UNKNOWN HISTORY: OCTAVIA CARS WERE MADE IN CHILE 50 YEARS AGO

It is exactly 50 years since Bohuslav Čtvrtečka was given a few weeks to learn Spanish and a plane ticket to Chile. He spent two years there teaching the locals, whose skills were then limited to rudimentary metalwork, to make the Czechoslovak carmaker’s bestselling product: the ŠKODA OCTAVIA ESTATE.