Have you seen this...

http://www.prewarcar.com/read_article.asp?id=3130

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Vive la Marque !!

the so called reserve collection contains around 6o cars, 16 of them bugattis, mostly 57`s. but there are other interesting thinks, like a batch of bedelias, a very rare siwaire berwick and the most interesting car, the last attemot of the buccialli brothers with a new front wheel drive on a mathis chassis with an original bucialli radiator.

regards
mike

We are writing a book on the Schlumpf affair an we had the oppertunity to photograph and film the mean part of this collection in july in France.

You can see some of our 650 photos an a piece of film on our website www.extraordinarycarcollections.com

Ard

So it is official, Ard op de Weegh is going to write the story of the Schlumpfs. If this is going to be as detailed and as sensitive as his treatment of Mr Dovaz and his "sleeping beauties" then it will be a work worth having. If you think about it, a lot is known of the cars collected by the brothers, but the people they were, and the people they loved, well, less is known.

I am extremely curious to see how Ard evaluate them and their legacy : Saints or sinners? Giants or minnows? Like all of us, they probably had elements of each, but Ard has a way of finding gentility in the most unlikely places. M. Dovaz became the hapless victim of a self-aggrandizing photographer; yet Ard successfully managed to undo the damage and rescue the reputation of this gentle, if eccentric man. I can't wait to read his treatise on the people behind the greatest collection of Bugattis ever.

Another two must-haves from one of the most underrated author/researchers around. Thank you Ard.

Kind Regards
Johan Buchner.

PS. Great article in the Bugatti Review.

Thank you Johan, for the nice words. But it's fair to say, that I did that hell of a job together with my son and our German friend Kay Hottendorff.

It was not possible to do the Dovaz-job alone. And the Schlumpf case is even more complicated. So I am glad, that we do this job together again.

Best regards,


Ard