Start with what the Škoda 1100 OHC is: a 2-door roadster with 1.1 L I4, built from 1957 to 1960, at the height of the post-war boom. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Škoda 1100 OHC (type 968) is a two-seat sports car, derived from the Škoda 1101 "Tudor" and considered the successor to the Škoda Sport. It came out in 1957 and had a plastic or aluminium body. The water-cooled four-cylinder four-stroke engine had double overhead camshafts, a displacement of 1089 cc and a power output of 67.6 kW (92 hp).
As the car only weighed 550 kg (1,213 lb) the car could reach speeds of 190 kilometres per hour (118 mph). The body was of semi-monocoque construction with an additional frame of thin-walled tubes. Only four cars were built, two roadsters with a plastic body, and two coupes with an aluminium body.
The engineering
The engine is 1.1 L I4. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Škoda Auto line-up the Škoda 1100 OHC has a clear place: it replaced the Škoda Sport; it handed the line to the Škoda 1100 GT; the factory was Czechoslovakia. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Skyline, the Fiat 500, the Dodge Challenger. Its Škoda Auto stablemates include the HZS-1 and the Trekka.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Škoda 1100 OHC — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.