Nah. It's been a long time I didn't go. Probably in the near future maybe. Stay tuned for that test drive
You should consider it. Not that it's soooo much better than cheval blanc though... Anyway, one day we could have a lunch there should you wish. Yup, that's going to be a hell of a ride. I took a ride in a friends new S-Class, the chauffeur showed me 1-2 funny things in the car (when reversing, night vision etc). It's really a great car. He swapped his 760 Li for that, and for the better. I like the car.
Hi everyone, I'm just back this morning from the "Retromobile 2006" in Paris, with the promised pics of some of the Bugattis (I think I got them all) on display at the show! We, Tina, me and the rest of our friends from the loooong bus trip arrived at Port de Versailles, Paris wednesday morning and soon after checking in we walked from our hotel to the Retromobile, only five minutes walk away from the hotel! I had bought tickets for three days, just in case I did not have time to see it all in the two days we had originally planned from home! However, I soon realised that I had to talk to so many nice young and old (Bugatti) people and nice new and old (Bugatti)friends, that I ended up with buying a ticket for further one day, so I spent close to four whole days of my time in Paris at the show,.................. and I did not see it all!!!!! I was also lucky enough to find a couple of model cars that I had been looking for and also a book that I have long missed! A lot of new friendly contacts were added to my Bugatti World, and also I met with several of my "old" long time Bugatti-friends and contacts! It was a very nice experience which I can only recommend for others to try next year! Paris offers a lot of other experiences also to the people that are not willing to spent four or more days at the Retromobile, only loking at cars, and of course I also took some time to visit the Eiffel Tower and the La Defence together with Tina and her Parents who also joined us on this trip!! Enough babble I think, I better start posting some of my pics....not all of them now, but I will post the rest of the pics that I have with relation to Bugatti from this trip, tomorrow when I have sorted them out and have them resized! Tina took all of these shots with her new Canon EOS 350D and it gave her some opportunity in learning how to take great pictures of cars, and she will also make a new thread elsewhere on Fchat with all of her shots from the Paris trip! I will upload a link to that thread later on! Please enjoy!
The Bugatti Club France stand offered on display a very early Bugatti eight valve engine and the well known Bugatti EB110SS that was entered in the Le Mans 24 hours in the mid nineties! In more of the EB110 pics you will find me standing beside and in front of and admire this supercar with my drawings portfolio over the shoulder! Also on display was a vitrine with some nice memorabilia, books, wrist watches, dvd films and a very handsome 1/8 scale model of a Bugatti Type 50 Le Mans! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A good friend of mine from the Establisimiento Pur Sang, from Argentina had only their Type 52 reproduction on display this year (Bugatti related)! It is an exact replica of the original Bugatti Type 52 that were made by the Bugatti factory for children to drive, and the car has an electric engine, just like the original, that Ettore had originally constructed for his younger son Roland to drive in the yards arround the factory and the family residence! The original Bugattis type 52 is generally accepted as real Bugattis and true collectors pieces just as the bigger full size road and GP cars! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Who did the T50 Le Mans car, and how expensive is it? How many thousands did you spend on Bugatti stuff?
A somewhat scratchbuilt Bugatti model car found on the show! Supposedly a Type 35, but wrongly made with a very roughly shaped tail!!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Some french Model builder handcrafted this wonderful and superbly detailed beauty! I'll dig out his name from my archieves a little later and return to you! This model was not for sale I believe! I spend some money on Bugatti stuff indeed, but having some good contacts sometimes help to get some real bargains you know! I did not spend thousands!
A VERY charming and very original Bugatti Type 43A designed by Jean Bugatti as an American style roadster! (More pics of this car will be posted tomorrow together with the rest of the pics........still many more to come!) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Ivan Dutton LTD. from the UK had a very nice stand at the show, displaying two Bugattis! Ivan Dutton LTD. are very proffesional care-takers and restorers of Bugattis and they produce highly accurate parts for these, from original blue prints and drawings from the Bugatti factory! This was their first exhibit at the Retromobile (I should think they will be back next year as their stand was very popular and well recieved), and they had on display a half restored Bugatti type 35B built up with newly produced parts on a BC chassis frame,(A frame that have been issued with a Bugatti Club chassis number plate) and further they had a VERY original and very famous Type 35C on display! They were also selling some of the memorabilia of the Bugatti Owners Club, and I bought myself a nice new t-shirt! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
At Ivan Dutton's I met with Julian Mazjub, whom I presented with some of my Bugatti prints, and in return he very kindly introduced me to a very nice elderly American Gentleman and member of the American Bugatti club sitting relaxed on the couch at Terry Cardy's stand! Julian introduced me and explained the gentleman about me and my drawings, and showed him the prints that I had just given to Julian! The American almost instantly got a small happy tear from his eyes, as he saw my drawing of the Type 40 with the engine exposed.....he tried my knowledge by asking what type of car this was, and I of course answered that the car was a type 40 and that it belonged to a friend of mine from the Netherlands! He replied with a charming smile, and told me that he himself had a Type 40, and that he had found it in Asia back in the Fifties! He exhamined my drawings very carefully, and asked if it was okay for him to write up an article in the American Bugatti Club magazine, (Pur Sang) and if he could print the drawings for this article, as he was very impressed by the correctly and highly detailed drawings! I of course accepted his very kind offer, and we talked about Bugattis and Atlantics for almost an hour .......I think Tina was a bit bored with this, so I returned to talk to the gent the next day, and also brought him a smal collection of prints, as a thanks for his nice gesture! He asked me to personally sign the Print with the type 40, and he was very happy about the prints! We had invited him to visit us, and he instantly accepted our offer, and said that he would drive with his type 40 from France to Denmark for a visit, as it was "only 800 miles away"!!!! A true Bugattiste he was indeed, and not affraid to drive this distance with his type 40 despite the fact that he is nearly eighty years of age!!!! We got a very nice new friend in this gentleman, and we are looking very much forward to having him on visit here! Well....... back to Terry Cardy's stand, where there were three type 51's on display......one of the best looking stands at the Retromobile in my point of view! In the first picture you'll see Julian Mazjub, David Mize and me discussing details in my drawings by the couch! In the second picture you'll see David Mize and me in the couch......still discussing Bugattis after close to one hour.....I think Julian had given up on us! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Hi Carsten, Thank you Carsten to make us share this visit of Rétromobile (and of Paris). I note that you liked this visit you and Tina and that contact them too. The Terry Cardy's stand is it's true very superb and filled... the Type 43A I believe that it is that of Marc Nicolosi in the event chassis number #43289. Vive La Marque Best regards
Thanks a lot dear friend, Yes we benefitted greatly from our Paris trip, and we will be back for next year's Retromobile....no doubt about that! The Type 43A is indeed the car from Marc Nicolosi and of course you have the chassis number correct also! BTW: I have several more pics to post in this thread, but I need to rename them and to have them resized before I can post them! Vive La Marque! Carsten
At the stand of Jack Braam Ruben we found a nice Bugatti Type 57 Ventoux and a Type 35. Everywhere at the Retromobile show we found Bugatti items and art pieces, and of course model cars in all scales and of all sorts! I post a few of these here as well! I especially like the big 1/8 scale cars you see in the last pics, but they cost the same as a normal used car!!!!!!!!!......too much for my budget sadly!!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A restoration project recreating a handsome bodied Bugatti Type 57 and below what appears to be an original Bugatti Type 52, the car that was made by Bugatti for children to drive, and powered by an electric motor! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The final Bugatti pictures from the Retromobile showing the most beautyful Bugatti at this years show, and built on an original chassis frame with recreated bodywork originally designed by Jean Bugatti for Gangloff to build, but was never actualy made by Gangloff! The mechanical parts of this car was sorted out by the famous Danish Bugatti guru Erik Koux now living in France! There was only very few moments to take good photos of this car as people gathered arround this beauty all the time!!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
On Friday we visited the museum from Simca/Talbot/Peugeot and I imidiately spotted this original Silver Bugatti Royale mascot placed in a vitrine with some other nice mascots! 25 of these Royale mascots were produced and originally intended as a seal/stamp for Ettore Bugatti personally! The dancing elephant was sculpted by Ettore's famous brother Rembrandt Bugatti! It is the most sought after automobile mascot in the World today, and it is needless to say that it is also the most expensive! One example was sold years ago at an auction for as much as 99.999,- USD!!! I really had to pull myself together not to kick in the glass and put this piece in my pocket! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The last place I visited on Saturday before yet another Retromobile visit was the "La Defence" with the great Danish designed new Arch! On the huge square in front of the arch was a carrousel with a very nice Bugatti Brescia in approx. half scale for children to ride....very accurately detailed!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yes indeed, the Type 50 Le Mans model of 1931 was made by Christian Gouel, but I don't think the model is within the MCM range! You will find the 1/8 model of this car at Christian Gouel's own website, but unfortunately I don't have the link to post here, and I do not remember the price range for his superbly made models! Best Carsten
For those of you who would like to see the rest of our pics from our Paris/Retromobile trip, here's a link to the thread that Tina made in the European section : http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94398 (some of the pics in that thread is the same as the ones posted in this thread although I did only post the Bugatti related ones here) Best Carsten
I checked his web site. I have many of models in 1/43rd. He did two of the 1/8 T50 le Mans, one in black from 1935 and one in blue from 1931, but they are VERY expensive. The back one was sold. The price of the blue one including VAT in Europe is 28,000 Euros, and about 22,000 without VAT to other counteries!
I knew they were expensive, but I didn't think that they were THAT expensive....!!!!!!!! For that kind of money, I think I would prefer to buy myself an honest car! Whatever this model is, it is sure to be a true collectors item.....for the real hardcore fanatic collectors!
Finally I have had the pictures that were taken with my "Phone-camera" saved and resized on my PC , so I will start to post the most interesting of those now! I'm actually surprised to see that they have turned out reasonably okay, although some of them are a little shaken!! This first pic shows a very well known figure, at least for all the true Bugattistes! I met him walking arround at the Retromobile during the Saturday afternoon! I'm referring to the gentleman in the light blue shirt in the picture......Does any of you Bugattistes know this French gentleman??? Image Unavailable, Please Login
