If you want to see some real Czech Tatra super cars look up "MTX Tatra V", "Tatra Eccorra Supersport V8" and "Tatra T700"

- A real shame those cars were produced in such small numbers

yea really amazing project, again before fall of Iron curtain in the Europe.

respect

K.

i'd never seen one of these before, so get guesssing!

(or googling the nec show)

It's a ZAZ 968. A small communist Chevrolet Corvair.

Edited 24 March, 201313 yr by DeLorean_4

The ZAZ seems an interesting car with a little air cooled V4 out back. I am fascinated by cars of this era and have both of Andy Thompson's excellent books on Soviet and Eastern European cars. Another book to look out for (though out of print and expensive now) is Julian Nowill's East European Cars. He is a stockbroker based in Exeter, lovely bloke and completely nuts about Eastern European cars. His daily driver is a Lada with a Fiat twin cam in it and i know he goes looking for cars over there a lot His book has loads of great photos too and the writing is enthusiastic and witty. He made me burst out laughing when he said a Lada Riva engine is good for 8000 rpm but he would not recommend doing this on a regular basis if you value your con rods lol.

Here is the link: keep and eye out for ebay and bookfinder.com for sensibly priced copies that come up occasionally.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/European-Suttons-Photographic-History-Transport/dp/0750923695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364222854&sr=8-1

Edited 25 March, 201313 yr by Matt Bodycombe

I also own all 3 books.....had no idea the Julian Nowell one was worth that much!

@hawkeracing: Andy's Cars of Soviet Union is not out of print too and selling for high prices. Motoring books can be very good investments

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cars-Soviet-Union-Andrew-Thompson/dp/1844254836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364566555&sr=8-1

Oh yes! The problem is I love those books.....they are so me I couldn't sell them.

One of the last buses to have the real "Leyland bark" from the exhaust when accelerating. And I lived the right sort of distance from a stop each way, with a total of 10 of them each way per hour, back in the day.

just found this thread a mere five years after it started! Some great photos on here but it does seem on any forum the closet cranks are everywhere. No one admits to liking buses or trains until a picture arrives and someone out there knows all about it!. I own a Leyland O600 engine attatched to a Routemaster so I can get the Leyland thrash anytime I want, but I have to admit it sounds better from half a mile away than it does in the cab. Here in Southampton we had Atlanteans for 37 years and when waiting for a bus at 5am you could hear them long them before you could see them. Same as any English Electric diesel engine. I live about two miles from the nearest railway but their sound would carry for miles. I'm going to go away and reminisce now...

Were the Atlanteans the one with strange booted engine cover and Anglia style reverse tilt window? I never thoght the engines ever sounded anything other than a big Diesel. I remember going to the US as a kid and thinking the buses there (greyhound) sounded great but took me years to find out why: V6 Detroit Two Strokers with scavange blower!

Hawker i won't sell mine either!

Yeah, thats an Atlantean. It wasn't so much the actual sound, just the sheer volume. I don't think they could build them today, they'd break all sorts of noise regulations.

Lol I used to go to school and back in one as a kid and I don't remember them being THAT loud lol. I do remember them having a sort of open gate gear shift like a Ferrari though :)The other buses that Maidstone and District ran were Bristol so I believe. Anyway I can smell the diesel fumes and the felt seats now lol !

I don't remember the Atlantean being that loud inside either. Outside I remember them being louder and slower than the Alexander's body Leopard single-decker though.