Classic Cars

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Maserati A6 1500GT vs Porsche 352 Gmund Coupè

 

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An extravagant Argentine museum (the first & last car)

In Europe and especially in South America, the car in each family took place only at the end of the 1950s.
For many people, before the WWII, the only car on which they could have get in was one of those that appear in the following pictures

 

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Buick Roadmaster 1948

 

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Buick Roadmaster Swdan 1949



47 pictures of this Buick are in this album

 

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Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 1957

 

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1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow

 

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Electric car

This electric hearse was built in 1927.
It is exhibited in the Museum of the Monumental Cemetery in Milan (Italy)

 

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This electric hearse was built in 1927.
It is exhibited in the Museum of the Monumental Cemetery in Milan (Italy)

The only way you'll ever see me in an electric car...

 

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1941 VW Beetle

 

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Buick Roadmaster 1941

 

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1974 Lincoln-based 'Bugatti'

Bugatti's own official history denies there were any production cars built between the 1930s and 1990s, and maybe good for reason. Real Bugattis or not, they don't match the brand's prestige image.

Before Bugatti was resurrected by Volkswagen, and even before Romano Artioli brought the brand back in 1991 with the EB110, two Californians built this car, a 1970s vision of French ultra-luxury.
Mike Sherman and Dave Kent built just two of these custom Bugattis off of 1973 Lincoln Continentals,and yeah, they're really Bugattis. At least, that's what it says on the front. Kent and Sherman claim to have bought the rights to the Bugatti name sometime in the early 1970s
They finished at least one of the Bugattis, and presumably it was Sherman and Kent who then displayed it outside the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 1976 with an asking price of $64,000 – again, more than four times the cost of the most expensive contemporary Cadillac, and more than six times the cost of a contemporary Lincoln Continental four-door.

30 pics and the story of this car are in yhis album

 

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Bugatti 101 C Exner Ghia 1965

 

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I don't know what that other monstrosity is, but the Exner Bugatti is indeed a true Bugatti and the last one ever built.

After WWII the Bugatti tried to produce cars again and developed the type 101 chassis based off the pre-war type 57 chassis. Seven type 101 chassis were built between 1951-52 and six were sold. In true Bugatti tradition, the six chassis sold were fitted with custom coachwork to the buyers specifications. Two other type 57 cars were converted to type 101 specs to make a total of 9 type 101 Bugattis.

The seventh unsold chassis was finally purchased by Virgil Exner in 1961 for the bargain price of $2500.

Exner designed the fabulous coachwork seen here and commissioned Ghia to build the body. Exner had hoped to revive Bugatti, but much like his Duesenburg attempt, the financing wasn't there.

I say the last "true" Bugatti because it was the last car made in the Bugatti factory. The new models are made by Volkswagon

 

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Ettore and Jean, sorry if you are watching that ! :blushing:

 

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Virgil Exner's influence can still be seen in the show cars of today...



Doesn't this concept Maybach 6 look like the evolutionary successor of the Exner Bugatti...

 

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Bugatti T 23 Brescia 1925

 

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Bugatti T 35A 1925

 

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Bugatti T 25 Grand Prix 1925

 

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Bugatti T 37 1926

 

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Bugatti T 38 1927