Le magazine et marché mondial pour les passionnés de voitures classiques, par des passionnés.
Le magazine et marché mondial pour les passionnés de voitures classiques, par des passionnés.
Some people go a long way to show what their interests are. Rick Nicolass went from Auckland, New Zealand to talk with Pur Sang Argentina about importing their T35 replica's. Now you must know that the NZ government doesn't give you a walkover if you want to import a car like that. Very slowly Rick succeeds in making them believe that a replica of a twenties race car, though newly made, is something different than a new modern car. So Rick has a lot of spare time to fill with other ideas. One of those is a chair with a back shaped just like a T-35 radiator. He let it made by a local top craftsman and politely asked Volkswagen if that would be ok? (they own the label) "Nein!", was das Answer. So now Rick is selling the chairs with a Pur Sang label and for fanatics he knows where to get real Bugatti labels. The funny thing is that recent rumour tells that a leather bag maker bought the Bugatti label as well, many years back. Their rock solid domain name is the best proof of all, check Bugatti.com. Now what we understand from hear-say is that Bugatti leather Bags now is scaring the hell out of the Superbug producer with the not so elegant web address: www.bugatti-cars.de ... Not about the use of the name Bugatti, but about the use of the label Bugatti on other goods than cars... Food for lawyers!