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What color was the Bugatti Type 19 Bebe prototype?
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Author:  annex_green [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:01 am ]
Post subject:  What color was the Bugatti Type 19 Bebe prototype?
Hello everybody! We are planning to make a Bugatti Bebe Prototype miniature model.
But we don't know what colour it was. Especially it seems the the colour of front body is different from rear body - ???
Please advise me if you have any information about it.
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Author:  Johan Buchner [ Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What color was the Bugatti Type 19 Bebe prototype?
I may be completely wrong, but it seems to me to be unpainted. There does seem to be evidence of welding and/or planing around the scuttle area ; which might account for the two-tone effect.

But this is pure speculation on my part based partly on observation of the two photos and partly on Ettore leaving the prototype T10 unpainted for a while.

Does anyone else know for sure?

Johan
Author:  annex_green [ Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What color was the Bugatti Type 19 Bebe prototype?
Thank you, Johan,
It is surely possible the prorotype car was unpainted. The rear body might be made of fabrics so that two-tone effect appeared. And it seems the front body has not revealed bare-metal itself but a rust preventive had been painted.
What colour was unti-rust paint in those days ?
annex_green
Author:  Whitney Paine [ Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What color was the Bugatti Type 19 Bebe prototype?
Hi,

I agree with Johan. looks unpainted aluminium(?), but prepped for painting.

Had a look at Tome 1 of Norbert Steinhauser's masterpiece and pages 238 and 239 show an advert and picture that suggest a glossy mid-grey. Page 240 shows a picture with the car looking like it has black paintwork with a slightly matte sheen to it.

You have hit on a problem I have been unsuccesfully trying to solve. That is, if you have a grey scale picture (as black and white photographs are) and you know what some of the colours are -say the Bugatti logo colours, tyres and leaves on a tree - can you extrapolate the other colours from the grey scale?
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