Anyone fancy a V8... in a Czechoslovakian made Tatra T613?

[Sam993]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-Tatra-T613-3-3-5-L...

It looks pretty mint, if the mileage can be trusted it must have been a summer only car. Anyone on here know this car? I'm somewhat tempted...

[hyphen]

Interesting although wouldn't want it myself. How much are they worth? Owner seems an interesting bloke according to the shell/car under cover and bike in pics.

Didn't know it existed, so off to that thread it goes too
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Sam993]

In current market it can be worth anything but I wouldn't personally want to spend more than the current highest bid at 4k (fkkkk it's 6k now, i.e. 20 minutes later!). That said I'm guessing that the reserve is somewhere in the 10k range. I might be wrong.

[SimonTheSailor]

It would be rubbish though wouldn't it ?

[tog]

SimonTheSailor said:

It would be rubbish though wouldn't it ?

Probably not. I've not driven one like this, but as I've said in the smoker barge thread I briefly ran one of these as a daily driver, and they are surprisingly capable cars. Mine was a later 613-4, with fuel injection, 220bhp, a five-speed box and lower suspension, but it went and handled amazingly well. Rear-engined, but the engine is on top of the back axle with gearbox in front so it's technically a semi-mid-engine and the weight distribution is ok. Traction with that weight on the axle was excellent. Fuel-fired heaters (two!) mean you can leave them running to keep the car toasty when shopping in winter. Huge, if a bit flat, boot at the front. It is bigger than it looks too, think S-Class size. I had mine for about two years or so, daily driver for about 6 months.

If you're tempted get in touch with the Tatra Register UK who will know this car. There is also now a specialist working on these cars here in the UK I think (in Barry), and there is a good community keeping them going outside CZ. I needed brake discs for mine, and found some from a chap in Denmark, who then drove them to me while he was on holiday over here in the UK (in his daily driver 613-4 with the wife and kids), going miles out of his way to come to me in return for lunch and natter about cars.

[Mr Tidy]

I really don't know why, but I like this!

If nothing else you aren't going to see another one every time you go out in it!

[unsprung]

always fawned over its ancestors (also with air-cooled V8s)


1969 Tatra 603



pre-war Tatra 87 (with dorsal fin!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87

[Usget]

Absolutely fabulous. I really love this thing.

[Cupramax]

Sam993 said:

very much a Czech copy of a Renault 25/30 apart from the engine location obviously...

[tog]

Cupramax said:

very much a Czech copy of a Renault 25/30 apart from the engine location obviously...

Apart from the flying buttresses, and it's a saloon not a hatchback. I think the similarity above is a quirk of the camera angle. Both came out in 1975 so were contemporaries.

The 613 was originally styled by Vignale.



There was quite a pretty coupé too, but only one prototype built.

[Sam993]

Cupramax said:

very much a Czech copy of a Renault 25/30 apart from the engine location obviously...

This is a communist (licensed) copy of Renault, Dacia 2000.