{"id":75289,"date":"2021-07-20T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=75289"},"modified":"2021-07-27T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T06:15:14","slug":"tatra-613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/tatra-613\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatra 613"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Representative sedans of the 1970s are usually characterized by a body with a notchback and a comparatively large engine under the front hood. However, at that time there were still the communist states behind the Iron Curtain. There, as is well known, the subject of automobile development was treated a little differently. Either they were clearly behind the hated Western states (Trabant and Wartburg were simply obsolete at some point) or far ahead. The latter applied to Tatra from Czechoslovakia from the 1930s onward. The large sedans of this brand received an air-cooled V8 engine, which was installed in the rear behind the rear axle. The 77, 87, 97, 107, 600 Tatraplan and 603 model series were created using this design. They also were all characterized by a rounded, aerodynamic shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premiere without cameras<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From the end of the 1960s, in the heyday of the Cold War, development work began on a modern successor model to the 603. Although the communist Eastern states sealed themselves off from the West as much as possible at this time, Tatra looked outside the Iron Curtain for a designer. This was possible because the Czechs, under the then new head of state Alexander Dubcek, introduced reforms and freedom of travel starting in 1968. Vignale in Italy was finally the right choice. Due to the retained layout with an air-cooled V8 in the rear, the basic silhouette is very similar to its predecessor. However, the Italian design house deliberately provided a styling with corners and edges. Tatra chose 613 as the model name, and as early as April 1969, Vignale delivered two sedans and a coup\u00e9 to Kop\u0159ivnice for inspection. Four months later, Tatra presented the car for the first time to journalists, who had to hand in their cameras at the factory gate beforehand. All the innovations of the 613 were dictated to them in the notebook.<\/p>\n\n\n

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