Chassis Record · Road Cars

57106 Type 57

1934 Year Built

3 Events

11 Known Owners

Technical Dossier

57106

Year Built 1934

Coachwork Two-door four-seat coach by Gangloff of Colmar (body no. 76 in the Gangloff log) - the first four-seat Gangloff coach on a Type 57 chassis

Colour red

Delivery Date June 1934 (rolling chassis driven from Molsheim to Gangloff, Colmar, 12 June 1934)

Invoiced To Fernand Leyda, Bugatti agent in Toulouse, for his client Jean Baylet, mayor of Valence d'Agen

Registration 1763 YS 1 (Tarn-et-Garonne, 12 June 1934); later 7770 FS 3 (1935), 2823 GA 7 (1935), 2930 DB 4 (1945)

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Description

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Provenance & Story

History

Chassis 57106 was ordered in spring 1934 by Fernand Leyda, Bugatti's Toulouse concessionaire, for Jean Baylet, the young mayor of Valence d'Agen, who paid 60,800 francs on 29 May 1934. On 12 June 1934 a factory driver took the rolling chassis to Gangloff in Colmar for its pre-series coach body, and the car was registered 1763 YS 1 in Tarn-et-Garonne. It passed on 11 April 1935 to Raymond Grillon (Gironde, 2823 GA 7), returned to Leon Pierron's Bordeaux garage in June 1939, and was sold to Paul-Louis Bricq in December 1945 (2930 DB 4). Post-war it went through Jean Danis of Versailles (1946), Edouard Pradel of Paris (1950), Jean-Paul Guillemot (1962),…

Ownership History

Known Owners (11)

Jean Baylet

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Exhibition & Racing

Events (3)

Body completed by Gangloff, Colmar

1934

show — Gangloff works, Colmar, France

Repaint by carrosserie Lecocq

2000

restoration — Saint-Ouen, France

Artcurial Retromobile sale

2017

auction — Retromobile, Paris, France

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Service Records & Coachwork

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Sources & References

Bibliography (3)

Photography

Photo Archive (1)

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