{"id":46167,"date":"2020-09-10T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=46167"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:33:53","slug":"50-years-of-skoda-110-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-skoda-110-r\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of \u0160koda 110 R"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fact that there were sporty cars on the other side of the Iron Curtain has spread to Western Europe in the meantime. However, most readers probably think more of the Melkus from the GDR than of vehicles from \u0160koda from Czechoslovakia. Wrongly so, as the 110 R and the derivatives based on it have proven in the long term. This was preceded in 1964 by the market launch of the 1000 MB mid-range sedan, whose self-supporting body carried the engine in the rear. As demand for this model was constantly hight, \u0160koda phased out all other model series, including the sporty Felicia, which was very popular in Western Europe. Nevertheless, enough customers continued to ask for sportier cars, which, although only niche products, were suitable both for advertising and as basic vehicles for racing. Thus, when developing the 1000 MB successor 100 L and 110 L from 1966, the team in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav also set about creating a sporty coup\u00e9 version. This was to be known by the abbreviation 110 R, but it soon received the Czech nickname ‘Erko’. The prototypes, which were produced in the branch factory in Kvasiny, were given the project code \u0160 718 K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test drives on GDR Autobahns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Instead of simply shortening the sedan body by two doors and possibly creating a more attractive rear end, \u0160koda used only the platform for the 110 R, but had a separate body with a flatter windshield and a 40 millimeter lower roof drawn for it. The doors were considerably wider and had frameless windows. In March 1968, the first prototype went into road testing. Among other things, the tours led to the well-developed Autobahns of the GDR, where top speeds of up to 145 kph (90 mph) were recorded. It wasn’t until a year later that a second prototype was on its wheels, with double carburetors and an alternating current alternator instead of a dynamo as improvement measures. For the world premiere of the 110 R in 1970, \u0160koda invited a few selected journalists to the dormitory of the company’s own vocational school in Mlad\u00e1 Boleslav. From there, they went to the nearby Ho\u0161kovice airport for their first test drives. Inside, the coup\u00e9s offered space for four people, with headroom limited by the roof line at the rear, as well as 250 liters of luggage under the front hood and another 120 liters of luggage space behind the rear seats. In front of the front passengers was the dashboard with five round instruments, two large ones behind the two-spoke steering wheel and three smaller ones centrally.<\/p>\n\n\n

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