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1937 Bugatti Type 57 Coupé Ventoux Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2017-02-01 18:49 |
![[Image: bug2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/4290/bug2.jpg) Randsfjorden races 1955 - Bjørn Johansen #49 |
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◊ 2017-02-01 22:13 |
Type 57 S (but not Atlantic) with low headlights?? |
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◊ 2017-02-02 08:13 |
Looks to be a Ventoux coupe, one of the more common variants of the Type 57. Probably a regular 57 not an S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_57 Google 'Type 57 Ventoux' you will see both high and low lights. I suspect maybe the low lights are later models. -- Last edit: 2017-02-02 08:15:31 |
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◊ 2017-02-02 13:43 |
It's a late 1937 car supplied to Amsterdam car dealer, then went to Norway in 1947 where it still survives as immaculate restoration with A-21524 plate - Link to "www.dn.no" "Edward Sejersted Bødtker's 1937 Bugatti: 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Ventoux produced in December of 1937. The car was first sold to Van Ramshorst, a Bugatti dealer in Amsterdam, Netherland. It was used as a demonstration-car and received registration-number G-1. During WWII, the car was stored in an old church alongside many other cars. Norwegian shipbroker Edward Sejersted Bødtker bought the car through the French dealer Mortarini in Paris in 1947. Edward brought it to Norway with the Dutch licence-plate, and it didn't receive a Norwegian license plate until 1949. The car was then registered as A-21524. In 1950 Edward's Bugatti was entered in Gardermoen Racet. It was run by Tore Levorsby who ran his own garage and maintained the car at the time. Edward sold the car to Bjørn Johannessen for 6000 NOK in 1953. Bjørn used the old Bugatti as his daily driver, and in several ice-races. Bjørn's brother Dag was mostly the driver, while Bjørn and his other brother Brede operated as mechanics. Dag raced the Bugatti at Jahren-vannet in 1954, where it won its class, and took 1st place in the final heat. The same year the team also won Østensjøracet. In 1955 the old Bugatti won the ice-race at Randsfjorden thanks to home-forged tractor-chains on all four wheels." - from Link to "www.kustomrama.com" with a couple more pictures. |
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