Bugatti Type 57s barnfind?

Greg Morgan · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:10 am **Posts:** 334

I'm intrigued by the pictures that Uwe has posted this morning of what appears to be a wrecked type 57s. Apart from the Black Atlantic, there are only two others of this type unaccounted for- both being Atalante's, which disappeared before WW2. One was known to have crashed, killing the driver and the other simply vanished in France After hunting down the owner of the photographs, it would seem that the elderly French owner scrapped it quite soon after the shot was taken and moved into a care home. Shame as it would have been one of the most valuable Bugatti's possible.

Herman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:46 pm

Looks like somebody started scraping away the blue paint, long time ago.

Uwe · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:12 pm **Posts:** 2285

57492 Atalante was black
57521 Atalante??
57552 Atalante was black/red

Greg Morgan · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:10 am **Posts:** 334

Very, very interesting.

copperkettle · **Joined:** Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:23 pm **Posts:** 127

Yawn...nice try, but it is 57542/28S, ex-Dovaz. Alive and well.
CK

Uwe · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:12 pm **Posts:** 2285

I do not see any similarity

Greg Morgan · **Joined:** Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:10 am **Posts:** 334

Uwe · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:12 pm **Posts:** 2285

http://alexandre.tornel.pagesperso-oran ... epaves.htm

hortig78rpm · **Joined:** Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:12 pm **Posts:** 247

Greg, many, many years ago, I read about a secret french collection, mostly of Amilcar cars. The owner started the collection in the 5o`s, but he scrapped all Bugattis, which came into his hands, for their "fussy" technic, and concentrated more on Amilcar, which he thought to be much better to maintain and drive......

Mike

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