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Written by Vijay Pattni
Only four Type 57 Atlantic Coupes were ever produced by Bugatti. One of them went to Parisian entrepreneur Jacques Holzshuh, before meeting its end on a railway crossing. Another was delivered new to Baron Victor Rothschild and is owned today by American collector Peter Mullin. A third is currently in the hands of Ralph Lauren, while the fourth? Nobody knows. One of the great mysteries of the car world is the whereabouts of La Voiture Noire": Jean Bugatti"s very own Type 57 Atlantic. But the car that previewed the lot of them is the one above. Sort of. It"s a rebodied, restored Bugatti Aerolithe"; a prototype first shown off at the 1935 Paris Motor Show. A man named David Grainger from The Guild of Automotive Restoration (working out of Canada) was commissioned to recreate the car that paved the way for the most famous pre-war car ever built. He had the original chassis of the Aerolithe number 57104 as well as its original 3.3-litre eight-cylinder engine, and rear axle. But no body.
Date written: 10 Jul 2019
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Only four Type 57 Atlantic Coupes were ever produced by Bugatti. One of them went to Parisian entrepreneur Jacques Holzshuh, before meeting its end on a railway crossing. Another was delivered new to Baron Victor Rothschild and is owned today by American collector Peter Mullin. A third is currently in the hands of Ralph Lauren, while the fourth? Nobody knows. One of the great mysteries of the car world is the whereabouts of La Voiture Noire": Jean Bugatti"s very own Type 57 Atlantic. But the car that previewed the lot of them is the one above. Sort of. It"s a rebodied, restored Bugatti Aerolithe"; a prototype first shown off at the 1935 Paris Motor Show. A man named David Grainger from The Guild of Automotive Restoration (working out of Canada) was commissioned to recreate the car that paved the way for the most famous pre-war car ever built. He had the original chassis of the Aerolithe number 57104 as well as its original 3.3-litre eight-cylinder engine, and rear axle. But no body.
Date written: 10 Jul 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16265
