• Rare 1936 Bugatti sells at auction for $30-40M, may have set record
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[url]http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/05/rare-1936-bugatti-may-be-most-expensive-used-car-ever/1[/url] [release][img]http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/drive-on/2010/05/06/bugattix-large.jpg[/img] A 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, the rarest of the rare, may have set a sales record at auction. The auction house, Gooding & Company, won't disclose the sale price even as it touts that that the car went for a sales record. It calls the Bugatti the "world's most valuable car." Autoblog puts the sales price at "between $30-40 million, easily eclipsing the $12.2 million paid for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa this time last year." The buyer, Gooding says, is "a devoted connoisseur who will become the guardian of this treasured piece of automotive history." Or, as Drive On sees it, someone with way too much money on their hands. "I am extremely pleased to have found the new buyer for the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, one of the world's most significant and valuable automobiles that has been in a private collection and rarely seen during the past four decades," says David Gooding, president of Gooding & Company. Gooding says the Atlantic was an automobile derived from Bugatti's prototype Aerolithe Electron Coupé that caused a sensation when it was unveiled at the 1935 Paris Auto Salon. Bugatti later built just three Atlantics, each one different from the next, but this 1936 car (chassis #57374) is the first in the series and its historical significance, originality and restoration has been revered by enthusiasts throughout the world. Formerly the coveted pillar of the world-renowned Williamson Bugatti Collection, the Atlantic was the 2003 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance best in Show car.[/release] 1936 Bugatti: $40 million Never being able to drive it: Priceless
:wtc: Expensive.
I'd rather have 30 of these: [img]http://autopinionsbyvolk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/2006-bugatti-veyron-targa-florio-f-salt-flats-1280x960.jpg[/img]
Reminds me of the Ambiguously Gay Duo for some reason
Bugatti's are overrated and loved by fanboys who are misinformed that the Bugatti Veyron is the world's fastest car
[QUOTE=K2cougar;21785500]I'd rather have 30 of these: [img_thumb]http://autopinionsbyvolk.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/2006-bugatti-veyron-targa-florio-f-salt-flats-1280x960.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] I could build a very nice collection of postwar German automobiles with $40 million.
This just in: Man who bought Bugatti for 35M gets in car crash. Car is totaled.
[QUOTE=playelite;21785766]This just in: Man who bought Bugatti for 35M gets in car crash. Car is totaled.[/QUOTE] Remember that happened with the [url=http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jalongi/gifs/250gto.jpg]Ferrari 250 GTO[/url] though, because the rich dumbass didn't understand what "collectible" and "not to be driven" means.
Looks pimp.
that 1936 Bugatti looks pretty fucking cool though, I wouldn't mind getting that over a modern pimp car
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