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细节
1934 BUGATTI TYPE 57 GALIBIER SPORTS SALOON
FACTORY GALIBIER COACHWORK
EU Registered
Chassis No. 57154
Engine No. 29
Black and yellow with black leather interior
Engine: eight cylinders in-line, twin overhead camshaft, 72mm by 100mm, 3,257cc, 125bhp at 4,500rpm; Gearbox: intergral constant-mesh four speed manual and reverse; Brakes: mechanical all round; Suspension: leaf springs front and rear to beam front and live rear axle. Right-hand drive.
The Type 57 may be seen as the considered response of Ettore Bugatti and his capable son Jean to the rapidly changing circumstances they faced in the 1930s. With a powerplant giving 125bhp at 4500rpm, it was powerful enough to offer traditional Bugatti levels of performance even when the chassis was equipped with a luxurious four-door saloon body. It was given a relatively easy-to-use constant-mesh gearbox with centre change and had superlative mechanical brakes. Earlier Bugatti fast-touring designs had legendary maintenance costs; the Type 57's engine had plain bearings throughout, offering greatly extended engine life between overhauls. With a range of glamourous body styles built in the Bugatti factory's own body shop at Colmar and given names invoking Alpine adventures, the car sold briskly through the 1930's, with 750 of all varieties built before production ceased in 1940.
This nicely preserved example of an original early Type 57 was delivered new in 1934 to the Emil Graf, a wealthy industrialist based in Nantes, France. It was fitted from new with the factory's grand touring Galibier four-door pillarless berline (saloon) body, a well-balanced example of current French taste set off by elegant detailing and inspired use of Jean Bugatti's favoured dual colour scheme. Thoughtful touches include doors which overlap on the centre shut line, making it impossible to open the rear ones unless the front doors are open.
Mr Graf retained the car into the 1950s, and must be largely responsible for the well-preserved order in which it has survived to today. In the 1988 Bugatti Owner's Club register, the Type 57 is recorded as having been imported to the U.K. in 1968 and having remained there for many years, passing through owners' Boyer, P. Couty, A. Spitz, P. Maragonis and then to M. S. Wilson. More recently it was sold into European ownership once more, and has seen active rally and tour use over the last few years.
A handsome, entry level Type 57 Bugatti.
FACTORY GALIBIER COACHWORK
EU Registered
Chassis No. 57154
Engine No. 29
Black and yellow with black leather interior
Engine: eight cylinders in-line, twin overhead camshaft, 72mm by 100mm, 3,257cc, 125bhp at 4,500rpm; Gearbox: intergral constant-mesh four speed manual and reverse; Brakes: mechanical all round; Suspension: leaf springs front and rear to beam front and live rear axle. Right-hand drive.
The Type 57 may be seen as the considered response of Ettore Bugatti and his capable son Jean to the rapidly changing circumstances they faced in the 1930s. With a powerplant giving 125bhp at 4500rpm, it was powerful enough to offer traditional Bugatti levels of performance even when the chassis was equipped with a luxurious four-door saloon body. It was given a relatively easy-to-use constant-mesh gearbox with centre change and had superlative mechanical brakes. Earlier Bugatti fast-touring designs had legendary maintenance costs; the Type 57's engine had plain bearings throughout, offering greatly extended engine life between overhauls. With a range of glamourous body styles built in the Bugatti factory's own body shop at Colmar and given names invoking Alpine adventures, the car sold briskly through the 1930's, with 750 of all varieties built before production ceased in 1940.
This nicely preserved example of an original early Type 57 was delivered new in 1934 to the Emil Graf, a wealthy industrialist based in Nantes, France. It was fitted from new with the factory's grand touring Galibier four-door pillarless berline (saloon) body, a well-balanced example of current French taste set off by elegant detailing and inspired use of Jean Bugatti's favoured dual colour scheme. Thoughtful touches include doors which overlap on the centre shut line, making it impossible to open the rear ones unless the front doors are open.
Mr Graf retained the car into the 1950s, and must be largely responsible for the well-preserved order in which it has survived to today. In the 1988 Bugatti Owner's Club register, the Type 57 is recorded as having been imported to the U.K. in 1968 and having remained there for many years, passing through owners' Boyer, P. Couty, A. Spitz, P. Maragonis and then to M. S. Wilson. More recently it was sold into European ownership once more, and has seen active rally and tour use over the last few years.
A handsome, entry level Type 57 Bugatti.
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