I’ll wait until I can get a left hand drive version...
Got a link without the giant popup in Italian, trying to make me signup?
What’s with the camber in the 2nd pic? Engine removed?
Did they check Leno’s garage?
How many cup holders?
In one of those car barns, I’ll bet
A Parisian businessman owned one of his cars, but reported having trouble starting it on cold days.
His numerous letters to Mr. Bugatti went unanswered for an extended length of time.
A business trip took the gentlemen to Strasbourg and while there he made the short drive to the Bugatti factory, where he presented himself to the secretary and demanded a meeting with Mr. Bugatti.
Not having an appointment, the man was kept waiting. Finally, Mr. Bugatti was leaving for lunch, the man stopped him and explained who he was and started to elaborate on the issue.
Mr. Bugatti stopped him: "Yes, I know the issue. You cannot start my car on cold days without some difficulty. Surely sir, if you can afford a Bugatti, you can afford a heated garage.
LOL
another interesting missing car story
“Mercedes buried in California lawn linked to former homeowner with history of arrests: ‘Checkered history’”
I have it.
Mounted a snow plow on the front.
The back was too low to mount my gun rack so had to put that in a different place.
Put a really nice set of horns on the hood .
Cute li’l thang!
It’s in my garage.
![Bugatti Veyron SS [monster truck] for Spin Tires](https://cs2.worldofmods.com/screenshots/f80ce/2016-11/original/a7f75778d4078a79fa5ea6782f3b7f83d8a39a3f/212369-SpinTires-2016-11-05-18-44-16-241.jpg)
Using weight and original price as a reference, I suspect that the Ford Pinto with 2.3L engine manufactured in Lima, Ohio, was the world’s most expensive car.
The 2.3L was a slug that could have been - early on - a blast, but the Ford Finance Committee got in the way.
Air Research was supplying turbo’s, and Ford was testing the turbo-charged engine in the Pinto and what would beome the Ford Mustang II.
With the 2.3LT, the cars were fun. (Note: The original Pinto, sans exhaust and big bumpers weights, using the 1.6L engine from Europe, was actually fun when wound up.)
But the Finance Committee decided, that the turbo-charged 2.3LT would not sell.
So the Pinto ended up with the 2.3L slug, with an added executive touch:
The Finance Committee figured that an oil supply hole in the connecting rod, could be eliminated, saving some money per rod per engine per car . . .
And so it was.
Except, many of the engines manufactured during that fiasco - years around 1974 - did not last as cylinders “burned up,” because of cylinder wall damage.
Customers would bring their Pinto into a Ford dealership and report:
“The engine runs fine, but when the car tries to get up to speed on the highway - especially into the wind - the car can barely do 50, and days later, 40, then 25! Which is how I got here with this . . . thing.”
As the cylinder compression ratio of one or more of the 4 cylinders, bottomed out.
Before Ford succeeded with the 2.3LT in the Mustang and Thunderbirds sales (1980’s) that were popular initially in the South, I would visit a small foundry just north of downtown Detroit. I had some aluminum prototype thing being developed. And I found some experimental 4-cyl double-over-head cam shaft Ford test engines in the works.
I was glad to see that progress.
Ugly.
Beautiful car.
It’s a piece of art.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1936-bugatti-type-57-ventoux/
This is a link to another Bugatti that is for sale as we speak. It is on auction at Bringatrailer.com and is already at $100,000 with days to go.
Personally, I prefer the Aerolithe.
Looks like an early Batmobile.🤔