Chassis Record · Road Cars

57119 Type 57

1934 Year Built

3 Events

11 Known Owners

Technical Dossier

57119

Engine Number 33

Year Built 1934

Coachwork Ventoux two-door four-seat coupe, factory body designed by Bugatti employee Joseph Walter; the first Ventoux built and the only Type 57 with a factory-fitted sunroof

Delivery Date 1934-06-02 (sale date in factory records; ordered 7 March 1934)

Invoiced To Jerome Wagner, brewer in Mutzig, Alsace, a close friend of Jean Bugatti; sold directly by the factory

Registration 7372-NV2 (Strasbourg, 14 May 1934); later 1175 AK 75 (Paris, 1951), FS-68-84 (Netherlands, 1965), 6967 TL 67 (France, 1984), 967 ZM 67 (1993), 1738 XV 21 (2008); Belgian registration at 2021 sale

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Description

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Provenance & Story

History

Ordered on 7 March 1934 by Jerome Wagner, a brewer in Mutzig and friend of Jean Bugatti, chassis 57119 received the factory Ventoux body designed by Joseph Walter, trimmed in Havane leather and finished in June 1934; the factory recorded the sale on 2 June 1934, Wagner having already registered it in Strasbourg as 7372-NV2 on 14 May. Wagner kept it until 11 July 1939, when it passed to Dr Pierre Muller of Strasbourg. It went to Garage Waeffler (Strasbourg) in 1949, to Bugatti trader Henri Meurdra in 1950, and on 14 June 1951 to Geo Lepere in Paris (1175 AK 75). Philippe Berlin of Neuilly-sur-Seine bought it in 1959 and…

Ownership History

Known Owners (11)

Jerome Wagner

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Exhibition & Racing

Events (3)

Restoration by van Ramhorst brothers

1965

restoration — Netherlands

International Bugatti Rally

1975

show — Netherlands

Bonhams, The Monaco Sale 'Les Grandes Marques a Monaco'

2021

auction — Fairmont Hotel, Monte Carlo

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Service Records & Coachwork

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Sources & References

Bibliography (3)

Photography

Photo Archive (1)

Chassis 57119 — photo: MPW57, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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