Cars Made In The Eastern Bloc

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA- SEPTEMBER, 29 (RUSSIA OUT) A stuntman with LADA Estate car jumps into the Baltic Sea during the exercises of Russian Emercom Ministry units shown at the International congress Road Safety for the Safety of Life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September, 29, 2016. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) /

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English actor George Cole (1925-2015) pictured in character as Reg Dudgeon on a beach with a ‘cut and shut’ car made from the front of a Skoda 120, welded to the back end of a Rover P6, on location during filming of the BBC Television sitcom Comrade Dad in England in 1985. (Photo by Larry Ellis Collection/Getty Images) /

Skoda 120 (1976-1990)

The Czechslovakian produced Skoda 120 was durable and built for the unpredictable roads in the Eastern Bloc. Designed as a family car it was powered by a one-liter inline-four engine that produced 44 hp. The rear engine was paired to a four-speed manual transmission and it featured rear-wheel drive.

The car was sold in Western Europe as the Skoda Estelle and after a three-decade run the total sales were a shade over 3,000,000.

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