Tatra 813

The Tatra T813 was a truck produced in Czechoslovakia by the Tatra company from 1967 to 1982. Its basic representative was the military 8x8 Kolos, which could pull trailers up to a total weight of 100 tons, and Tatra also built civilian 6x6 and 4x4 versions. A prototype made of Tatra 138 parts was built in 1960 with permanent four wheel drive, and the concept grew into the modular 813 chassis around a tubular backbone, with a cab-over-engine layout, wide super-single tires and central tire inflation. The naturally aspirated T-930 V12 was made by adding four cylinders to the 75 degree V8 of the Tatra 138, and the military version could run on diesel, petrol and kerosene. After fifteen years, 11,751 vehicles had been built in all modifications and many were exported to the USSR, East Germany, Romania and India. The Tatra T815 succeeded it.