Pere Tarragó’s model motorcycles are incredibly detailed and lifelike. You haven’t seen anything like this yet!
Somehow it’s appropriate that Pere Tarragó, today’s creator of the finest and most intricate miniaturised motorcycles made in Europe – maybe the world – should live in Barcelona. For this is the European capital of motorcycles, where more people ride powered two-wheelers through its streets each day than anywhere else in the European Union.
Tarragó’s 1:5 scale models of Bultaco and Montesa motorcycles are breathtakingly executed, finely detailed and faithfully accurate works of two-wheeled art, whether entirely hand-crafted one-offs built to special order costing anywhere from €12,000 upwards, or hand-assembled series production models constructed from components many of which are manufactured in a local jewellery workshop from Tarragó’s patterns. The Montesa Impala 250 and its essentially identical 125 sister that have been Pere’s Classic Motor Models concern’s best sellers so far, can be yours for €2050, while the Bultaco Metralla 250 goes for €2500 (all prices plus tax).
Pere Tarragó, 61, is one of those fortunate men who’s made his hobby his livelihood. Formerly an electronics engineer, he previously owned a hi-fi audio equipment store in downtown Barcelona before selling it in 2007, just on the cusp of the economic downturn in order to switch careers, and become a full time model builder. In his spare time he explores Europe together with his wife on the Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail Classic that shares his garage with a Moto Beta 250 trailbike. The career change turned out to be an astute decision:
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