A look back at two years of Zwischengas - or the somewhat different automobile
11/20/2012
As a racing enthusiast with a focus on "prototypes", my heart beats particularly strongly when my eyes catch sight of a vehicle that is guaranteed not to be road-legal, adorned with sponsor stickers and equipped with vanishingly low ground clearance.
Photos are my passion and accordingly I love any pictures of racing events in which legendary racing cars are skillfully photographed. But seeing and hearing them live, or even experiencing them as a passenger, is of course the ultimate feeling: a vehicle is only really fun when it accelerates quickly, has a lot of grip in the bends and makes a really loud noise!
... at least that was my opinion during the early days at Zwischengas...
And then came the day when this attitude changed drastically and unexpectedly: I had to take a portrait of a Messerschmitt KR 200 together with Bruno von Rotz. It all started with the sight of the extremely rustic-looking vehicle with the strange glass dome.
Should we get in there? Only three wheels? My initial doubts were quickly dispelled, and in no time at all I felt an attraction and curiosity that I had never experienced before when looking at a classic car. It seemed to me as if I could suddenly see a soul in this cute, well-behaved tricycle in a red dress.
We then set about getting in: The careful opening of the roof was like the beginning of a ceremony: the roof clicked into place slightly wobbly in its final position, and with agile body movements I squeezed myself into the back seat ... A short moment later, Bruno sat in front of me, turned the ignition key and the single-cylinder two-stroke engine with just under 200 cm3 began to tell its story: it bubbled and rattled, gently and somehow cutely. The all-round view during the ride surpassed all previous impressions, an experience that is almost impossible to describe.
One thing has been clear to me ever since: impressive moments and memories for life can not only be collected in fast sports cars, no, it is often the small, characterful micro-vehicles that manage to convey their unique charm during an actually unspectacular ride.
