HOBA was a marque of small three-wheeled vehicles built by František Honc of Bakov nad Jizerou, in Czechoslovakia. The name was formed from the first letters of Honc and Bakov. Honc had worked for about thirty years as a model maker at the AZNP car works in Mladá Boleslav. He built the vehicles as conversions of Velorex three-wheelers. Two reasons drove him. He enjoyed the work of a model maker,…