Start was a Czech automobile marque that originated from a company founded in Kukleny in 1919, when car producer Vojmir Vechet arrived from Nymburk and joined forces with Frantisek Petrasek, forming Petrasek a Vechet, a factory producing motor vehicles. The enterprise underwent several changes of name and structure over the following years, becoming Frantisek Petrasek a spol. in Hradec Kralove in 1922, and later Ing. Fr. Petrasek, tovarna automobilu "Start",…