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    Bugatti Type 41 1927-1933

    Bugatti T41 Royale
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    Which one of the 4 (I think thats how many there were) is that one?

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    Thats one HUGE car!!!

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    There was 7 made.
    Top 10:
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    4) Ferrari F430
    5) Ferrari Enzo
    6) Corvette Z06
    7) Lamborghini Gallardo
    8) 1967 AC Cobra 427
    9) 1971 Hemi Cuda
    10) Mercedes SL55 AMG

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    And NOBODY has a picture of all seven of them at Concours like 10 or 20 years back?

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    Quote Originally Posted by furious_fiero
    There was 7 made.
    but they found like two or three only.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScionDriver
    And NOBODY has a picture of all seven of them at Concours like 10 or 20 years back?
    6 were built, not 4 or 7, this one (roadster) was built for armand esders. it was the most luxurious car in the world - 12.7 litre engine and nearly 300 BHP. imagine it was 6.5 metres long!
    unfortunately, those cars were one of the reasons of bancrupcy of the manufacturer, the cost of building them was very big and nearly noone wanted to buy them. so after the bancrupcy the models that weren't sold as a car, were sold in parts and now you can find some of the parts in old trains and other machines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dydzi
    6 were built, not 4 or 7, this one (roadster) was built for armand esders. it was the most luxurious car in the world - 12.7 litre engine and nearly 300 BHP. imagine it was 6.5 metres long!
    unfortunately, those cars were one of the reasons of bancrupcy of the manufacturer, the cost of building them was very big and nearly noone wanted to buy them. so after the bancrupcy the models that weren't sold as a car, were sold in parts and now you can find some of the parts in old trains and other machines.
    Also note the absence of headlights; the owner never drove at night. Sadly this car got destroyed, so only five original cars survive today. There is a replica of this car in the Schlumpf museum in Mulhouse, France.

    These cars were built in the late 1920s, and were not the reason for the company's bankruptcy after the War. With the Type 57 Bugatti had one of their best periods in the 1930s.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wouter Melissen
    These cars were built in the late 1920s, and were not the reason for the company's bankruptcy after the War. With the Type 57 Bugatti had one of their best periods in the 1930s.
    well i'm not sure i can fully agree to that, if you don't believe me you should believe what bugatti's official website says:

    Quote Originally Posted by BugattiCars.de
    [...]Unfortunately, this legendary automobile came into the market at the precisely wrong point in the history, just as the world was entering Great Depression. With only three of these fantastic automobiles sold, the "Royale" almost financially ruined Bugatti and his company [...] During the difficulty years of the Great Depression, Ettore Bugatti won the contract to build a new high speed train for French goverment. Bugatti began manufacturing railcars, while at the same time, fiding a use for the expensively developed, yet technically superior engines of the "Royale". By installing this technologic masterpieces in trains, he not only satisfied the French goverment, but was able to stabilize his company's shaky financial standings
    12 cylinders or walk!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wouter Melissen
    Sadly this car got destroyed,
    41111 wasn't destroyed... It received a new coachwork by Binder, between 1934-1938



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    Good constructive commentary guys. You've done your research! Got loads of T41 pics
    Incidentally, the chap in the picture posted by Matt is Jean Bugatti, who designed most of the early cars coachwork. He was killed in an accident testing one of the speedsters.
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    @Glisson, may I remind you that this is the High-Res hideout, and that your pictures do not match the 1024* criteria.

    No hard feelings intended

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    Cool, where do I post low res? Unfortunately a lot of the historic Bug pics are original obviously low res but also very interesting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Glisson
    Cool, where do I post low res? Unfortunately a lot of the historic Bug pics are original obviously low res but also very interesting.
    Anywhere else in the forums is fine, preferrably Multimedia or Euro or Classic.
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    Classic sounds good
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