I got a mail from the owner, who sent me a short history:

History: Bugatti 57529 was built in march 1937. Its first user, as “voiture de demonstration” was Robert Benoist, the famous Bugatti racing driver (24 du Mans winner in 1937, first World champion driver in 1927) and director of the Bugatti Showroom in Paris. Ettore Bugatti personally registered the car in Strasbourg on 28th july 1937, and used it as tied accomodation car (perhaps with a factory coachbody). Then Bugatti commissioned the Vanvooren body cabriolet in January 1938, for a French customer, M. Plegat. In 1954, the well known Bugatti mechanic Henri Novo (from Paris) bought the car. In 1959, he sold it to Belgian broker and Bugatti enthusiast Jean de Dobbeleer, who shipped the Bugatti to his correspondent in the United States, Bugatti broker Gene Cesari. He gave it to a dentistry, James Stickley from Iowa, in exchange for a Type 35 racer. In 1972, Mr. John R. Bond, of Escondido (California), the owner of «Cars & tracks» magazine, bought the car, and restored it, at a cost of 250,000 dollars (or 250,000 euros in 2008). Mr. John Bond sold the car in 1988, through a Sotheby's auction in Switzerland. A classic car collector, Mr. Helmut Karbe, from Hamburg (Germany) bought the car and asked the Danish Bugatti specialist living in France, Eric Koux, to install a compressor (engine, No. 248 from n° 57358 Bugatti, another type 57 cabriolet which was written off in the fifties). In 2007, Mr. Patrick Meney, a well known french writer and tv producer, for a long time Bugatti enthusiast, bought the car.

He wanted to know the origin of the photos with the ladies on them:

<img src="http://www.bugattibuilder.com/photo/albums/userpics/10003/t57c_c14.jpg" alt="Bugatti type 57 Stelvio #57529">

Is that a poster, or a calendar?

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Vive la Marque !!

Maybe he can ask for the phonenumber of the lady as well??

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