Cars in the pharmacy
03/21/2026
Pharmacies always attract attention with the imaginative design of their shop windows. Tablets and tubes are rarely attractive display items, so pharmacists come up with something to draw attention to a painkiller, for example (example from Zurich: Dolo Patch). The pharmacist's illustrated product is an "intensively warming pain patch for pain in muscles and joints, muscle tension and cramps".
So far so good, but what does this have to do with the model kits on display, which of course immediately caught my attention as I walked past?
I couldn't quite figure it out, except that you might injure yourself or even cramp up when assembling the plastic model cars.
My eyes naturally fell first on the large Lotus Esprit S1, a car that also appeals to me in 1:1 scale. The other packs are scaled-down versions of American cars. Spectacular here is the Pontiac Club de Mer, which I hardly had on my radar before.
This concept car by Harvey Earl is a Pontiac-based sports car, shown at the 1956 Motorama Show. A 1:4 scale model and a prototype were built at the time, which is said not to have survived. Later, a replica was built, which can be seen from time to time in the USA. The open-top sports car, also known as the XP-200, was powered by a V8 engine and attracted attention 70 years ago with some pioneering design details.
It's always interesting how you come across forgotten cars, in this case via the box at the top of the shop window.
