Now here's a good barn find

[bull]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-Bugatti-supercar-found/ss/events/lf/010409bugattisupecar

In this undated image released by Bonhams, an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, is seen in a garage in Gosforth, England, where it was found by relatives after the death of the owner, an elderly doctor who last used it around 1960. The Bugatti, one of only 17 ever made, is expected to draw a record price when it is auctioned in Paris next month.

[71bigblock]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,52168.0.html

[rav440]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,52168.0.html

yes , but scrolling down sucks 

[bull]

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,52168.0.html

yes , but scrolling down sucks 

Yes it does.

[gordo1968charger]

give me a hemi 68 charger instead

[moparstuart]

give me a hemi 68 charger instead

you could buy 50 hemi cars or more , if you had that car 

[71bee]

It may be worth something to someone....but not me. sorry. not my thing. 

now, if it was an old Chrysler Airstream.... 

[moparstuart]

It may be worth something to someone....but not me. sorry. not my thing. 

now, if it was an old Chrysler Air Stream....

air flow

[Silver R/T]

cool car

[rt green]

ya, i'd sellit too. not into batman

[Shakey]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-Bugatti-supercar-found/ss/events/lf/010409bugattisupecar

In this undated image released by Bonhams, an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, is seen in a garage in Gosforth, England, where it was found by relatives after the death of the owner, an elderly doctor who last used it around 1960. The Bugatti, one of only 17 ever made, is expected to draw a record price when it is auctioned in Paris next month.

$4.something million I heard!

Cool story!

[moparstuart]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-Bugatti-supercar-found/ss/events/lf/010409bugattisupecar

In this undated image released by Bonhams, an extremely rare 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, is seen in a garage in Gosforth, England, where it was found by relatives after the death of the owner, an elderly doctor who last used it around 1960. The Bugatti, one of only 17 ever made, is expected to draw a record price when it is auctioned in Paris next month.

$4.something million I heard!

Cool story!
   I heard it was estimated worth 7 mill ?

[Brock Samson]

an air stream eh?..    "and to each his own" eh,.. 
My memory recalls the last one going for well over 7 Mill. It was designed by Buggatti Sr's. Son who died tragically...
I haven't read the history in probably 30 years but I very well may again... I have a Bio somewhere.. if I can find it... if it's findable.. It's concidered one of the most attractive Autos ever built & it's sure alot better lookin then the
Royal.
or the air stream... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_57

[bull]

Yup, Airstreams are cool. I'd like to get one someday to pull behind the Charger.

[71bee]

yup, to each his own. I'll still stick with my Charger....at least until I can snag one of them awesome Airstreams! (should we continue running this into the dirt?)  

I dig the ol' dino's, but, as you can tell, am not that familiar with many of the body styles or their values. I do remember checking out a 30 something Chrysler Airstream a few years back at a local car show. if I were to own a dino, that would most likely be my choice. you can take your super-duper Bugatti & drive it right on back to Italy for all I care.   

now, about the '57 Plymouth....  

[bull]

BTW, guys, I never said anything about keeping the ugly old boat. I'd sell it faster than a Hemi Charger can do the quarter mile. I just like stories where people unearth stuff that's worth the value of a small country.

[Brock Samson]

yup, to each his own. I'll still stick with my Charger....at least until I can snag one of them awesome Airstreams! (should we continue running this into the dirt?)  

I dig the ol' dino's, but, as you can tell, am not that familiar with many of the body styles or their values. I do remember checking out a 30 something Chrysler Airstream a few years back at a local car show. if I were to own a dino, that would most likely be my choice. you can take your super-duper Bugatti & drive it right on back to Italy for all I care.   

now, about the '57 Plymouth....  

So,.. What are you really thinking you'd rather have a Chysler Airflow or an Airstream Trailer?..
It's not exactly clear..
Dinos arn't really concidered in the same catagory as either an Airstream an Airflow a Buggatti or a '57 Plymouth...
and Buggattis are from France..
  Not your can of mountain dew, o.k.  I git it...
 
Can we get this trainwreck back on the tracks?..

[moparstuart]

 All I know is if i could sell it for 7 million that could buy you alot of air streams, air flow , hemi's and moutain dews . Sell it and be happy .   

[Aero426]

you can take your super-duper Bugatti & drive it right on back to Italy for all I care.   

Interestingly, Ettore Bugatti was the type of guy who would not sell a car to "just anyone".     Having cash in hand was not enough.    If you were a person of some importance, OR you wanted to go racing, that was another matter.

It's not so important what the car is.  It's the barn find part that's interesting, and that the car is so rare.   

[Aero426]

an air stream eh?..    "and to each his own" eh,.. 
My memory recalls the last one going for well over 7 Mill. It was designed by Buggatti Sr's. Son who died tragically...
I haven't read the history in probably 30 years but I very well may again... I have a Bio somewhere.. if I can find it... if it's findable.. It's concidered one of the most attractive Autos ever built & it's sure alot better lookin then the
Royal.
or the air stream... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_57

That black Type 57 is Ralph Lauren's car. 

[Aero426]

One of the other really interesting Bugatti used car deals goes back to 1964 when Fritz Schlumpf bought thirty Bugattis from John Shakespeare from Illinois.

Shakespeare's father had invented the modern fishing reel.  His son John (who did not exactly have to work) had collected the cars starting in 1956, and eventually lost interest. But he had amassed quite a collection including everything from an electric runabout Bugatti used for plant inspections to a Royale, the car of kings. They were everything from very nice, to complete projects. But there were 30 of them all told in the unlikely location of central Illinois.

Schlumpf on the other hand was a German textile baron. A real ruthless a-hole if you know what I mean. Schlumpf was the kind of guy who when the English Bugatti club published a membership roster in the 1950's, he sent a letter to each member offering to purchase their cars - which netted him something like 50 cars.

About 1962, Schlumpf got word through intermediaries that Shakespeare was willing to sell, which started a two year long dance and battle of wills between the two.

Schlumpf and Shakespeare never met in person or ever shared a telephone call. The deal was done exclusively by air mail, or when Schlumpf would send a telegram.

By early 1964, the deal was done and Shakespeare loaded the cars onto three rail cars and sent them to France for $85,000.   A deal or deals, even then.

Upon arriving in France, Schlumpf stood armed with a whip to drive away the curious, and keep them away from what would become his private museum (created on the backs of his textile workers). Later, he would respond to journalist requests to see the cars in that he would hold a press event of epic proportions. He would wheel each car into the sun light for fifteen minutes on condition that nobody ever requested a return visit.

Schlumpf eventually softened and made plans to turn his museum into a tourist attraction. However, about this time in 1976, his textile mills were handed over to creditors, and he and his brother fled to Switzerland abandoning his beloved collection. Eventually criminal and tax charges were filed.

Today, the collection exists intact at a national car museum. It is fantastic.

Endings: the short version of the story is that Schlumpf never saw his collection again, except for one very short visit before he died in 1992.

In 1975, Shakespeare was found handcuffed, gagged and shot in his home. It remains unsolved.

Here's a link with pics to the train load of Bugattis.

http://www.bugattirevue.com/revue28/shakesp.htm

[TUFCAT]

Its a good thing that car is so valuable......or else I'd melt it down for scrap.  It's just not appealing to me. 

If it was an Austin Healey, well then....., that might me okay! 

[gordo1968charger]

i d sell the shit out of it,

[Brock Samson]

 

[TUFCAT]

Yes indeed.  I could live LARGE for a while .....with that fugly M-F'er out of my garage!