the beauty of Bugatti

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/the-mullin-museum-celebrates-the-art-of-bugatti

A M Cassandre poster ad for Bugatti

 
Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, was a French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.

https://www.cassandre-france.com/

https://www.moma.org/artists/1015-a-m-cassandre

a Bugatti mini 2 seater with an aluminum body and 4 cylinder, in 1927/28

This is a photo by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, of a rally check point in 1927

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/369374-hispano-suiza-and-bugatti-1928-october

https://www.facebook.com/groups/367705281099658/posts/1315538869649623/

https://www.abebooks.com/signed/LADIES-RALLY-CHECKPOINT-1927-Lartigue-Jacques/22656596929/bd

Bugatti Type 37 Coach 2 door « La Cage à Mouche » by Million Guiet, cabriolet 1927 (cn 37125) with 1460-W1 (F), #189 Concours d’Elegance Femina au Bois de Boulogne, Paris (fr), June 1927 with Odette Renou

1924 Bugatti-Diatto Avio 8C

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10239148884203097&set=pcb.2857480387767975

there are a LOT of rich people in Las Vegas

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1371366474348446&set=pcb.1371366557681771

I'm surprised to find that the Bugatti page found my photos of the 2012 Beverly Hills Concours and used them, and gave my blog the credit for them!

https://www.bugattipage.com/2012news.htm

I had no idea the Bugatti people checked out my blog! 

if you don't have a roll bar, and your race car gets upside down... there isn't a lot of room for you under the car, and those gas caps are likely to get knocked off... so it's you, and gas, all over the track, and your car on top of you. Not good

https://www.bugattipage.com/2016news.htm

 

the wood buck for a Bugatti design "MATRICE DE PIÈCE DE FONDERIE OU 'MOULE MÈRE'" translated is roughly, foundry piece matrix mold

https://www.christies.com.cn/lot/bugatti-matrice-de-piece-de-fonderie-ou-5888805/?intobjectid=5888805&lid=1

https://www.bugattipage.com/2015news.htm

Millea Bros, a New Jersey-based auction house, is offering a Bugatti "Baby 52", a real serialized Bugatti, an electric kids car, in the December 12th auction... chassis number 142 of 500. Starting Bid: $15,000

enameled aluminum shell, machine turned instrument panel, Dunlop rubber tires, leather seat and straps, electric motor

Cable actuated 4 wheel drum brakes, tires are pneumatic Dunlop

The dashboard has an electric meter, with a brake lever on the exterior, to the right of the seat, and an enameled "Bugatti" plaque on the front

Originally designed with a combustion engine for his son Roland, as a half-scale toy modelled closely on the Grand Prix types 35 and 51, Ettore Bugatti decided to put the 'Baby' into production at Bugatti's Molsheim, France factory following the success it met with on the Bugatti stand at the 1927 Milan Automobile Salon. 

Given a works serial type number '52' and primarily known and marketed as 'Baby',  500 numbered units were produced between 1927 and 1935 with an electric motor for children between 6-8 years old. The original model was based on a 47-inch wheelbase, later examples were extended to 53 inches to accommodate larger children.

Because the chassis number is 152, it's likely made in 1927, as number 319 was made in 1929

https://auctions.milleabros.com/lots/view/1-BL5CJS/ettore-bugatti-baby-52-electric-car

The Baby 52 was manufactured with a remarkable attention to detail. Featuring a 12-volt electric motor that allowed the model to reach a speed of 12 mph, it could be driven in forward or reverse, had alloy wheels and pneumatic tires, an aluminum body and even a spare tire strapped to the side. 

Bugatti was obviously conscientious about the brakes when it came to younger drivers as the Baby has four drum brakes with expanding wooden shoes, cable-operated using a hand lever located on the right side, outside the vehicle.

The Baby was an immediate success despite its considerable price of 5,000 francs. 

Ettore would sometimes give one away as a thank you for a large order. Thus, Bugatti's more important, wealthier clients, such as some royal families, the Prince of Morocco in 1929 and Baudouin, the future king of Belgium in 1932.  

Baby Grand Prix races were held throughout France, with the winners receiving the traditional floral bouquet.

Giovanni Agnelli, later president of Fiat, had his first driving experience behind the wheel of a Type 52. 

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6007498  Sold for 75k USD in 2016, 82k in 2024  https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6517524

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-bugatti-baby-52-vers-1930-5888810/?  sold for 167k in 2015

The motor is an electric PARIS-RHÔNE, powered by a modern 12-volt battery. The dashboard is equipped with a meter and a reverse/stop/forward switch. 

 Acceleration is controlled by a pedal that operates a 6-position rheostat. Power is delivered to the rear wheels via a reduction gear. 

https://www.rouillac.com/fr/lot-235-81760-bugatti_baby_1929._type_baby_52._3_b.

first time I've ever seen an EB 110 in person (91-95 Bugatti)

the charming pencil sketches of Paul Chenard

 

https://automobiliart.blogspot.com

I have featured his work several times https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+chenard

advertising from the jeweler Van Esser, Illustration by François CHEVALLIER

 https://www.gros-delettrez.com/lot/171336/30928390-van-esser-pochette-publicitaire-du-joaillier-van-esser

the Bugatti is no longer the fastest production car, a Chinese car has grabbed the title, at 308 mph, 4 better than the Bugatti Chiron. And it's electric. Only 30 will be made

The Chinese-built Yangwang U9 Xtreme became the fastest production car in the world after it hit 308.4 mph at the ATP Papenburg’s high-speed oval in Germany, which means the EV dethroned the Bugatti Chiron.

It gets 2,978bhp, over double the ‘regular’ car’s 1,288bhp, from four electric motors (which utilise the world’s thinnest super-silicon steel – 0.1mm – in mass production), each of which can spin at up to 30,000rpm.

It’s also the first production car with a 1,200V ultra high voltage platform, up from the existing U9’s 800V system, which allows for a quicker adrenaline shot of electricity through the platform and in turn, power to the motors, and the new batteries discharge 10 times faster than a conventional EV battery.

Heat generation is also reduced by up to 67 per cent compared to the 800V platform at matching power outputs.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/yangwang-u9-xtreme-hits-308mph-becomes-worlds-fastest-ever-production-car

Wheels Mariënwaerdt 2025 in the Netherlands runs on the same days as Goodwood Revival Sept 12 - 14, and seems to have a similar event from what I see in this article, minus the racing

https://www.magnetomagazine.com/articles/wheels-marienwaerdt-2025-to-feature-concours-pre-war-sprint-and-trial-experience/

Bugatti restoration expert Scott Sargent started out on his mechanical career, at age 6, when his dad gave him an old Briggs & Stratton lawnmower to tinker with, and he got it running

“It had no blade and the motor wasn’t running. I took it apart with his help and figured out it had a stuck valve in it. Then I got it back together, tied a rope on it, and pulled—and the thing started. That was just amazing. That was kind of an awakening for me, bringing that engine to life.” says Sargent

His father was an enthusiastic collector of antique Fords who often took him and his brothers on outings to rescue another down-and-out vehicle. When Sargent was in fifth grade, his dad gave him a derelict two-door 1930 Ford Model A to tinker with.

“I worked on it for a few years and eventually made a doodlebug out of it—basically a big open go-kart. We could drive it around the field next to our house. But it was the history of the car that fascinated me as much as the mechanical issues, the fact that I could go to a book and see a picture of what it looked like when it was delivered.”

During high school, Sargent bought and restored a 1934 Ford pickup truck with money he’d earned from delivering newspapers and mowing lawns. He also started working part-time for David Patridge, a classic car restorer in Rumney, New Hampshire. After getting a business degree at the University of Arizona—paid for with earnings from a small auto shop he opened in Tucson while an undergrad—he made his way back to Vermont.

A visitor to his Bradford, Vermont shop in the early 1990s changed his trajectory. Peter Williamson, a noted Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center neurologist, avid car collector, and past president of the American Bugatti Club, who lived in nearby Lyme, New Hampshire, stopped in to invite him to see his 14 prewar Bugattis. At the time, it was one of the most significant private collections in the world.

two Type 57SC Atlantic, which many consider the ultimate Bugatti, survive. One of them was in Williamson’s garage the day Sargent went to visit. (Ralph Lauren owns the other.)

Though the physician had purchased the Atlantic in a Los Angeles auction in 1971 for $59,000, setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a car, it had come with a host of inauthentic parts and incorrect cosmetics. In 2000, Williamson asked Sargent to do a full restoration of his crown jewel.

When the Atlantic’s exacting overhaul was complete in 2003, Williamson entered it into the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where it won Best in Show. After Williamson died in 2008, his estate sold the Atlantic for more than $30 million to Rob Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune.

the shop's parts runner

https://newengland.com/yankee/magazine/vermont-bugatti-restoration-expert-scott-sargent/

Art Photography by Dingo

https://www.une-image-pour-rever.fr/photographies/lady-in-red

https://www.une-image-pour-rever.fr/photographies/envie-d-ailes

https://www.une-image-pour-rever.fr/collection-photographies/photographes/dingo https://www.dingophoto.fr/photos

Fritz Burkard drove his Type 57 Bugatti Atalante from Newport, R.I. all the way to Pebble Beach. Only three 1936/37 Bugatti Type 57 Atalante Roll-Top, exist, this one is worth about 20 million dollars +/- 10M. It might just be the most expensive car to drive coast to coast in decades, since Gurney drove his Ferrari Daytona, and the last real Bugatti to drive cross country in longer than that

Classic car collector Fritz Burkhard from Switzerland had the car restored by Sargent Metal Works in Vermont, before picking it up at the Audrain Auto Museum, and then promptly driving the rare classic across America for it to take part in the Pebble Beach Car Week.

Burkard did have a bit more support than most of us would have when making a cross-continent journey. 

His mechanic/restorer, and a crew member from the Audrain Automobile Museum supported the journey and documented it on Instagram, helping the Bugatti make the trip, along with going to war against an oil leak.

Burkard and the team from the Audrain Auto Museum in Rhode Island are driving about 300 miles each day.

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/fritz-burkard-drives-type-57-atalante-3000-miles-from-the-atlantic-to-the-pacific-to-compete-at-pebble-beach-concours-delegance

https://www.theautopian.com/one-hero-drove-his-vintage-bugatti-all-the-way-from-rhode-island-to-pebble-beach/

https://sargentmetalworks.com/current-projects

thank you MB 324 for the focus on Sargent Metalworks

1938 Bugatti Type 57G 'Tank 1936' recreation by Gentry Restorations

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9005826449536933&set=pcb.1299111064625737

https://www.facebook.com/groups/488831060084992

Bugatti ambulance? Huh, never heard of that before

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1159909942805627&set=pcb.1159909986138956

$4.6 Million Bugatti Tourbillon has these delivery wheels... and these get recycled to use on the next Bugatti delivered. Hell, I think they look incredibly good, and damn, why aren't they sold for my R/T? Shit, I need to reconsider my choice of rims!

 https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-4-6-million-bugatti-tourbillon-looks-certifiably-strange-on-steelies