{"id":17187,"date":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/koda-superb-ohv-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:42:48","slug":"koda-superb-ohv-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/koda-superb-ohv-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160koda Superb OHV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The museum workshop of the \u0160koda Museum at the factory headquarters in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav\/Czech Republic again and again puts sensational vintage and classic cars from the extensive brand history back on their own four wheels. After an extensive and elaborate restoration over the last three years, a \u0160koda Superb OHV from 1948 has now been completed. Fans of the brand know this model name to this day. It was first introduced in the 1930s as a name for a luxurious and representative sedan. On February 22, 1934, exactly 85 years ago, the very first \u0160koda 640 Superb left the production line. It had a central tube frame, hydraulic brakes, independent suspension all around and one feature, that all early Superb models should receive: An inline six-cylinder engine under the hood. This delivered 40.5 kW\/55 hp from its 2.5 liters of displacement. Over the modelyears this performance continued to increase, while the design was refined and the standard equipment expanded. Around 600 vehicles with side-controlled engines had been produced until 1938, followed by the introduction of an advanced engine with overhead valves hanging in the cylinder head in the Superb 3000 OHV.

This change in addition to a capacity increase up to three liters also brought a performance increase to 63 kW\/85 hp. Due to the upcoming World War 2, the production had to be stopped in 1939 after only 113 vehicles of this type had been built. One of them, finished in black paint and with high-quality equipment, is part of \u0160kodas classic car fleet for many years and has been seen at many different vintage and classic car events all over Europe. Similarly, the \u0160koda Museum also owns the only surviving example of the Superb 4000 with a V8 engine, only built in 1940. After the war, the production of the Superb OHV restarted in slightly modified form. However, the plant in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav only produced own bodies for eleven of the 158 rolling chassis produced between 1946 and 1949. 103 vehicles got coachbuilt bodies by the body shop Uhlik from Prague or the body show Sodomka in Vyosk\u00e9 M\u00fdto. The remaining 44 rolling chassis were temporarily covered and drove under own power to the \u0160koda factory in Kvasiny, about 120 kilometers away. There they got new bodies with fully integrated headlights in the front fenders and various shiny aluminium trim parts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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