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57140 Type 57

1934 Year Built
5 Events
11 Known Owners
Technical Dossier

57140

Year Built 1934
Coachwork Coach
Delivery Date 1934-06-08
Invoiced To Jean Storione, Marseille, via Bugatti agent Gaston Descollas (Societe Marseillaise, 42 Avenue du Prado)
Original Customer Jean Storione, of a Marseille flour-milling family
Registration 1034 CA 7 (Marseille, 1934)
Description

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Provenance & Story

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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Ownership History

Known Owners (11)

Jean Storione

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Exhibition & Racing

Events (5)

Engine returned to factory under warranty
1934
restoration — Bugatti works, Molsheim
Offered at 40th Essen classic show
2007
show — Essen, Germany
Artcurial Retromobile sale
2024
auction — Paris, France
Comprehensive restoration
2024
restoration

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