Sunken Bugatti sold

DARISC · 03-10-2010, 10:03 AM

Sunken Bugatti Sold | Art Knowledge News

Geronimo '74 · 03-10-2010, 10:08 AM

Cool, but if possible, it should be restored. IMO

Rednine11 · 03-10-2010, 10:25 AM

those are awesome but I never would have guessed it would bring that kind of money.

TGTIW · 03-10-2010, 10:28 AM

I thought you were refering to this one...

herr_oberst · 03-10-2010, 10:28 AM

I think it's beautiful. Seriously.

Christien · Christien's Garage

I thought it was the pelican-ized Veyron too

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

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Originally Posted by TGTIW

I thought you were refering to this one...

this JUAN now is equipped with DER SNORKEL!

tabs · 03-10-2010, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

this JUAN now is equipped with DER SNORKEL!

And was driven by a U BOOT commander....

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

wot?! No Plasma screen on that thang, no bling either!!
Send it to West Coast Customs, stat! It will be off the chain when they are done with it !

onewhippedpuppy · 03-10-2010, 12:55 PM

EZ Fixer!!!

DARISC · 03-10-2010, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by herr_oberst

I think it's beautiful. Seriously.

It truly is; that's some remarkable patina. But then Bonhams doesn't hire slouch photographers - probably ain't quite that purty in real life w/o the right backdrop and lighting.

speeder · speeder's Garage

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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

Does anyone know the real story of how this thing ended up in the lake? The story in SCM this month indicated that the owner tied the car to a chain and then dumped it in the lake to hide it from the tax man. I mean who hides an expensive luxury car in a lake?!? That story makes no sense to me. I can see maybe burying it, but dumping it in a lake?

-Wayne

As long as we don't make a Polack joke out of it, it's all good.

Paul K · Paul K's Garage

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Originally Posted by herr_oberst

I think it's beautiful. Seriously.

+1. I say leave it as is.

Dottore · 03-21-2010, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

Does anyone know the real story of how this thing ended up in the lake? The story in SCM this month indicated that the owner tied the car to a chain and then dumped it in the lake to hide it from the tax man. I mean who hides an expensive luxury car in a lake?!? That story makes no sense to me. I can see maybe burying it, but dumping it in a lake?

-Wayne

That's the true story. The owner was a Polish count or something—living in Italy. Import tax in those days was several times the value of the car—money he didn't have. So he put it in Lago Maggiore—intending to retrieve it when the tax man was off his back—but the war intervened and the car was forgotten in the lake.

Each to his own—but I don't get the beauty of the "patina" at all. To me it's a machine, and machines have a function. This is just a mess. I can't imagine paying big $ for this and then just leaving it at is.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Jesus. Has this guy never heard of the tried and true, *park it in your friend's garage* method of hiding a car? The bottom of a lake. Yeah, that makes sense.

slodave · slodave's Garage

A little more on the story and a short video showing it when it was out of the lake...

Mythical Sunken Bugatti To Sell for Â£85,000 | James Spotting

Neilk · 03-21-2010, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by speeder

Jesus. Has this guy never heard of the tried and true, *park it in your friend's garage* method of hiding a car? The bottom of a lake. Yeah, that makes sense.

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Originally Posted by speeder

As long as we don't make a Polack joke out of it, it's all good.

Hey Dennis,

I think you might have been on to something in your previous post