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The Skoda 110 Super Sport was presented at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1972 as something really rather different from a brand best known at the time for humble, three-box saloon and estate cars.
Of course the company had some form, but the 1100 OHC was some 15 years prior at this point, and the 110 Super Sport was probably something nobody really saw coming.
Although they should have done, given that the car had six - SIX - headlights in a single, pop-up cluster that occupied almost the entire front end. The back went to a similar theme, with sixteen - sixTEEN - round lights at the rear, apparently intended to resemble the business end of a rocket. Yes, I like nominating rockets and rocket-related things...
Unusually, the 110 Super Sport wasn't actually based on an existing Skoda model. It was an entirely custom concept car, with a new chassis that sported an integrated roll hoop. That was for good reason too, as access to the interior of the two-seat car came by way of a huge, front-hinged canopy, while the engine cover at the back was similar but rear-hinged.
With its fibreglass body, the 110 Super Sport came in at just 900kg, which meant it didn't need a lot of power to get it going. The original show car had a mid-mounted, 1.1-litre, straight four good for 72hp, but a larger (by 40cc) unit from the Skoda 110L Rallye was fitted for testing. With 102hp and relatively slippery aerodynamics, it could run up to 130mph.
Skoda had intended to build the car as a production model, but conditions in the Eastern Bloc were not idea for such an idea - especially once the oil crisis hit in 1973. Only one prototype model was built.
However, that didn't survive for long either. After inexplicably appearing in the Czech time-travel film Zítra Vstanu a Oparim se Cajem (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea), it was chosen to appear as a blood-powered, vampire rally car in a second Czech film, Upir z Feratu (Ferat Vampire) in 1981. For this role it was redesigned with fixed headlights, an enormous rear wing, and a new, black paintjob. The car also sported regular tail lights from the Skoda 120 at points of the film.
Skoda retains the Super Sport in its new "Ferat Vampire RSR" design (although the tail lights have reverted to something similar to the original look) at its Skoda museum in Mlada Boleslav (which you can also vote for here), with the original white car all but lost as a result.
And a shot of it in the time-travelling Zítra Vstanu a Oparim se Cajem movie about Hitler:
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