After the pressing time-table of my studies during the Academic semesters and my work, I took up another amateur hobby, car models. On my birthday, my brother was very generous to offer me and adjust the parts of one and only remote control buggy, but counting the hours it has taken us, it is as if I own ten. I am especially fond of these little cars. They need unique patience and care from the point of connecting up to the right control. Engine tuning, adjustment of measuring instruments, ignition timing, rudder adjustment, timing of valves, controlling device as well as brake-gas control, because it is not very clever to let it start out with a retained brake and then suddenly shoot in the air, nor is it wise to have no brake at all, and risk to lose it.

Driving these cars is not as easy as it may appear, since the only communication is the exhaust fumes, that is to say the greasing of the miniature engine, the sound of the engine itself, if it pulls well or ‘hesitates’, and generally the audio-visual information. The response of the model is rarely the same on each side. Sometimes the engine is cold, and this does not help to the best results. The wheels have a various ruin, or the battery is a rather flat and then begins the great risk as the braking distance becomes remarkably longer and if the worst comes to the worst, the buggy reacts late to its controls or even does not obey at all and goes on according to its last order. If that last order was full gas… it is better to run out of gas as soon as possible, before it runs over a wall, otherwise it is going to spend its weekend very quietly on the working bench, and I shall have an unhappy time till I hear its spinning engine again!