Big show. Big cars. Perhaps I am alone in this – though I seriously doubt it – but that makes me rapidly head off in search of the petite, little beauties tucked away, lost in the dazzling chrome reflections of the pre-war leviathans.
In just the same way as too much perfection makes me seek out the shabby, or an overdose of exotica makes me snub it in favour of the mundane and ordinary.
Maybe it is some weird manifestation of my height complex. Perhaps I am just an unusually obstreperous character.
Either way, the impressive, nay overpowering, showing of big 'uns at Retro Classics Stuttgart prompted me to zoom in on the dainty for the day.
I'll be blogging on the star cars and biggest rarities later, but for now here, in reverse order, are my top five tiddlers.
5. Puma GT 1600
Delighted to spot this in the classic parking area outside the show today. I am sure you know all about them, but Pumas were Brazilian-built VW-based sports cars that had an initial production from the mid-'60s to the mid-'90s and then started being built again about five years ago. Coming in convertible of coupé form, they were all glassfibre two-doors initially based on the DKW-Malzoni and adopting VW power and running gear when the German company took over DKW in the late 1960s.
4. Fiat OSCA