Model car meeting to celebrate the new Zwischengas annual magazine
The Bugatti EB 110 is a dream car. Find out how it drives in our new Zwischengas annual magazine . And as we happened to notice while editing our story on the super sports car from Campogalliano, each of the Zwischengas editors owns a corresponding 1/18th scale model from Bburago. That can't be a coincidence!
Whether dearly loved and played with over many carpeted kilometers, as by Paul Krüger, who received the model in 1996 at the tender age of two and a half during a vacation on Lake Iseo ("I've had it longer than I've had a brother"), or as a rescued specimen like the one owned by Bruno von Rotz - the EB 110 has obviously fascinated us all in particular.
For Martin Sigrist, it is one of those cars that he bought as a student to add to his collection as soon as it was released, which is why there are hardly any traces of use and the original box is still there - complete with price tag. Always short of money back then, he probably lost a whole week's worth of food in the canteen. Paul remembers how he made the corresponding engine noises in the game - which raises the question of what it might sound like in the future when young people play electric toy cars.
And Bruno von Rotz, around 30 years old when the real EB 110 was presented, may remember that the car was on his list, but that his focus at the time was on somewhat more affordable models such as an Alfa Romeo, BMW, Porsche or TVR - after all. A few years later, there was still an EB 110, this one from Bburago. As a present for his son, his father's eye was obviously always on the blue racing car in his offspring's hands. We hope that the boy has nevertheless been allowed to develop magnificently, because the car is still there - a little dusty, but in its entirety. Only one aerial was lost from the Bburago model before our editor-in-chief was able to "rescue" the miniature Bugatti onto a safe mantelpiece.
Sigrist reveals that he later kept the models he had collected during his student days (in the jargon "mint & boxed", i.e. unplayed and still in their original packaging) away from his daughter's sphere of influence. "At the time, that was an amazingly wide range for such a little rascal." His EB 110 is otherwise stored in a display case in his workshop - "as a background decoration for all sorts of odds and ends."
Models and toys awaken the imagination; in the real world, on the other hand, many things often seem so terribly utilitarian. Yet the joy of real cars, of our dream cars as we encounter them as adults, tells us that so much has not changed at all. Well, Bruno von Rotz would actually like a Bugatti EB 110 in 1/1, whereas the other two seem to have come to the realization that there are wonderful ways of meeting this desire with "sublimation", with an evasive action as the psychologist would say.
This is why we write about all those great cars that we can't put in our garage. Instead, we find them in our stories. This may work in exactly the same way for some of our readers: Instead of having to own the cars - which would require quite a bit of effort, sausage sandwiches instead of four-course meals and the like with the EB 110 - there are lots of them hot off the press in our annual magazine. The cars from BMW, Bugatti, the Daimler-Rapport Forté, Datsun, Ferrari, Fiat, Ford, Ghia, and-and-and-and enjoyed reading and looking at them in the form of our annual magazine have one thing in common with our three Bburago-Bugatti models: they are cheap to buy - the annual magazine is available for CHF 16.90 or from € 15.90 - cost neither tax nor insurance, require no maintenance and are guaranteed rust-free!
