Sometime last week, in the Atlantic for Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., owned by Dr. Peter D. Williamson sold prized collector cars Bugatti 57SC late 1936 to between $ 30 million and $ 40 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction. The most valuable car ever sold at public auction was a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, which he sold in Maranello, Italy, in May 2009 for $ 12.2 million.
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| The 1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic - Photo Gooding and Company |
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - Right View |
Company, the car auction house headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and the sale was brokered by Bugatti Gooding. It is not uncommon for such transactions to remain private, as both sellers and buyers in general like to remain anonymous. However, the collector car world knew that after the death of Williamson in 2008, was only a matter of time before the car - widely recognized as the most desirable classic car in the world that would be sold.
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - Head Lamp View |
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - Left View |
David Gooding, president and founder of Gooding & Company in a statement, said "I am delighted to have found a new buyer for the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, one of the most important and valuable cars in the world, which was in a private collection and rarely seen during the last four decades, was a pleasure working with the Williamson family and trust in this important effort. "Gooding refused to confirm the identity of the buyer or price.
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - Turn Signal |
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic 57374 Blue - Rear View |
Built in Molsheim, France between the wars - near his home in Lyme, New Hampshire, Williamson, a noted neurologist and expert on epilepsy, has amassed a spectacular collection of Bugattis. Many of these cars were auctioned by Gooding Pebble Beach, California., Collector Over the weekend the annual classic car in August 2008. However, total sales of other Bugattis Williamson is then sold - about $ 15.5 million - half or less than the price of the Atlantic.
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| 1936 Bugatti Controling System Type 57SC Atlantic 573747 |
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| 1936 Bugatti Engine Component Type 57SC Atlantic 573747 |
"This car has everything to them," said Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. "In addition to technical sophistication, it was more avant-garde and futuristic car built so far." It incorporates all the ideals, the important thing for car enthusiasts, "said Kendall." It's beautiful, is good, very well built, and rare. "
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic blueprint |
The 57SC Atlantic Coupe was based on Aerolithe Electron, a car built to show the Paris Motor Show 1935. The car is reduced, pontoon fender design was the work of Jean Bugatti, son of founder Ettore Bugatti. The show car was composed of panels of magnesium that were difficult to weld, and for employees of the Bugatti car badge riveted seams. And while the three production Atlantics were built, capable of welding aluminum, the changes were kept as suggestion of a project. Two completely original surviving Atlantics: Williamson's car and other property of the designer Ralph Lauren.
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| 1936 Bugatti Interior Type 57SC Atlantic 573747 |
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - Auto Brand Ettore Bugatti |
The Mullin Automotive Museum, founded by the famous car aficionado Peter Mullin and housed in a facility formerly owned Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler, is dedicated to the preservation of French classic cars of the 1930s, including marques such as Delahaye, Delage and Talbot Lago. The museum opened in April.
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| 1936 Bugatti Interior Type 57SC Atlantic 573747 |
Price of the Atlantic, of course, surprising, even to historians and automotive experts. "He does the kind of recalibrate things in the sense that it is now official, certain cars have reached the level of art," said Kendall. "People will start paying attention. Obviously there are out there, knowing who like cars as much as they do art, fine wine, furniture and sculpture.
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| 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Blue - In Showroom View |
"When the first car sold for seven figures, no one could believe it," said Kendall. "Then one went for eight figures, now the Williamson Bugatti. The figure is nine cars out there. It's just a matter of when."
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A work of art - the Bugatti family were artists before they were car manufacturers and the legacy shows-the car cannot be viewed from any angle that is aesthetically unpleasing-this applies to the exterior and interior. The drawback about owning this vehicle would be the expense of its upkeep and the fact that you could never really use it much publicly and never park anywhere where it would be accessible to the public-unless in a controlled exhibition environment.
ReplyDeleteThe plus side would be that you would own one of the undisputedly great works of art of the 20th century - the century has other great artistic acheivements but their worth, to some, is debatable (Guernica, Sydney Opera House,Moore's sculpture). Few would dispute this car's transcendent exoticism and beauty.