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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 5 months

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What a difference 90 years makes juxtaposition of Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantiс, 1934 & Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 57 One of One, 2024. A one-off Chiron has been created that references the classic Type 57SC Atlantiс, an icon of the 1930s. The car has been commissioned as a 70th birthday present for a woman whose husband is also a Bugatti owner. She wanted her car to be a tribute to the Type 57SC Atlantiс and worked with Jascha Straub, Lead Designer Sur Mesure at Bugatti, to make her vision a reality

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mensfactory · 6 months

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Bugatti 'Aerolithe'

Only four Type 57 Atlantic Coupes were ever produced by Bugatti. One of them went to Parisian entrepreneur Jacques Holzshuh, before meeting its end on a railway crossing. Another was delivered new to Baron Victor Rothschild and is owned today by American collector Peter Mullin. A third is currently in the hands of Ralph Lauren, while the fourth? Nobody knows. One of the great mysteries of the car world is the whereabouts of ‘La Voiture Noire’: Jean Bugatti’s very own Type 57 Atlantic.

But the car that previewed the lot of them is the one above. Sort of. It’s a rebodied, restored Bugatti ‘Aerolithe’; a prototype first shown off at the 1935 Paris Motor Show.

A man named David Grainger from The Guild of Automotive Restoration was commissioned to recreate the car that paved the way for the most famous pre-war car ever built. He had the original chassis of the Aerolithe – number 57104 – as well as its original 3.3-litre eight-cylinder engine, and rear axle. But no body.

Indeed, David’s team at The Guild had but 11 photos to work from… and had to adhere to coachbuilding standards of the day. Which means they had to fashion the body from magnesium, which is – by all accounts – incredibly difficult to work with. They spent years riveting and shaping the panels into that simply gorgeous Aerolithe form.

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transportationlover3 · 8 months

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1939 Bugatti Type 57

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artdecoandmodernist · 1 year

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Bugatti Type 57 Grand Raid Roadster, 1935

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coolthingsguyslike · 1 year

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diabolus1exmachina · 2 years

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Bugatti Type 57S Atalante

The car in this photographs was the first completed Atalante to roll out of Bugatti’s Molsheim factory on 27 August 1936. The car had been ordered back on 29 December 1935 by a Marcel-Louis Bertrand, who needed a new Bugatti because he had crashed his previous one. The Type 57 cars were built on two styles of chassis; a standard chassis that produced a car of conventional height, and the 57S “Surbaissé” chassis which set the car low to the ground – lowering the centre of gravity and creating a sleek lowered appearance.The Type 57S chassis used an articulated front axle to provide a semi-independent suspension with semi-elliptic leaf springs, while the chassis rails on either side were made to increase in height passing alongside the middle section of the car until at the rear they were sufficiently deep that the rear axle could be made to pass through oval shaped holes cut into the chassis.This arrangement kept the reverse quarter elliptic leaf springs close mounted to the outer side of the chassis. It produced a very low slung and rigid chassis, a perfect combination for a high performance car.The brakes were mechanically actuated drums all around, mechanical brakes being Ettore Bugatti’s firm preference.

The engine for both the standard Type 57 and the lowered Type 57S was the 3.3 litre (3,257 cc) Bugatti DOHC straight eight which was also used in the Type 59 racing cars, so the Type 57 were indeed powered by a proven racing car engine. Because of the very low slung Type 57S chassis it was not possible to use a conventional sump mounted under the crankcase and instead a 20 litre dry sump was installed. Given that this was to be a luxurious road car the engine was fitted with gears to drive the camshafts from the rear of the crankshaft to reduce gear noise.

A four speed manual gearbox transmitted the engine’s power to the rear wheels.

In its standard naturally aspirated form as fitted in the Bugatti 57S the Bugatti straight eight produced 175 hp. There was also offered a Roots supercharger equipped version which boosted that power to 200 hp and enabled a top speed of 120 mph (190 km/hr).

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watchilove · 5 months

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The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ‘57 One of One’: homage to an icon

The Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, a timeless Jean Bugatti masterpiece now nearly 90 years old, has long captured the imagination of aesthetes and automotive enthusiasts and is still regarded as the most valuable and exclusive automobile in the world. Many of its design features − including the bolted fin that runs the length of its body − inspired Bugatti’s modern design DNA. But this car is not…