Tatra 57

The Tatra 57 was a series of two door compact cars built by the Czechoslovak company Tatra, introduced in 1931 and popularly nicknamed Hadimrška. It carried on the Tatra backbone chassis, with the drive shaft running inside the central structural tube, and the same streamlined closed nose of the Type 11 and 12 before it. The original car had a 1,155 cc overhead valve flat four engine of 18 PS (13 kW), with a four seat saloon and two convertible bodies. The 57A of 1935 brought a conventional grille and 20 PS, and the 57B of 1938 enlarged the engine to 1,256 cc and 25 PS. From 1941 the 57K, a military four door convertible, was built for the German Wehrmacht, and 5,415 were made. Production of the 57K ended in 1947 and of the 57B in 1949, after which Tatra built no more compact cars.