[DeTomaso] A really cool present - the Tjaarda Bugatti proposal is in my hands!

[Bill Lewis]

Charles, congrats!!!  Life is good.  And, the blue car is beautiful!    --Bill Lewis





> From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:47:16 +0100
> Subject: [DeTomaso] A really cool present - the Tjaarda Bugatti proposal is	in my hands!
> 
> Hi all
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> Last weekend I stopped by the house of a friend of mine, David Rodriguez. 
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> David is an extremely talented artist who uses his gift only in his spare
> time as a hobby (he earns his living as an engineer). He enjoys tracking
> down and drawing prototype cars, limited production cars, or cars that never
> even saw the light of day but only existed on paper or in the mind of some
> designer. 
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> There is an article written by David in the latest POCA profiles, and one of
> his drawings of what was to be the new Vallalunga, had Alejandro held on a
> little longer (and a quite attractive car, imo). 
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> 
> Anyway, David wrote to Tom Tjaarda and they have exchanged several e-mails
> over the past few years. When the Bugatti design popped up on the PIBB a few
> weeks ago, I sent a picture to David and he told me the following:-snip-
> 
> Charlie, that's my own illustration of Tjaarda's Bugatti EB110 proposal.
> 
> You surely remember there was a Bugatti re-incarnation in Italy which lasted
> from 1987 to 1996.
> 
> It was a one man's dream; Romano Artioli, Suzuki importer for Italy and
> ex-Ferrari dealer in Germany -he lost Ferrari's favour once he began his new
> venture. Ferrari too would pressure banks around not to loan money to
> Bugatti, while also pressing specialists suppliers not to work for Bugatti
> if they still wanted to be favoured by them-.
> 
> Artioli hired Gandini for designing the car; first car was very
> dissapointing and a second design was requested to Gandini again, but a
> battle for some details provoked that Gandini left the project, which was
> internally re-styled at Campogalliano -where Bugatti was based-.
> 
> But Artioli was still dissatisfied, although now he was urged to go on with
> the car the way it was if he wanted something to unveil in Paris for the
> 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti's birth. So he asked Tom Tjaarda to
> suggest a new nose for the car. Tjaarda made a number or proposals for
> restyling the nose, and during one of his visits to Campogalliano, Artioli
> asked him to doodle some complete shapes of what his ideas for a Bugatti
> were. Those sketches and doodles all were left at Campogalliano. In 2006 I
> asked Tjaarda to try to remember and recreate what he had done for Bugatti.
> In 2008 I finally had from him 5 A3 format drawings of Bugatti shapes which
> recreated those he had done many years back. And so I made the corresponding
> illustraton, which is in the Tjaarda publicity image you sent me yesterday."
> -eos
> 
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> 
> Anyway, after my visit David insisted that I leave with one of the sketches
> Tom made. I scanned it, although it was too large to fit on the scanner bed,
> so I had to scan it in halves:
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=26806
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=26809
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> David's drawing which he sent to Tom may be found here:
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=26812
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> All this to say that I'm pretty psyched to have an original Tjaarda drawing,
> which will now be framed and hung somewhere on the DeTomaso Wall. 
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> Cheers!
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> 
> Charles McCall
> 
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> 
> "Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe"
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