Renowned international auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will once again grace the great lawn of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline with its annual auction of rare collectors motorcars and automobilia -- on Saturday, April 21st. Now a fixture on the international collector and motoring calendar, the 2007 Brookline sale brings outstanding collector motorcars to Massachusetts - along with an international following of avid collectors.

Leading Bonhams & Butterfields' impressive array of offerings in Brookline is the 1926 Ex-Works Team, Bartolomi Constantini, Bugatti Type 39A Grand Prix Racing Two-Seater [chassis no. 4802, engine no. 76], a classic and historically important car, and one of the first supercharged Grand Prix Bugattis ever built. The factory works cars were treated with many features that production cars would not have had. Chassis '4802' is well known in the US and around the world and comes to auction from one of America's preeminent collections. It is estimated to sell for more than one million dollars.

Of fuller details on this car : HERE

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International auctioneers, Bonhams & Butterfields sold a 1926 Bugatti Type 39A Grand Prix Racing car for $1.2-Million dollars Saturday, at their sixth annual sale at the Brookline, Massachusetts venue of the Larz Anderson Auto Museum. Fine weather - for the first time in weeks - along with the established reputation of this auction among collectors, institutions and car aficionados world-wide, all contributed to the great success of this weekend's sale, with standing-room only crowds, competitive bidding and world record prices.

The excitement under the tent was palpable as bidding for the famed 1926 Bugatti volleyed from the room to the phone banks, and offers rose from the opening bid of $500,000 into and beyond the million-dollar mark. The 1926 Ex-Works Team, Bartolomi Constantini, Bugatti Type 39A Grand Prix Racing Two-Seater [chassis no. 4802, engine no. 76], a classic and historically important car, and one of the first supercharged Grand Prix Bugattis ever built, eventually went to an American private buyer bidding against a UK collector.

Source : Sport Car Market Magazine

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Make your dream devour your life, so that life doesn't devour your dream.
[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]