A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
The 1934 Tatra T77 being offered through RM Sotheby’s at Amelia Island on March 3.
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Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. -
A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. This car is the ninth production chassis made. Its original owner was Count Jaromír Egon Czernin-Morzin, who took it on a tour of the Italian Alps in 1935 and owned it only one year. While its intermediate provenance is unknown, it is thought to have been driven until the mid-1970s, after which it was parked in a barn in Slovakia.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. Tatras are an automotive outlier and an acquired taste, but connoisseurs of design find few cars are as engaging and as historically significant as those made by the Czechoslovakian marque.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. The car carries an air-cooled, 3.0-liter V-8 engine that makes 60 hp.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. Only 106 examples of the Tatra T77 were produced from 1934 to 1936.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. International Auto Restoration, of Oak Lawn, Ill., performed the decade-long project of making this example of the model pristine.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. The four-door sedan comprises a coach-built body on a pressed box-section steel chassis, and is distinguished by a prominent tail fin extending from the nape of the rear window to the base of the rear bumper.
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A Gallery of the 1934 Tatra T77 Heading to the RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Auction
Image Credit: Corey Escobar, courtesy of RM Sotheby's. This exceptionally restored Tatra T77 is one of very few remaining and certainly one of just a handful to come to market in contemporary times.