Some pictures of Diana and Myself, where we now live and places around us, things that we find interesting, amusing or just plain weird!
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Some Time Ago I Posted About A Long Lost Bugatti Found In A Garage,
well it finally came to auction,the 1937 Bugatti Type 57S was found at the home of Dr Harold Carr amid piles of medical machinery, 1,500 beer steins, thousands of receipts and even a World War Two spy drone, the car was originally owned by racing enthusiast Earl Howe, who was the first president of the British Racing Driver's Club, he took delivery of the sporty two-seat Atalante after it was completed in 1937 and kept it for eight years, after Earl Howe sold it, it changed hands a couple of time before Dr Carr bought the car in 1955 from Lord Ridley, a member of the Northumberland gentry, Dr Carr, an orthopaedic surgeon who served as an army doctor during World War Two and also became a keen flier, bought the vehicle in 1955 for £895 - the equivalent of £15,500 today,
the vehicle was bought by a telephone bidder when it went under the hammer at Bonhams' Retromobile car show and sale in Paris for £3,043,293, why is it that I never find anything like this? I suppose it would help if I had some rich relatives!
the 1937 Bugatti Type 57S was found at the home of Dr Harold Carr amid piles of medical machinery, 1,500 beer steins, thousands of receipts and even a World War Two spy drone, the car was originally owned by racing enthusiast Earl Howe, who was the first president of the British Racing Driver's Club, he took delivery of the sporty two-seat Atalante after it was completed in 1937 and kept it for eight years, after Earl Howe sold it, it changed hands a couple of time before Dr Carr bought the car in 1955 from Lord Ridley, a member of the Northumberland gentry, Dr Carr, an orthopaedic surgeon who served as an army doctor during World War Two and also became a keen flier, bought the vehicle in 1955 for £895 - the equivalent of £15,500 today,
the vehicle was bought by a telephone bidder when it went under the hammer at Bonhams' Retromobile car show and sale in Paris for £3,043,293, why is it that I never find anything like this? I suppose it would help if I had some rich relatives!
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