Following the Eastern European street furniture in an earlier post by our Kamil, here’s a newly Czech car doing daily service in Finland. Czechoslovakia was peacefully split into two countries on January 1st, 1993, and this car was first registered late in the year, so the odds are that the Skoda Forman here was built in the Czech Republic.
And the name, Forman, does puzzle me a little. Is it for man? Or is there a Milos Forman reference? Any way you see it, this elongated Favorit seems handy for any man hauling old Czech-language films by the VHS-load. Personally, I recommend Hoří, má panenko (The Firemen’s Ball).


The front end is just the same as any five-door Favorit, and I don’t think even the pickup versions were downgraded in this department. What you got was the 1.3-litre pushrod four dating back from the rear-engined days, and you got yourself some 54 horsepower for that. And the flying baseball bat on the nose.

This example here, tidy as it is, appears also to be fully loaded. OEM alloys, clearish blinkers, metallic paint, tinted windows, chrome exhaust tip, classy pinstriping – you name it.

That’s probably down to it being the too-fancy-to-fit-on-the-hatch FORMAN GLX PLUS Silver Line. The logotype on the striping is so wonderfully early ’90s I love it for that.
[Images: Copyright 2015 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]