Constructed on the chassis of a seven-seater limousine, the one-and-only ZIS 101A Sport was built in 1939. Prior to its release, there was the ZIS 101 (with a 5.8 litre straight-8 engine capable of a top speed of 115 km/h) and the ZIS 101A (with an improved engine that reached 130 km/h). The two-seat ZIS 101A Sport was designed by Valentin Nikolaevich Rostkov with a boosted version of the engine from the 101A. Although it was personally approved by Stalin to honour the 20th anniversary of the Komsomol (the youth division of the Communist Party), the car was deemed useless and promptly forgotten after the celebration.
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