It Has Finally Come To Auction,

the Bugatti type 51 replica,

the owner was engineer Alan Riley who bought the car in 1987 and was convinced it was a real Grand Prix-winning Bugatti Type 51 worth up to £2million, but it appears it was probably made in the early 1980s by a character called Keith Butti of Upminster who has since become notorious for making a number of very convincing replica Bugatti's using a mixture of genuine and reproduction parts, but going back to this example the UK’s leading Bugatti expert David Sewell was brought in to establish the car's true provenance, He determined it is almost certainly a very skilfully executed replica, although it may contain parts of the Czaykowski car,

some time ago we featured the car in one of our posts, the thought being even though it was a replica it would still go for £100,000 or so, but at the auction James Dennison of Brightwells Auctioneers said: 'it sold to an English couple, they were very pleased - I think they’re going to go racing in it, but it will need some rebuilding first,' but what did it go for? a cool £270,000, not bad for a copy.