed it and than banned it from production so beetle could have clean path
Well, seems like the Germans did at least *something* good for us...
@@4tbf616 LOL
"Tatra nezná bratra" 💪I love your videos man. Greetings from Czech Republic. 👋
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mužeš mu řict že na těch Tatrach obou jak te puvodní 613 a te novějši 613 že mají doplnky ze škodovky třeba jako že zrcatka na stare su z favorita blinkry a budiky na nove z Felicie ja umim prd anglicky jinak by mu to napsal sam 🤣 ale krasa že kajsik v americe su naše stroje 😍 a chtěl by vidět jeho reakci na Velorexa 😂
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.
I am so lucky that I have one on my street.
Agreed. The Citroen DS is the most interesting car of all time in my opinion. Jay Leno has a great video showcasing his DS. I think IWRocker would enjoy that one.
@@gergelystechnicmodels8565 Or Top Gear with James May on it in the greatest car of all time. I don't even think it's pretty, especially not with the old head lights. I love the SM much more. But it's such a charismatic car, it's always eye catching, you can park an old rusty one among very expensive cars and will catch everybody's attention.
I can only but agree, being the proud owner of a '72 DS23 Pallas, since 1987
@@stefanthiem6630 DS23 Pallas is the best,
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.
The big sticker at 4:47 is definitely something Welsh.... 🙂
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).
My grandfather was manager director of a cooperative too, in the capitalist West. Basically the farmers were the owners who brought in their milk, and employed him to run the factory. He drove a few American V8's, as one the few in the village to own a car.
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.
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.
In interest of accuracy I would add that the red Tatra Zdenek reffers to as a T 87 is infact smaler and rather rarer example of T97, a later car, smaler thna 87 aimed at middle class markets. It can also be thought of as a little larger and more practical version of VW Beetle (however those came into production rather later) sharing very similar concepts (Rear engined, rear wheel drived, air coleed)
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.
Dat Beetle with the external AC unit.... I just lost it there.... :))))
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.
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. ☺
I was wondering this too. 😱
You are an open minded guy, appreciate your videos. Greetings from Austria 🍻
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.
The T601 Tatra was the vehicle in the Lemonysnicketts movie.
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.
Tatra actually won the court battle after the war and VW had to pay for it.
you took it from my mouth, I was also going to comment the Traction Avant, people dont know that it was first European car without a frame but unibody and modern multipoint suspension. It was so popular before WWII that Citroen even opened a factory in Germany. The DS, when it came out, was instantly sold out, and funny fact is, that it was using the very same engine as the aforementioned Traction Avant.
The Tatra was known as the nazi killer. Nazi (German) officers stole them and killed so many of themselves (score😉) that the German authorities banned them from driving them. The Tatras had swing axle rear suspension with air cooled V8s slung out of the back. Ferdinand Porsche copied Tatras when he designed the beetle in the 30s. These also had swing axles with an air cooled motor hanging out the back, equally hopeless for stability, but cheap and popular.
The Nazi Killer: 1938 Tatra T87 - Jay Leno’s Garage good video about Tatra
We love you!!! From Czech Republic!!!
There's this pretty fun, entry-level form of Nordic Rallycross class, called Folk Racing, which combines small and slightly dodgy looking cars and motor racing-as in cool cars like old Volvos, Saabs and BMWs: "Mika Hakkinen Teaches Captain Slow to Drive | Top Gear", "Jokkis Finnish Folk RacIng: A Race For Anyone With Wheels!", "Racing a 1500€ Car At Epic Jokkis Race In Finland | WRC 2019" "Vicious Volvos & Smashed Up Saabs: This Is Folk Racing - Carfection" and "Hardest Jokkis Crashes 2015-2020".
Two cobras behind the cabin is a V12 cylinder T815 engine
The 603 show around the 5 minutet mark is a Type-1. The 603-2 had 4 headlights bur got rid of the centre headlight.
The centre headlight turned in the directio of the bend you would be taking.'
Tucker head a similar thing back in the day.
I always find your enthusiasm quite entertaining, but your wife's is so much better! 😁
Grandpa is a gem and your kids are cute!
Thank you!!!🎉
The 1938 Tatra was the real unique and precious one. It was the inventor of car aerodynamics car actually
"It was only 1000 dollars". :D That is 21,336 dollars today. :). Amazing museum. Really rare European cars.
11:15 This Peugeot 205 1.6 GTI had my grandfather. He's saying to me all the time that it was very fast car back in the day, especially in corners. Few days ago it had 40th anniversary. One of the most iconic cars of all time.
_stoupa2_. believe me, as a former owner, a 205 Gti with good tyres will corner like a trout.
Jeah the 1.6 GTI was wonderful.....better and faster than the Golf GTi
The 205 GTi was the queen of Red fires Grand Prix. In 1.6, it was a very good car, and in 1.9, it could become very dangerous.
@@AngelinaJolie734 you mean the GTI 1.9 120 HP ? Yeah this car was awesome.....makes so much fun on the roads in the Alcase and black forest.....
My sister owned a 205 GTI, although I think it was the 1.9l version. Was pretty fun to drive :)
Fun fact: Auto Union, as he said was the old name for AUDI. One other meaning for the word 'AUDI', is the four letters for Audi, stand for
A - Auto, U - Union, D - Deutschland (Germany), I - Ingolstadt (the city in Germany where Audi was started). It's also a Latin word!!!
11:24 the peugeot 205 GTi, old granny in my town drives EXACTLY one like that, same colored even... she does not want to sell it... i have asked lol! regards from finland! we have also some very cool car museums, especially RALLY CAR museums :)
You gotta check out a DAF variomatic someday. They are very unique Dutch-made cars that could drive as fast in reverse as in drive. We had a local racing series called "achteruit racen", which translates to "reverse racing". It was a spectacle to see
haha i mentioned this in the 2CV video. Its just too quircky and the achteruit race videos are funny. Especially with the André van Duin commentary (that is if you understand dutch).
It's branded as a Volvo here, a later one therefore. The dark green one. It had the first CVT, very smart and simple system. It also ended up in a race car and was about to enter Formula 1, but it was outlawed because it would be much faster than the others. They could have tuned the engine for one specific rev number since the CVT would do the rest, and that's too much to work with for an F1 engineer. The same speed in reverse was just the outcome of the system used.
Because it was so easy to use in the days of double clutching in small cars, and quick of the line, the engines were kept small and it was very popular among not to keen drivers, women and the elderly. This ruined the image of the car after a few decades. It was called "old tart shaker with suspender belt drive". DAF came up with the Marathon coupe, a sporty and quick version that did well in rallies, but it was too late.
some volvos have this, as volvo bought a DAF factory at some point to avoid EU import tax.
I actually mentioned this a couple of days ago. So there's a demand.
@@nutzeeer The bright green volvo at the end of the row is a daf with a volvo emblem from the time volvo just had bought the daf cars factory. (Also readable on the information card)
The founder of daf also invented the cvt. jarreletelaandrijving or garterbelt drive)
ps. there is also daf trucks, owned by paccar.
the pink/red little car beside the blue one you liked last, is a Norwegian SMART car.
Tell the wife the Tatra is half the price of a Unimog and she will love it 😄
Years ago I owned a Peugeot 106 from the 90s. It was very light weight and a lot of fun to drive with its 75 hp engine. Sadly, it consumed more and more spare parts every year. And still, when I think about it today, I think I should have kept it.
Wonderful museum indeed !
The Citroen Méhari prototype is UNIQUE !
I am French and I never saw it.
The Peugeot 205 gti is the GOAT on the road.
Good video !!
Hello to all your family from France 🇫🇷 !
The country of luxury cars.
I currently own a 1974 Tatra 603. These were produced from 1955 to 1975 over a period of three generations, with the 'main' difference being the changes to the front fascia along with other details.
The engine is a rear mounted air-cooled hemi V8 with a displacement of only 2.5 liters and with a power output of only 105 horsepower. It easily propels the car up to 100 mph due to the low drag (the 603 was the last streamliner Tatra produced).
I have some videos of it on my channel. You should have a look at the commercial they made called "Tatra Happy Journey".
The 1938 Tatra was also known as secret Czechoslovak weapon as German officers used to drive them at high speeds and loosing control due to most of the car weight being in the rear. Soon after Wehrmacht specifically forbade its officers from driving Tatras due to this.
fun fact, the 38' Tatra is the OG Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche stole the design and implemented it, and once Germany invaded them, they couldn't sue
@@pumelo1 that's exactly what I said
Wow, thats a great museum, heaps of vehicles I have never seen either. Dani gets excited too. A great day out.
Emma looks like a very young Wednesday Addams!!! I love her outfit.
Cheers!
Thank you for showing this museum collection.
Some guys from Czech republic traveled africa with that Tatra from 1938
205 GTI, what a legend.
If you ever find yourself in Europe, Tatra have really great museum here in Czech republic
My uncle had a Citroen Berline 11 in the early sixties, apparently. He would impress all the ladies in the village until he broke the CV joints.
that blue gti you looked at. the 1.8 version hammers because they were designed and sold with a short through gearbox. my parents had one for a while exact same color and off the line it would keep up with higher power cars as it is light as with the short throw gears.
Wow this place is awesome, so many unique cars!
I REALLY envy you. I'm living in Germany, around 500 km next to the Czech Republic, but I never saw a Tatra car in my life. Not even those two times, I was in the Czech Republic !!!
I saw them in Hungary in the late 80's, high communist party officials being transported.
Hey! Same here...
There is a great Tatra museum in Moravia (Koprivnice) + there are some of the rare models in National Technical Museum in Prague ;-) you will not see them in daily traffic as they became a collector items and are quite expensive to get.
What an awesome and beautiful museum!
Jeremy Clarkson did an episode in one of those tiny tiny cars. If he fits, so will you 😁
That green Volvo is the same design as the Dutch daf. Volvo bought daf and continued to make them. There was a tv show where they raced them using reverse gear only. First with VDT transmission. as fast going forward as going back. achteruitrijden was the name of the episodes
Hi, I am from Slovakia, was born in Czechoslovakia, and the Tatras are very cool cars an they were very modern constructed for that time. In my childhood a lot of them run on the streets, but only comunistic politicians are people with very important functions drove such cars Tatras are cool cars. It was a privilege. normal common people were not allowed to have such cars.The middle light of tatra 603 is turnable in the side you turn your steering wheel.
The red car in the "Extras" section with the door at the front - my mum used to have one of those Bubble Cars!. When you open the door, part of the steering column hinged out of the way. So it would be mum driving, one of us two kids in the front seat and one curled up on the rear shelf. Safety last!
Noisy and not very fast, but a car with character.
nice video. Had a nice afternoon? The green Volvo you liked so much is actually a DAF. When Volvo took over the passenger car from DAF, they further built the Dafodiel, as it was called. This was the only worldwide variomatic at the time. It is remarkable that a daf could drive backwards just as fast as forwards. Reverse races were held in the Netherlands. Keep make these videos👍
DAF reverse races are so fun to watch.
The Daf Daffodil was produced in 3 types (Type 30, 31 and 32) between 1961 and 1967.
11:25 the Peugeot 205 was so so popular in the UK. As someone who passed his driving test in 1992, a second hand 205 was about the coolest car you could realistically get! Actually I did pass my driving test in one (my instructor’s).
This one is the GTI, mighty 1.9L in the small package, it was seriously quick back in the day.
My mother used to drive a Mehari when she was young in the late 70's and theyre still a comman seen car in Ibiza and Palma Islands around Spain also they have a collectors car club in Spain :D
never thought you'd see a T603, 613 or even 700 in the US, that's a thing! You are a happy guy!
the green volvo is a DAF, they changed it to volvo after they took over the DAF Factory, funny thing is, that daf can go as fast backwards as forward..
Hi from Czech republic 👋👋 Tartas was president cars for many years in Czechoslovakia👍
Awesome tour, thank you very much 👍🏻
14:45 this is the wolkswagen XL1, for a long time it was the best ever mpg vehicule in the world ( not sure if it still is ) powered by a hybrid twin cylinder diesel, lots of carbon fiber elements and a lot of work on the aerodinamic, I think it was sold new around 150.000€
Fantastic museum 🤩
Really odd vehicles in that museum! That's awesome. I like that people have saved and displayed these cars. I have never seen any of those anywhere
I wish to be here with you, and be able to tell you more about these european cars
3:06 I have never seen Tatra 700 in my life and I am from Czechia, they made only 62 of them
Somes of them looks so futuristics like we saw in old cartoons.
So many cool cars! I love those crazy futuristic cars! It's like the friggin Jetsons!
Tatra made in Czech Republic. today there are only a few pieces. which drives. they are real rarities
If you love anything automotive, you should check out the Britten motorcycle that was broke some motorcycle speed records and designed and built by a Kiwi in his garage by John Britten R.I.P.
5:53 Wiking from (West-) Germany has/had a neat little 1/87th scale plastic model of the Tatra T-87 in its range.
In Tennessee they have good taste in music and cars
Grandpa is a hero! 🙂
Too bad the Volvo P1800 wasn't there in the museum. Manufactured and marketed by Volvo between 1961 and 1973. One of my favourite car, too beautiful... :-)
you are right! The P1800 is the most beautiful car of its time.
@@martinhanisch5233 P1800 indeed the beautiful car of its time, but there's also other beautiful cars from that era.
That was fun, I am amazed at some of the funcky designs, I have never seen those cars everr. great work Ian
Great video. As a Czech, I got to know a lot of historic European cars. Paradoxically, I was most surprised by the Tatra 49.( 18:33 ) From the shape of the bonnet, it was immediately clear to me that it was a Tatra, but I didn't know the version with 3 wheels.
Save money and come to Kopřivnice museum ✌️ 🎉 hello from czech republik
Who the F are you man?? I am a 53 year old 1st generation European Australian white man in Australia.
I just found your site 1 week ago and am addicted.
Your interest and fascination in our Indigenous is so beautiful.
The fact you wear a shirt with Aboriginal print in this video is awesome.
You are more Aussie than most of us.
Walawaani
It's interesting that many of those Tatras have German licence plates on them.
To be honest, as a 35yo German, I've never seen a Tatra myself.
dude if you love trucks and tatras... you would love playing "snowrunner" the game. theres all sorts of tatras and other trucks from all over the world. super addictive game
I actually learned how to drive in one of those pegeout!😄 my dad had one back in the day. That little thing was a beast.
"Look at this little Fiat" Yay, my favourite Fiat the Panda was in the picture! Did you know it's featured in the Netflix series Love Death & Robots season 1 episode "Three Robots". I do miss a Simca 1000, Lancia Delta and the Mercedes/Daimler Benz L319 (this one's for truck lovers) in the collection, but you can't have everything, just glad the Panda is there.
That Mehari prototype was actually altered for production and consumer use to have ridges in the plating to give it more stability the prototype was made out of flat sheet metal because that was the design, but it didn't hold up and made too much noise when driving.
And also the external AC unit was an American invention, sorry for going car nuts😅
It's a Tatra 6x6 815, I have a plastic one at home when I was little, so I used to transport sand on it, Dad has two world patents for a tubular frame, it's still used today, and before that an air-cooled diesel was used, it had Euro 5 emissions, it's expensive in Europe diesel A Tatra needs difficult terrain to be economically efficient, the bigger off-road legend is the Praga v3s 6x6, it is lighter so it fits in the mud, it is still used today but as a forest pick-up or well drilling rig, production started in the 1950s, but the cars were military for the cold war and on the roof they have a hatch for a machine gun, the car is very slow 40 miles per hour, it is also used for railway repairs, and the engine is a military multi-fuel diesel, in case of war, gasoline with motor oil or gasoline and diesel could be used 1: 1
The Dymaxion was designed by Buckminster Fuller, best known for geodesic domes.
He also designed a Dymaxion Dwelling Machine. Or a house from outer space, if you didn't know better. Plenty of decent and intriguing images online.
I love these "Jetson" cars 😀😀😀
Thanks so much for loading these videos. They let car guys like me see stuff on the other side of the world I'd never see otherwise.
They're also called rear-hinged doors... because that's what they are.
When these cars still had two-stroke engines, they were called Auto Union. With the four-stroke engine from Mercedes, it was renamed Audi. After that, Audi was sold to Volkswagen. Then Audi supported Volkswagen with the concept for the VW Golf.
thanks for this video, this is an awesome museum! If I'm ever in America I should visit this!
I was super impressed! Check it out forsure if you are ever near Nashville, Tennessee
Wow. Exciting. Cool cars everywhere.❤
Looks like a nice motor museum. Love the time when car makers had their own identity and character, not afraid to be bold. There's a fun video called happy journey featuring a Tatra 603 you might enjoy.
I don't think it's the manufacturers that afraid to be bold anymore, it might be regulations that forced manufacturers to be bold.
That's also to the credit of the museum, it clearly has a preference for those who rethink the car, start from scratch again and come up with something completely different.
@@automation7295 No, it's the mainly the marketeers and the bean counters. Regulations don't help but there is also little uncharted territory left. We know a V8 behind the rear axle has handling issues now, the car is nearing perfection so they start to look more alike. Perfection is boring of course.
@@DenUitvreter If perfection is boring, then it can also imply that older cars are boring. No car is perfect technically speaking.
Regulations did affect car design, that's also why cars aren't allowed to have fins, low and wedge-shape bonnets, pop-up headlights, etc. All cars nowadays must have crumple zones, raised bonnets, fixed headlights (no pop-up headlights), etc, due to pedestrians safety laws.
That's also way Lotus Esprit and Chevrolet Corvette C5 were the last cars to feature pop-up headlights, both creased production in 2004.
@@DenUitvreter It's basically the pedestrians' faults that car designs are boring compared to older cars.
You should visit Europe, especialy Stuttgart, Germany. There are four Car/Technical museums close each other. Sinsheim Technical, Speyer, Mercedes museum and Porsche museum.
G'day Ian & Family hope you are all well.
What a fantastic museum some fantastic cars🚗.
Sending you much cheer & love from Down Under 🇦🇺🐨🦘❤️.❤️🇺🇸 🦅❤️🇲🇽🥰.
It's funny to see, how excited you are, while 4 of those trucks are rusting at my uncle's backyard...
I have interesting fact about tatra if you are interested. So tatra is world third oldest car manufacturer. Tatras 77/87(as seen on video) were designed by Hans Ledwinka. As matter of fact Ferdinand Porshe knew Hans Ledwinka and copied lot of designes from that car and aplied it to VW Beatle and first Porshe 356(911 predecesor). When WWII ended Hans Ledwinka sued Porshe for that and won 1 milion marks. There is also a myth that more ss officers were killed while driving tatra 77/87 (thay did not expect oversteering) like by czechoslovakian army. Also in Madmax film, most big trucks are tatra trucks. And there is also video that some US fire departmenst are using tatra trucks during wildland fires.
The Volvo 66 is interesting. It started out as a DAF car, a Dutch truck and car manufacturer (they still make trucks), but the cars weren't a big success. So they sold it to Volvo. Volvo put in a Renault engine. My grandfather was a Renault mechanic and in his free time he serviced some cars (only Renaults but because of the Renault engine he had some customers with the small Volvo's). It used the variomatic transmission (still in use by some manufacturers like Toyota as the CVT transmission).
These cars could drive the same speed going forward as backward. In the 80's we had a program on tv where people would race these cars backward.
Could you give a link to these reverse races - sounds hilarious and very cool.
I think the Volvo 360 GLT, with rear transaxle, was also a DAF.
An Australian adventurer, who made films, stubbled upon a little DAF in Africa with the variomatic transmission, and fell in love with it.
Was easy to repair and the transmission's action was easy to understand with basically cones and bands.
On the leaflet DAF was indicated as the manufacturer.
@@adrianmclean9195 the Volvo 340/360 were developped as DAF 77, but only produced as Volvo. Production was at Born, Netherlands
Okay, cool, thankyou - it was Australia's first " small " Volvo - we had only the 240 series and the 740/60 series up until then. They used them to rally here and the motoring journalists rated them very highly. Unfortunately we never got the awesome coupe with the pop up headlights and the grille under the bumper - 480 ?
They looked really good and different.
We eventually got the C30 coupe.
I do like the Polestars.
The Citroen DS is such an impressive car now, back then it could have been alien tech. Watch the Jay leno garage episode on the car. 1 car I didn't see was a Volvo p1800, there are still a few on the road, but are now rare and expensive, gorgeous though. As a teenager I really wanted a 205GTI the 1600 was good the 1900 was mental!
Fantastic video Ian 👏 I just love those old Tatras. The whole car show you featured in Nashville was brilliant, thank you. I'd love to walk around such a car show. Really appreciate the effort you and for family put into making these stunning videos. Well done Ian, keep up the great work 👍💯 MMonk 🇦🇺
Tatra had some seriour potential back in the day what comes to sports cars in 30's
2:50 Tatra 613 was produced exclusively for the government in Czechoslovakia. And it was exported only to the friendly countries of RVHP.
11:24 A Peugeot 205 GTI. This is the only Peugeot i would love to own sometime in my life. The car is famous and got a good history.
11:41 Thats the old Fiat Panda a very unique car! It was the first car from my mom! Sadly i was only as a young kid in this car it was a black one. I got my driver license in 2022 so sad this Fiat Panda from my mom doesnt exist anymore :(
And the Peugeot is an affordable classic
As a European, I fully approve of this very tasteful collection. How some of those cars were selected/acquired/got there is puzzling.
Lovely colours too. Are you watching this grey grey grey paint makers?
@@etherealbolweevil6268 in this day and age I consider any car that is not grey (white/black) a bold choice made by a tasteful person.
Tatar and Matra are both very cool. Looks like an amazing museum, I wish I could go!