"The word on the intermediate throttle", or "The unpredictable course of events"
09/25/2017
Many things begin, albeit completely unconsciously, much earlier than you might think. zwischengas.com has now been online for 2500 days, almost seven years. Thousands of hours of work have gone into this project, but we are still fully behind our idea and what we have achieved.
It all actually started back in 1978/79, when there wasn't even an Internet and few people were even thinking about something like this.
Bruno and I went to grammar school together in Sarnen. He was the better student than me right from the start, but even then we only had one thing on our minds and another. School was really only ever a minor matter, the main thing was the girls and, above all, the cars. Back then, it was less about historic cars and more about the latest models. Porsche, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo. Our fathers had to buy rust-prone sports saloons from Alfa Romeo under pressure from their sons. The Alfasud 1.5 ti was the measure of all things back then. Together we visited the Ferrari meetings in Stans or the FNA (Friends of Nostalgic Cars) in Alpnach-Dorf with our mopeds. We became friends and have remained so to this day.
The idea of writing test reports about cars was born out of pure necessity. Having just got our driving license, we naturally wanted to go to the Geneva Motor Show and needed a car to do so.
Our fathers' cars were not available, so I got a car from the dealer with the idea of a test report in the "Obwaldner Zeitung", which I had a close relationship with thanks to my father. Test reports on the Fiat Ritmo, the Renault 18 and the Mitsubishi Galant Turbo were the result.
After the fifth year of grammar school, I left for Vienna for five years, where I attended a technical college for photography, while Bruno began his studies as a computer science engineer. We only saw each other a few times, but this didn't diminish our friendship. He even visited me twice in Vienna, once with his Fantic 125 cc on the way to Budapest, another time with the dark blue Alfasud Ti, when I already owned an Alfasud Sprint Veloce.
After our apprenticeships, our professional lives began, which meant we only had a few dinners together each year. However, the cars became faster and sometimes more expensive, and from time to time we even met up at classic car events.
In the meantime, the Internet had also been born and we had dedicated ourselves to historic vehicles. And suddenly the idea of our own Internet platform for historic cars came up at the Seerstaurant in Zug. Little more than a year passed between the idea and going online. The result became visible to pilot users on November 22, 2010, and from December 2010 we were live for everyone, the rest is (a 2500-day) history ...
