1936 Bugatti Atlantic - World's Most Expensive Car Sells for $30 Million

09.05.10

Gooding wouldn’t reveal the price secured by the old owners, the dearest of Dr. Peter D. Williamson, a Yale neurologist, epilepsy superior and vintage car collector who died at his to the quick in New Hampshire in June 2008. But the Stockade drive crazy Street Journal reported the agency sold to the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Ca., for between $30 million and $40 million, citing a himself familiar with the transaction. New York Day after day News

Gooding says the Atlantic was an automobile derived from Bugatti’s original Aerolithe Electron Coupé that caused a coup de th when it was unveiled at the 1935 Paris Auto Salon. Bugatti later built only three Atlantics, each one different from the next, but this 1936 car (chassis #57374) is the first in the series and its documented significance, originality and restoration has been revered by enthusiasts throughout the excellent.

Formerly the coveted pillar of the period-renowned Williamson Bugatti Aggregation, the Atlantic was the 2003 Pebble Strand Concours d’Gentility best in Show car. USA Today

Source: Auto Racing Daily

Bugatti - News

SSC Ultimate Aero II is Awesome I4U - Sep 06, 2010 Motorward (blog)If you are a fan of go-go cars, you may know that the Bugatti Veyron Wonderful Sport is the current fastest car in the exultant with a top speed of 268mph. SSC Terminating Aero II Aims For 275 MPHSSC End Aero II: Red, white and smutty Bugatti killerSSC Ultimate Aero New Crop: Built To Destroy Bugatti Veyron Wonderful Sport  - -all 17 rumour articles »

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Goes Public Inside Line - Aug 18, 2010 USA TodayBugatti describes its new Veyron 16.4 Wonderful Sport as "the climax of the Veyron series." It boasts 1183 horsepower and 1106 beat into rid-feet of torque. 268-mph Bugatti Veyron Wonderful Sport makes US sales debutNew Foremost Sport Edition of Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Unveiled at The Quail101 Years Of Bugatti Cars At Monterey 2010 - -all 54 tidings articles »

Designing A Bullet: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Wall Street Journal (blog) - Aug 24, 2010 USA TodayIn the prove of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Wonderful Sport, huge walloping buckets of Euros were required to repulse an already fast car – 253 mph was the “paradigm” Bugatti, Shelby strive to be speed kings of the roadBugatti Veyron goes out in excellent styleDriving the SSC Ultimate Aero, cosmos's second fastest car - -all 10 hearsay articles »

The Most Expensive Car in the World! A Bugatti at the Mullin Automotive Museum! Huffington Post (blog) - Aug 25, 2010 The 'Mona Lisa' of Cars, the 1936 Bugatti Prototype 57SC Atlantic, the Most Expensive Car in the Wonderful! What makes a car worth $35 million? Outstanding Obsessionall 5 news articles »

Collector Pays More Than $30 Million for 1936 Bugatti: Video Bloomberg - Aug 25, 2010 25 () -- 's Julie Hyman reports on an anonymous first-rate car collector's foothold of a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic for $30 million. and more »