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The Superb nameplate has been used to designate the Czech carmaker’s top of the line vehicles for many decades. Despite years worth of absence – the name was officially reborn in 2001- the first Superb models date from before the start of the Second World War, when the 640 Superb was introduced.
Starting in 1946, having parted ways with being the largest arms manufacturer in Austria-Hungary for the first war and a supplier of tanks for the second, Skoda started once again making cars. And one of their first models was, again, the Superb.
Not many were made between 1946 and 1949, only 158, but each came with the special allure cars of that age have. It’s impossible to know what happened to the other 157, but this one here was recovered, restored and is now on display at the Skoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav.
The car was made in 1948 and served as a company car for a tourism authority in Karlovy Vary. It did so for 20 years before being decommissioned and sent to the Mladá Boleslav.
The car then spent more than half of century hidden from view as, despite wanting to restore it, Skoda lacked the needed parts to do so. Somehow, they stumbled upon what they were missing in 2017 and put the car back together.
“This Skoda Superb OHV was one of the first historical vehicles acquired by Skoda Museum in 1968. However, it came to us incomplete and without the original upholstery,” said in a statement the director of the museum, Andrea Frydlová.
“Over the past three years, our museum workshop team has painstakingly restored this unique vehicle to its original condition. It now completes our collection of older versions of the prestigious Superb model series at the museum.”
The carmaker did so because this year it celebrates the 85th anniversary of the Superb nameplate, and it will keep the car on the floor of the museum until this fall.
Not many were made between 1946 and 1949, only 158, but each came with the special allure cars of that age have. It’s impossible to know what happened to the other 157, but this one here was recovered, restored and is now on display at the Skoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav.
The car was made in 1948 and served as a company car for a tourism authority in Karlovy Vary. It did so for 20 years before being decommissioned and sent to the Mladá Boleslav.
The car then spent more than half of century hidden from view as, despite wanting to restore it, Skoda lacked the needed parts to do so. Somehow, they stumbled upon what they were missing in 2017 and put the car back together.
“This Skoda Superb OHV was one of the first historical vehicles acquired by Skoda Museum in 1968. However, it came to us incomplete and without the original upholstery,” said in a statement the director of the museum, Andrea Frydlová.
“Over the past three years, our museum workshop team has painstakingly restored this unique vehicle to its original condition. It now completes our collection of older versions of the prestigious Superb model series at the museum.”
The carmaker did so because this year it celebrates the 85th anniversary of the Superb nameplate, and it will keep the car on the floor of the museum until this fall.
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