One for Mr Z, Which film

[nopanic - neil]

All wrong so far.

The unimog is closest, but its not.

mmmm,

another hint -  one of the oldest vehicle makers in the world?? (in the top 10)

Just checked something Skoda is near?

[Nordic]

Bloody hell this is hard!

Tatra maybe, one of the oldest, used to make cars, near Skoda but the rest does not fit?

[Jules G]

Star? Built in Poland

[SL]

OK I am thinking along the lines of a famous film probably watched several times by all petrol heads. Not the star rather the mugged party

I cannot find the exact model at the moment though I am trawling the tinternet thingy

[nopanic - neil]

The answer – Tatra 805

Bloody hell this is hard!

Tatra maybe, one of the oldest, used to make cars, near Skoda but the rest does not fit?

Yes is does.

The engineers Miroslav Zikmund (born 1919) and Jiří Hanzelka (1920-2003) undertook two long-term travel expeditions.  During the first one, between 1947 and 1950, driving a mass-produced Czechoslovak passenger car Tatra 87, they traveled through Africa and South and Central America.  They undertook the second expedition between 1959 and 1964, using two prototypes off-road vehicles Tatra 805, and they visited some states of the Near East, monsoon Asia, Indonesia and Japanese Islands, and most of then-Soviet Asia.

OK some explanations of my statements made.

Tatra is the third oldest car maker in the world after Daimler Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot.

Tatra specialised in air cooled engines and all wheel drive trucks (4x4, 6x6, 8x8, 10x10, 12x12) were very popular with the army and also in the Paris Dakar rally


Come on Paddy, you have your HGV liecence, imagine driving this (I want to!)

Between 1921 and 1937, Hans Ledwinka was the chief design engineer again at the Tatra company (originally Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau) in Kopřivnice (Nesselsdorf), then in Czechoslovakia, now in Czech Republic. Here, Ledwinka invented the frameless central tubular chassis (so-called "backbone chassis") with swing axles, fully independent suspension and rear-mounted air-cooled flat engine. Other major contribution of Ledwinka to automobile design is the development of car body streamlining and its introduction into mass production

Volkswagen controversy
In June 1934, Ferdinand Porsche received a contract from Hitler to build three prototypes from designs Porsche already had, such as Porsche's 1931 Type 12 car. The three cars were completed in winter 1936. However, the original car designs follow from the innovative ideas of Hans Ledwinka,
Ledwinka's concepts were copied by Ferdinand Porsche, who knew Ledwinka personally and exchanged ideas with him. Tatra sued Volkswagen about the breaches of the similarities in the Volkswagen design which has been virtually copying Tatra T97. The lawsuit vanished as the Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 (one way of getting rid of a lawsuit), and Hitler ordered the production of Tatra T97 to be halted. Only 500 cars were produced.
Porsche's successors later had to acknowledge the influence of Ledwinka's Tatra models on the Porsche-designed Kdf-Wagen of 1938 (later known as the VW Beetle), and a new post-war lawsuit resulted in a DM3,000,000 settlement paid by Volkswagen to Ringhoffer-Tatra.
So the link was VW Beetle.

The car people would desire for is (well you have to say for a 30’s car it looks good) is the T87


And the tatraplan (as seen in adverts)



Links
http://www.tatra.cz/en/spodek_en.asp
http://www.tatraworld.nl/

Any more questions please do not hesitate to ask...................................... Mr Google  


Youtube - good film, but whats the poilce car/van (and No I do not know)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cP_7WyAqRps

and another one, guess who owns this one,
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/Tatra_shell.shtml

[nopanic - neil]

What no disagrement about the junk I said about the Tatra

[Nordic]

Its all fine by me, but for ww2 tatra would be a major player now.

Get back down your cellar for another!

[nopanic - neil]

Its all fine by me, but for ww2 tatra would be a major player now.

Get back down your cellar for another!

Before i go down the cellar, and boy it's dark down there.

I agree about Tatra would have been a major player, but they did get their own back

After the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, Tatras continued in production, largely because Germans liked the cars. Liked them too well, in fact; many German officers met their deaths when pushing heavy, rear-engined Tatras faster around corners than they could handle. In fact, the Tatra became known as the 'Czech Secret Weapon' for the scores of officers who died behind the wheel; at one point, it seems, official orders had to be issued forbidding German officers from driving Tatras.

[nopanic - neil]

Back form the cellar, dark and too many spiders down there so was quick

Whats the motor?

[Truck]

After Tatra, it should be a Skoda Felicia, but its too ugly, so my guess is a Lancia Aurelia or something else I can't spell

[nopanic - neil]

After Tatra, it should be a Skoda Felicia, but its too ugly, so my guess is a Lancia Aurelia or something else I can't spell

No its not, but I know you can spell this my old son.

Keep looking

Just been cheeking, i did not know this till now. Has been raced by some very famous racing drivers.

In fact this car manufacture has raced at Le mans.

[nopanic - neil]

looks like a Peugeot to me

No - sorry

keep trying - head east

This manufacture still exists today, making cars and trucks. 

[Nordic]

Could it be a 1964 datsun Fairlady?

[nopanic - neil]

Oh yes - Correct  (5 years out - but hell whos counting)- that man wins a cigar (only to smoke outside)

The Car a 1600/2000 Datsun

for their racing history look at following site - ( http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/usindex.htm )
even raced at Road Atlanta

[nopanic - neil]

OK, on to the next one.

As it's winter and I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire (hope it's a fire, otherwise my house in on fire!). Here's one to keep you warm.

Who can tell me more, not sure but don't think it raced at Le Mans.