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Is this the ex-Vietnam 'CIA' Brescia?
Erik Thomas: "I took this picture of this Bugatti at the 2011 or 2012 VSCCA Hunnewell Hillclimb. This is a pre-war only event near Boston, Massachusetts. I was sitting in my MGTC waiting for my run up the hill, when the owner of the Bug backed it up into the wooded area to have a wee. For some odd reason, those Brescia Bugs always look best off road. If I remember, that car was found by one of our members while he was working for the CIA in Vietnam in the 1960's. Somehow, he got it home. He is no longer alive, and the car was sold on to Italy. I think that car was one of my favorites of all time. Perhaps some day I will own one."

editor: Erik isn't 100% sure this is the ex-Vietnam car and would love to have the identity of the car confirmed from Brescia circles.

See BC 062 on bugattiregister.com

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Bugatti Type 39 Grand Prix Touring for sale
An incredibly rare opportunity to acquire a car from one the most highly respected and renown members of the Bugatti community. In his ownership for over 40 years, beautifully presented throughout and with original features that are unique to this car

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Registration Number: EU Registered
Chassis Number: 57196

The fame and glamour of the Bugatti name grew very largely from racing success, Ettore Bugatti, 'Le Patron', was fully aware of the importance of the road cars, and the results are some of the most wonderful of all the cars which bear his name. The final offering of these creations in the pre-war era was the superb Type 57, introduced in 1934 to immediate acclaim at the Paris Salon de l'Automobile. At the heart of the car was the jewel-like straight-eight, twin-cam 3.3 Litre, (a descendant of the world-beating Type 51 Grand Prix racing cars' powerplant) which like all Bugatti engines is as beautiful as it is functional. The model was to become the best-selling Bugatti of all in various increasingly sophisticated forms until 1939 when the Second World War intervened. The production run coincided with an exceptionally graceful era of coachwork design, and the Type 57 we are proud to offer for sale today is one of the most elegant of all.
This is an uncommonly pure example of the superb early version of the design, with 'profilee' windscreen and what were known as 'spats', filling in the rear wheel arches, and the frontal aspect is balanced by a small integral projecting luggage boot. It is most handsomely finished in a two-tone colour scheme of Embassy Black with a very dashing Cardinal Red midriff, and of course retains the correct wire wheels. The interior is the epitome of restrained good taste, luxuriously finished in Tan leather with matching carpets, and the typically Bugatti elegant polished wood dashboard carries the correct Jaeger 'art deco style' instrumentation cluster and authentic switchgear.

World renowned Bugatti specialist David Sewell has confirmed that this particular Ventoux, chassis number 57196 and was produced in early July 1934 and three months later was fitted with factory built coachwork which was completed on 2nd October '34. It was then invoiced on the very same day for delivery to Messrs Crequey & Cornette of 59, Rue d'Artois, Lille who were Bugatti agents for the north of France and invoiced 63,744 francs for their client named de Leseleuc.

The car returned to the factory about a year later because, although both factory and coachwork records confirm 57196 was indeed fitted with engine 106, the very same list shows engine 222 as having been fitted. Engine 222 was a late Series I engine (the very last being 225).

This replacement engine was new, fitted by the factory and never having been fitted to another Type 57, so it can be dated fairly accurately to September 1935. According to David Sewell this is confirmed by a factory workshop record dated 14th September 1935 noting that engine number 222 was fitted with all the later modifications except for the inlet and exhaust manifolds.

Hugh Conway's Bugatti Register update in 1973 confirms the car was on display at the Bonnal Museum in Bordeaux and later in 1985 Pierre-Yves Laugier confirms in his French Bugatti register that it is owned by a French collector, A Prost of Roanne, some 50 miles north west of Lyon who is believed to be a member of the same family as Grand Prix driver Alain. Indeed the current vendors have in the history file a copy of Yvonne Prosts identification card and the French Carte Grise confirms the car resided in Roanne.

Mechanically, the car is said by its former owner to drive very well, remaining as taut and responsive as Type 57s ought to be and this wonderful motor car has been a central feature of a collection in Spain for some years and comes with a history file containing the aforementioned report from renowned Marque historian David Sewell and French registration documents.

For further information please contact our sales department on +44 (0) 208 614 7888, or please email sales@coys.co.uk

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I bumped into Sally at Chris McPheat’s stand at La Vie en Bleu. She needed a picture of a Bugatti Veyron to allay her young son’s disappointment at being unable to come to Prescott so I offered to help. Once in the paddock I could tell this lady had taste. Her eyes immediately fell upon Roland Duce’s Bugatti 57 with exotic bodywork designed by Gangloff in the early 1930s. Behind the Bugatti stood the unique 1923 Gérin Aerodyne whereupon the owner Reg Winstone graciously offered a seat for a photograph – but no, it HAD to be a Veyron.

Luckily Ian Patton ( Bugatti Owners’ Club’s General Manager) was at hand and he personally lifted the elegant blue rope which protected the cars from we mere mortals. Admiring her stylish jacket, he ushered Sally into the inner sanctum which housed not one but TWO Bugatti Veyrons. By now our Panhard Princess was beginning to acquire a taste for the Bugatti marque, and across the way was Tim Dutton generously offering a glass of champagne and the chance to linger over two more exquisite cars - ex Earl Howe 1937 Type 57S Atalante and the stylish Bugatti Type 51A / 38A A (I think) whose history escapes me. But I wasn’t going to rest until I got a picture of Sally sitting in a Bugatti, and sure enough Gilly Howard-Orchard came to my rescue and helped my subject into her Brescia which did the trick. Sally came alive and my camera did its work.

(Text and photos by Robin Batchelor)

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BUGATTI type 44, rebodied 25 years ago in England.

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We're looking at a rare shot of a very wet day in 1938 with the Tour de France crossing Lille (the backyard of Bruno Vendiesse). Of paricular interest of course is the Bugatti T57 Atalante driven through foot deep puddles in a way you hardly can imagine today. We have seen a few Atalante pictures ov er the years and we're always surprtised to find new details. The car is a two toen version of which various are known. Also we have seen many small and very small rear windows. Yet this one made us frown. Based on the lack of gloss in the middle part of the roof we think this is a decapotable. There is a remarkable resemblance with #57.312 shown here. The only things we found is the different colour scheme (the two tone in the picture above is more like black over red or blue, but certainly not white. Further the much smaller petrol cap in the car as presented today and the different positioning of the rear windows. And now you've come so far please cleick the main pic and tell us what you think about the car on the left...

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At the moment Arnoud and Ard op de Weegh are working on a new book about the Schlumpf Affair. " This book will tell the whole truth about the affair and will display many new photo's that never have been shown before. We're also the writers of The Fate of The Sleeping Beauties, the book that tells the truth about the Dovaz collection (Sleeping Beauty collection) that was photographed in the early 80's bij Herbert Hesselmann. We have a lot of information yet (For example: the fact that some people have tried to buy the collection from Fritz Schlumpf to keep the factory going. And Fritz agreed, but the deal could never be made.. etc. etc.), but if you have any new facts about this collection or documents or photo's that could make this book better, please let us know! Don't hesitate to contact us!

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An American Bugatti?

Have I lost my mind? Was there every such a thing – a Bugatti (which is certainly French) with a Derham coach built body (made in good old Rosemont, Pa.).

The answer is obviously, yes.

Purportedly built by Derham Body Company for its owner; John Fritsche, Jr. This is, in fact, a real Bugatti. Under that striking body exists a T43 Bugatti chassis, #43264. Replete with its original running gear, John drove the car around a bit. But here, in America, Bugatti’s were a bit of an odd thing. Hardly collectible then, they were, at best, a novelty. So adding your own version of an aerodynamic coupe was not considered sacrilegious. Can you imagine the looks that John received driving this car around the Philadelphia area?

In fact, the car’s second owner (a high school teacher) removed the Bugatti engine and transmission and supplanted a Ford six cylinder motor in its place. Which is how it remained for the next 50 or so years.

The late Bill O’Brien, who had been searching for the car for quite a long time, found it chained to a tree.

The chassis is apparently in Switzerland being restored, however, with an original drivetrain and will be rebodied with a Nuess Body open touring body. The Derham body was apparently not needed or wanted and is said to reside, to this day, in California.

Frankly, I would have preferred that the Derham body be retained. It may well be the last time the French and Americans aligned on any project.

Who did such wonderful research?
Oh, that's right...me.
Sandy

Sandy,
very very good.

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lario presenteert in de Chromes-serie een open Bugatti T57SC Atalante Ganglof uit 1937. De bestuurdersdeur is in geopende stand gefixeerd en biedt zo beter zich op het gedetailleerde interieur. Het model kost ca. € 170.