OT...Buggati fishing

1925 Buggati fished out of a Swiss Lake.

http://www.bugattibuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1520&sid=ffe3788d94c262ddc076a6b49a6881ef

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/1925-brescia-bugatti-found-in-swiss-lake-8640.html

 

That'll buff right out!

Nice "catch"!

 

Did you read the Babel fish translation?? Yesh Mr Faulty........me speak englis, vewwy good.

 

Probably held up better than the car they buried in Tulsa.

 

DAMN! Nice find, hope they post more updates! Someone posted that they think it is a Type 23 Bresia model. That is the SHOC 16 valve engine with the "Banana" tappets. We find Civil War ironclads they find Bugattis, nice catch.

 

that made my day.

 

Is that Jay Leno on the shore waiting with a transporter?

 

What Iron Clad!!?? Was it another Cussler find??
Doc.

 

You guys wear me out with this 'O/T' buisness, but man I wish I'd found it.

 

There, all you people bitching about "BARN Finds" should be happy now.

 

Both lived in about the same amount of water!!

 

"Ran when parked"

 

Probably running when parked. I'm guessing someone got ginned up and thought it would be a swell idea to take his Bugatti out for a spin on a (not quite) frozen Swiss lake.

 

Doesn't look like trhey offloaded it from a Barge or anything so maybe it was just off of the boat ramp. A lot of people dumped stuff or destroyed it before the Nazis took over just so they would not get it. I'm wondering if that was what happened here. Maybe they thought they could pull it back out after the war but they never made it to the end of the war.

 

cool, how did it end up there and what's it worth

 

Switzerland was neutral, don't think the Nazis messed with them too much.

 

Rough value restored would be sokewhere between $100,000 and $150,000. It's not one of the super high dollar models. But parts are just expensive. Somebody will want to save that car though, even though I think it would make a great addition to any museum in preserved "as found" condition. I'd want to see it.

 

Lake Maggiore is mostly in Italy with just a little tip right over the border. Likewise the town of Ascona is just a few miles over the border into Switzerland too. They never said what part of the lake the car was found in. However, if someone was making a run for it they could cross the border and ditch the car there.

 

Second article says the car is unrestorable, what a pack of wimps.

 

To get back to tech...What bait were they using???

 

Jim Sibley would have that back on the road by Friday.

 

Yeah, I guess everyone needs a slow week every now and then..........
Doc.

 

Man what a cool find.Bugatti made some great cars.

 

If I use blue cheese for bait , I wonder if I can catch a Delahaye ?

 

LMAO!! will colston-bassett stilton catch me a bottom feeding 3 litre?

 

Small hook w/some vintage brake cable?

 

talked to my father, he noted that early lit mentions more than one car "falling off" the barges that ferried people and other things across the lakes. If you look at the pics...the car was very close to a ramp...

 

Was it found right next to some barrels of German 'Heavy Water?'

 

It came out in one piece, how unrestorable can it be?

 

well it is a boat tail !