{"id":29183,"date":"2018-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/trekka-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:07:19","slug":"trekka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/trekka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trekka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About 50 years ago the world suffered from Cold War. All the more astonishing are exports from countries behind the Iron Curtain to outside countries. But there have been quite a few, specially to get much needed currency.  Also \u0160koda sent their cars abroad and even had an official importer in New Zealand. Next to other models they got the Octavia as sedan and estate. But locally they needed a more rural, offroad car to drive on the countryside streets. \u0160koda hadn\u2019t got such a car in their model range back then, but with ideas from New Zealand they developed an own car for the other side of the world.

Designwise it looks a bit like a shrunken Land Rover. Clear edges and flat surfaces allow for a good allround visibility. Development of the ‘Trekka’ called offroad car had been done partially in New Zealand and partially in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav in Czechoslovakia at the headquarters of \u0160koda. It was styled by British designer George Taylor and Czech Josef Velebn\u00fd. Because of high import duties on new cars from abroad, many manufacturers sent partially build cars to New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s. In Otahuhu a company called Motor Industries started assembling \u0160kodas in 1961 and five years later also the Trekka was produced here. Its chassis was 19 centimeters higher than the base platform from the Octavia and also got a center locked differential at the rear axle \u2013 more wasn\u2019t necessary for the urban tracks of the New Zealand islands.<\/p>

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