Tatra Mountains 82

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Tatra 82 in 1935

The Tatra 82 was a heavy, six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle from the crew car Tatra 72 was developed and the Tatra factory in Kopřivnice 1935 brought out.

The vehicle had an air-cooled four-cylinder OHC - boxer engine with 2490 cc and 55 hp (40 kW). The car had three axles, the rear of which were both powered. Its transmission had eight forward gears and one reverse gear. The maximum achievable speed of the 3150 kg car was 65 km / h. The chassis consisted of tubes, had a front axle with transverse leaf springs and pendulum axles in the middle and in the rear, provided with longitudinal leaf springs.

There was only one open crew car as a structure. A total of 325 vehicles were produced in two years. The last copies had the V8 engine of the Tatra 87 and a total weight increased to 4000 kg.

In 1939 the model with a four-cylinder engine with various superstructures was offered for a short time as the Tatra 93 .

In 1940 the six-wheeler cars were discontinued without a successor.

Parallel to the Tatra 93 (T93), the Tatra 92 (T92) was built from 1937 to 1941 as the actual successor to the Tatra 82 . While the T93 was only operated via the rear axle, the T92 had all-wheel drive.

source

  • Schmarbeck, Wolfgang: Tatra - The History of the Tatra Automobile, Publishing House of the International Auto and Motorcycle Museum Germany, Bad Oeynhausen (1977)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatra Portal: T92