A perfect 1937 Tatra T87 sits in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne art museum. As my coworker Jason has made abundantly clear, this Czech-built car should be revered for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the ~85 HP air cooled engine that was way ahead of its time mounted in the back, and the three…

[Scanned from a period postcard, here’s the air-cooled V8-powered Tatra 603 and the MiG-15 jet fighter which was also license-built in Czechoslovakia (S-102 and S-103), standing in a field of excellence. Photo credit: Technické Muzeum Tatra.]