1949' Tatra Tatra T-87

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1949 Tatra T-87 Very Rare

Manufacturer
Tatra

Production

1936–1950
3,056 produced


Mileage:1,191

Trans:4 Speed

Engine:V8

Interior:Leather

Color:Silver

Drive Train:RWD

$298,500

- This 1949 Tatra T-87 is as unusual a car that Motorcar Gallery has ever had in inventory.

- Tatra has a long and very storied history that includes building cars from the 1920s all the way to 1999.

- The company still builds trucks today.

- The T-87 was the flagship car from Czechoslovakia that today is known as the Czech Republic.

- It represented many firsts in automotive design including superior aerodynamics and fully independent suspension.

- In fact, one of the engineers/ designer was the same gentleman who helped design the original Flying Ship Hindenburg.

- The car is powered by a unique air-cooled Hemi V8 that is located behind the rear wheels.

- This original design was plagiarized by none other than Ferdinand Porsche who used it on the original VW.

- Today Tatra is still known as the only company to sue Porsche over patent infringement and win!

- This example has been fully restored to exacting standards by Ecorra who is a known Tatra specialists.

- Although extremely rare, there is a Tatra club and one of the owner/members is the one and only Jay Leno.

- There are also examples that draw large amount of attention at some very well known museums around the country.


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Specs and history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_87


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Tatra T87

1941 Tatra 87 49870 front.jpg

Overview


Manufacturer
Tatra

Production

1936–1950
3,056 produced[1]


Assembly
Kopřivnice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia

Designer

Hans Ledwinka
Erich Übelacker


Body and chassis

Class
Luxury car, 5-seater Sedan

Body style
limousine (Finned Fastback)

Layout
RR layout

Powertrain


Engine
2969 cc (3.0L) Tatra 87 V8[2]

Transmission
4-speed manual[1] (3 and 4 synchronized)

Dimensions

Wheelbase
2,850 mm (112.2 in)[3]

Length
4,740 mm (186.6 in)[4]

Width
1,670 mm (65.7 in)[4]

Height
1,500 mm (59.1 in)[4]

Curb weight
1,370 kg (3,020 lb)[3]

Chronology


Predecessor
Tatra 77a

Successor
Tatra 603


- The Tatra 87 was a car built by Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra. It was powered by a rear-mounted 3.0-litre air-cooled 90-degree overhead cam V8 engine that produced 85 horsepower and could drive the car at nearly 100 mph (160 km/h).

- It is ranked among the fastest production cars of its time. Competing cars in this class, however, used engines with almost twice the volume, and fuel consumption of 20 liters per 100 km (11.8 mpg). Thanks to aerodynamic shape the Tatra 87 had a consumption of just 12.5 litres per 100 km (18.8 mpg). After the war between 1950 and 1953 T87s were fitted with more modern 2.5-litre V8 T603 engines.[5]

The 87 was used by Hanzelka and Zikmund for their travel through Africa and Latin America from 1947 to 1950.[6]


Contents [hide]
1 Design
2 Examples on display
3 Notable owners
4 See also
5 References
6 External links


Design


- The Tatra 87 has a unique bodywork. Its streamlined shape was designed by Hans Ledwinka and Erich Übelacker, and was based on the Tatra 77, the first car designed for aerodynamic purposes.[1] The body design was based on proposals submitted by Paul Jaray of Hungarian descent, who designed the famous German Graf Zeppelin dirigibles.

- A fin in the sloping rear of the Tatra helps to divide the air pressure on both sides of the car, a technique used in later aircraft. Tatra T87 had a drag coefficient of 0.36 as tested in the VW tunnel in 1979 as well as reading of 0.244 for a 1:5 model tested in 1941.[7]


Art deco-styled dashboard in a 1947 T87
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 "suicide doors" (i.e. rear-hinged doors), whereas the rear doors open in an orthodox manner.



A 1947 Tatra 87 Saloon, showing the identifiable rear 'Sharks-fin' and lack of rear windows.
Many design elements of the Tatra 87, Tatra 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 1940s) was 25,000 SFr.[2] Price today is around $125,000.[8] A 1941 Tatra T87, owned and restored by Paul Greenstein and Dydia DeLyser of Los Angeles California, won a New York Times reader's poll of collector's cars in 2010, beating strong competition from 651 cars.[9]



- The entire rear segment of the Tatra 87 formed an engine cowling.
Examples on display[edit]
A T87 is on display in the United States at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The museum displays 13 Tatra, including a 613 ambulance.

- It was this car, used to pick up comedian Jay Leno from the airport, that prompted him to purchase one as well, and become an advocate for the brand.

- A 1948-built T87 is exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Notable owners


Tatra

Streamlined Tatras Tatra V570 1931, 1933
Tatra 77 1933-1938
Tatra 87 1936-1950
Tatra 97 1936-1939
Tatra 600 Tatraplan 1946-1952
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
Farouk I of Egypt - the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan
Josef Beran - Czech Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Prague
Edvard Beneš - a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia
Antonín Zápotocký, Klement Gottwald - communist leaders, presidents of Czechoslovakia after the 1948 coup d'état
Jay Leno - an American stand-up comedian and television host
Norman Foster - a British architect
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The Tatra 87 was praised by German officers in World War II for the superior speed and handling it offered for use on the Autobahn. The Nazi armaments and munitions minister Fritz Todt declared: "This 87 is the Autobahn car ..."[citation needed]




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