Miloš Schütz

"A ban came that cars with a compressor were not allowed to race. So [my father] bought a BMW engine to put it in a Bugatti car. But before he could do that, foreign cars were banned from the races, in the 1950s. And finally - and this is confirmed in the book about the Masaryk circuit, where Antonín Vitvar, who was driving a Norton, was winning and was always beating Jawa mortorcycles, so they banned him from riding a Norton. He writes there that when he was going with his daughter into the depot, they asked him why he had not started, he confirms the ban on foreign machines. And before the idea of putting a BMW engine in a Bugatti car was carried out, an order was issued that they would be obliged to sign that they would not overtake Tatra and Škoda cars at races. So he said that he could f*** it. He said it quite rudely. At that time, they allowed people to build popular small cars, so he started building a racing Minor. When the ban came, he converted it into a popular small car. And it´s lucky that it turned out like this. The racing Minor would have been long gone by now, but the popular small car is still here. It still has registration number, I maintain it, and I can repair anything on it."