57140 Type 57
57140
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History
The body was completed on 7 June 1934 and the car was sent by rail to Marseille on 8 June 1934 for first owner Jean Storione, of a Marseille flour-milling family. The engine was returned to the factory under warranty in October 1934 after a piston seizure. Physician Dr Gustave Cousin owned the car in Marseille for thirty years (1936-1966), re-registering it 7983 AQ 13 in 1954. After brief ownership by Jean Brignone and collector Antoine Raffaelli, architect Daniel Guidot acquired it in spring 1967 (registered 71 GU 78). It then passed to Jean Vilette (c.1974), Walter Metz in Germany (listed by the German Bugatti Club in 1989), the Feierabend trade…
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