I get more questions about the car than an other "work" in the museum, so I did some digging for information about the car. So here is what I know it was designd 1936 and put in to production through to 1950 and around 3,000 where made. It has a reare mounted air cooled V8 engine with the gas cap under the hood in the front. The Czechoslovakian made car was popular with the German Officers in WWII but Hitler banned it after two many officers where killed driving it.
Rumor has it that the battery and stater motor have been removed from the car at the MIA but it came with a crank start along with many other goodies like extra spark pugs and an oil can.
Take a look a what Jay Leno has to say about his.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z9132/Tatra-T87.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T87
