Hot Rods Bugatti with 32 Ford Roadster body

I like the concept but the car looks like it was designed by a committee that didn't meet very often to get all of the car flowing in one direction. Kind of like a 50's custom that was carried to six different shops to get various parts modified over a period of time and none of the parts blended in with the rest of the parts the other shop put on it very well.

 

Looks like some of you posting comments here are anti-foreign or just plain oblivious to the contribution other auto makers have made to the industry. Bugatti had more race wins than most of you had hot suppers. Street rodders and custom builders have copied Bugatti designs (the Atlantique) for decades. The one central rule of hot rodding is that there is no rules, right? Have an open mind.

 

It's a reproduction body, so it isn't a waste in my opinion, since anybody can have one at any time.It's not precious.

So, is this thing a freakin' Volkswagen or not?

 

s**** metal 48, are you going to be at the Springfield swap Saturday?

 

Who built it?

Looks like something Posies would do.... & I like it. It's different.

JH

 

No "metal man", I just had shoulder replacement surgery and will be laid up for awhile.. Hope you find a bunch at the swap meet...

 

I just hope your new shoulder wasn't manufactured after 1964 or imported from somewhere...be a shame to have you kicked out of the traditional part of the board!

 

HA! HA! ^^^ Good one.. I never thought to ask where the parts were from...

 

My shoulder doc is still out looking for a Bakelite socket for mine...I had to reject the modern **** he was going to use.

 

Go back and read post #16, it is about as far from a Volkswagen as you can get.

Roo

 

Have the dissenters considered the number of race wins Bugatti achieved? More than many of you had hot suppers. Bugatti's designs have been copied by hot rodders and customizers from Day One. I don't know whether some of you just hate furrin cars or oblivious to history. Either way, hot rodding has no rules, right? So let's keep an open mind.

 

Here's the flip side: rod ch***is with Bugatti body. http://www.pixacar.com/pin/5385/

 

very thoughtful execution.

 

That's SO wrong but kind of cool looking.

 

Go look at original type 44 and 49 pics on google...there are lots with fairly conventional roadster/cabriolet/coupe bodies. Some are a bit more antique, sort of reminiscent of late 20's Dodges IMHO, and some have early '30's look not too unlike a deuce. The body shown would pretty well blend into this crowd...
And, IMHO, a lot of the custom bodies are rather pedestrian in execution...unlike a deuce.
But, hey, they are just furrin cars with a lot of aluminum in the engine compartment, just like volkswagens...so why are we looking at this silly econocar here??

 

"a lot of the custom bodies are rather pedestrian in execution... unlike a Deuce." What planet are you living on??

 

Tmd

 

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On the NEXT Jerry Springer!![/size]

 

All you anti furrin dudes are gonna love this... http://www.pixacar.com/pin/13812/

 

Honestly, I like it okay. I take exception to the auction text that states the US has always looked to Europe for artistic expression...quite a few of the European coachbuilders used styling cues from sometimes pedestrian US cars.

I can love a design without obsessing on the subject of where it's from.

 

Wonder where the Bugatti body ended up? Turned into a doodlebug?

 

Rooman, there are a few guys on here that, well uh, nuff said.

 

Funny, I was just thinking it was kind of a waste of a bugatti...

 

How about a 9 liter straight eight Bugatti Royale with Packard body, built by Ettore Bugatti himself?

Now that's a hot rod!

 

I reckon that's cool. Plenty of these cars would have custom built bodies by now.
There was a type 35 Bug road racing here in Australia about 40 years ago with a hot flathead in it. Aparrently it really riled up the purists.

 

It's looks a fair lateral manner in which to temporarily get a fine sporting car out & about. Maybe a little ( & I mean a little) heavy, weight- wise. Wide angle photo is not easy to decipher. Nice comparison Rusty O.

 

Here, I hope, is a page of these big Bugattis with many different bodies, probably mostly period custom jobs:

https://www.google.com/search?as_st...tesearch=&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

Some are very well done indeed, some are rather fussy and/or silly attempts to look snooty, many are indeed in my opinion pedestrian...these look like they just sketched in the seats and people and made metal to cover them. Poor attention to curvatures, poor matches to the wild fender design, etc., just tin keeping the insides dry. Some of those would look reasonably at home on late 1920's American mid size cars, others just don't look like much of anything. The deuce shows LOTS more attention to the radii of every shape in the body and to visual flow than many of the duller Euro bodies on that page.

 

Bugattis werent really about anything as superficial as the styling, they were about engineering, innovation, machining, finish, ect. '32s were all about turning out a cheap, easy to service, basic car for the m***es, not that theres anything wrong with that. But its a WORLD of difference.
If there was a stipulation that niether car could be modified, and I was given the choice between a Bugatti and a '32 ford, not much doubt as to which I'd choose, but then, I like to drive.



Theres a school of thought that one of the factors leading to the post-war boom in hot rodding had to do with guys coming back from Europe having been exposed to cars like Bugattis. Young guys with a need for speed and performance were a whole lot less excited by a 4500lb road pillow with 180hp and a slush-o-matic after that.

 

Bugattis were also "coachbuilt" like most high-end cars in the twenties-thirties. What this means is that, in most cases, Bugatti had nothing to do with the styling, Bugatti would build the rolling ch***is, and deliver it to a coachbuilder of the customers choice. If the customer wanted "fussy and snooty" he chose the coachbuilder accordingly, if he wanted pedestrian, well, thats what he ordered.

 

Bugatti did have Jean Bugatti, Ettore's son.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bugatti

Who designed some of the stunningly beautiful Bugatti's that were built.