{"id":253165,"date":"2010-01-30T23:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T04:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/vintage-cars-classics-india\/74607-vintage-cars-news-abroad.html"},"modified":"2010-01-30T23:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T04:40:32","slug":"vintage-cars-in-the-news-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/253165","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Cars In The News Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><p>This Thread is for Vintage Cars in the news abroad. I thought it would be interesting to have a seperate thread considering there are a good number articles in the net. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>MODS please advice if this should be merged with another Thread.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Let me start with an interesting article on a Bugatti found in a lake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Cheers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>KPS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Article in Telegraph, UK<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Bugatti wreck too valuable to restore<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Lake-found Bugatti worth more than a roadworthy version. <\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>By Dave Selby <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Published: 5:54AM GMT 29 Jan 2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/iipcache\/136240.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Photo : Dave Selby<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The Bugatti will be kept in as-found condition by its new owner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A 1925 Bugatti that had languished in the depths of a Swiss lake for more than 70 years made waves when it surfaced at auction in Paris. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The 1,500cc four-cylinder Type 22 two-seater sold for a staggering \u00a3227,000 on January 23, far more than a fully restored car would be worth. Auctioneer Bonhams had only expected the fabulous, rusty relic to fetch \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The car, which was scuttled in the Thirties to avoid import duty, was bought by American Peter Mullin, who has the largest private Bugatti collection in the world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Acting on his behalf, Dutch dealer Jack Braam Ruben said: &quot;Anyone can buy a restored Brescia [Bugatti]\u0085 To us it is the ultimate sculpture, an automotive Dali or Monet, created by the world&#8217;s most fabulous automobile creator and completed by the greatest creator of all, mother nature.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The unique artefact will be displayed and preserved in all its glorious dereliction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Since the Bugatti broke the surface of Lake Maggiore in 2009 it has been making waves in another way \u0096 it has emerged that a car in a Japanese collection bears the identical chassis number. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Clearly someone has some explaining to do. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thread is for Vintage Cars in the news abroad. I thought it would be interesting to have a seperate thread considering there are a good number articles in the net. MODS please advice if this should be merged with another Thread. Let me start with an interesting article on a Bugatti found in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}