Transport of Bugatti's to races

Herman · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:48 am

Strange, it works here. Time for an update I fear...

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Michael Müller · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:04 am

Okay, thanks. Works now...

Haje · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:06 am

Here is another transporter

Herman · **Posted:** Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:44 am

I think it is the truck of which the picture went missing in the beginning of the thread:

John Eric Isberg's Ford Model AA truck including Bugatti Type 35

jacobug · **Joined:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:54 pm **Posts:** 131

Herman wrote:

chassis number not correct. Should be 37355 Later owned many years by mr. Andersen of Amsterdam, one of the founders of the dutch Bugatti Club.

Johan Buchner · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:36 pm

Every now and again a reply is posted to an old thread and I then discovered a whole lot of things I missed the first time around! Briefly :

To Aravis : Yes, a Ford Model T said to have belonged to the Bugatti family was recently sold, of course now that I went looking for the information, I can't find it anywhere - I believe there was some experimental component(s?) fitted. If anyone out there is more organised than myself, please provide the correct info.

To Martijn : Yes a T55 does make a good transporter doesn't it? 1932 ex-Le Mans 55221, rebodied by Figoni, owned by Mr. G. St John. An amazing man, rumour has it he can re-roller a crankshaft blindfolded. Oh, one more thing - not a Type 35, a Type 51 - see that little blow-hole thingy on the side of the bonnet? On a T35 its higher up. Yes really, Hugh Conway says it is so and Hugh Conway is never wrong. Ever.

To Jacobug : Your first post and you're correcting Michael Muller?! Welcome, I really mean that. Over to you Michael ......

I am so done for tonight.

Regards
Johan

Bugwrench · **Joined:** Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:16 pm **Posts:** 338

Johan Buchner wrote:

Mr. G. St John. An amazing man, rumour has it he can re-roller a crankshaft blindfolded.

Just re-rollering is not that difficult provided you know what you are doing. Correcting the bloody errors made by others is often the biggest challenge.
Bugwrench

Michael Müller · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:57 pm

Johan Buchner wrote:

To Jacobug : Your first post and you're correcting Michael Muller?! Welcome, I really mean that. Over to you Michael ......

Where's the problem? I'm far away from being always correct, and I appreciate if wrong data are put right. I have been informed also from other side that #37355 should be the correct number, and by crosschecking my files I found that #37282 I picked from a secondary if not even tertiary source.

The problem is that due to the large number of cars in my database up to now I found no suitable manner to put sources to all single data and information.

Herman · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:53 am

Chill down people, and back on track!

How were Bugattis transported to races, and hauled anywhere where they should go, and show me pictures of that.

Rafaelli is telling in his book that he hauled several Bugattis and any other car for that matter, but little photographic material of that.

On the sources (primary, secondary and tertiary) I have got the message, and I will try and figure out something to tackle that. Just give me some time to experiment. Expect a post on that soon. (not in this thread).

jacobug · **Joined:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:54 pm **Posts:** 131

This is the way they used to do it in Poland

gerrit · **Joined:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:58 pm **Posts:** 2810

A beautiful old photograph, is of it more :?:

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