The gravity of coincidence: the 'Möner' Maserati Mystery

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When you operate in the cob web of a community like PWC you learn over the years that there is no such thing like coincidence. Unconnected facts and materials show the tendency to 'find' each other.

Listen to this true story from Jack Braam Ruben. Last year he visited the show of Padova and at an evening dinner was offered a rare Brutsch Maserati. This is a 1:2 scale childens car. But not a pedal car. It is motorised, has a gearbox and disc brake. It even has a racing history(!) dating back to 1950 when it appeared at a youth event during the Solitude Rennen. So far nothing special in the life of a man like Jack.

The shock came with a file of documents including a B&W photo showing the car on top of a 1950 Opel Olympia. Jack was perplex! Not long before he had visited a befriended dealer in Brussels and overheard a conversation of a client with that dealer while pointing at a perfectly original 1950 Opel Olympia saying "...you should saw my Opel in two pieces. In that way I will have two nice seats."

Now Jack jumped in and protested that it was a disgrace to destroy a perfect old car like that. It ended that he had to buy the 1950 Olympia - this being his very first Opel - as his lifelong passion for cars has more to do with a wellknown Molsheim manufacturer. The old black & white photo showing his two recent acquisitons was etched in his brain and so it is hardly coincidence that not too much later he stumbled over the depicted roofrack. So now he was ready to set up a 3D presentation of  what was in the old photo.

Still a few loose ends should be resolved. The nose of the Maser is adorned with the name/brand Möner and a picture of a black boy. According to a recent letter,  Mr. Horst Möner was a german producer of chocolate products for children.  There is still a chocolate company operating in Spain under the name, Moner Cacao SA, yet when you check the history line of the company you'll land in a pothole. So here's an alternative: the picture of the boy's face may be connected with the fact that Mr. Möner was benefactor of a kindergarten in Tanzania. Another angle is suggesting that very similar faces are shown in the heraldry of communities connected with the town of Freising in southern Germany which may have been the hometown of Mr. Möner. Let's see if coincidence can be helped another time.  In the meantime the photo above could be  shot again with the products of history and coincidence.

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