• Landmark of passenger car aerodynamics • Imported from Czechoslovakia into Germany and then to the UK in 1990 • Restored in the late 1990s • Numerous upgrades The name of Tatra is forever linked with that of Hans Ledwinka, one of the most original engineers ever to turn his attention to automobile design.

Tatra's chief engineer, Ledwinka began experimenting with the application of low-drag aerodynamics to passenger car design in the early 1930s in collaboration with his colleague Erich Übelacker and Zeppelin aerodynamicist, Paul Jaray.

In 1934 the first of Tatra's 'aerodynes' appeared; this was the T77, the world's first series-produced car designed with aerodynamic efficiency as the foremost consideration.

Tatra's advertising hailed it as 'the car of the future', and when compared with its contemporaries the T77 must have looked like it had come from another planet.

Just as advanced beneath its streamlined skin, the T77 featured Ledwinka's trademark, independently-suspended back...