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    £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    01/02/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    So if it was "found" and they didn't pay anything for it...they could technically use this in the 24 hours of lemons! Bring it on, Brits!
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    Image of bdon bdon
    01/02/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    quoted from yahoo:


    "Harold Carr, a surgeon, apparently abandoned the rare Bugatti in his lock-up in northeastern Newcastle after buying it in the 1950s."


    The town it was in was newcastle. I didn't care until I remembered this jalopnik article,stating town "tyne" and then remembered I stayed in newcastle in 1996..somewhere in the same town was a 5 million dollar barn car...

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    01/02/09

    @bdon: Better get on the horn to the BBC, cause their story is wrong.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    Nice price or crack pipe?


    I dunno, even at $4M, it sounds pretty good...

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    can we do a special edition of "nice price or crack pipe" on this one?


    oh please, pretty please?

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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    Shame that they only found it now. If they had found it say 3 years ago before the financial mess we're in they could probably fetch a much higher asking price. Or they could hold on to it for another 10 years, turning down every offer thrown their way then sell it when people have money again.
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    Image of top-dead-center top-dead-center
    01/01/09

    @philibuster: New money has gone broke after being over-leveraged and trying to grab for the brass ring on the way around the carousel. Old money has probably had a hiccup or two over their accounts. Old-OLD money is doing just fine.


    Cars like this often get bought by old-OLD money. :-)

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    Image of junkman junkman
    01/01/09

    @top-dead-center: Exactly right. Blue chip cars like this are selling for record prices.
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    I guess first I need to find a barn.
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    Image of CopterBob CopterBob
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    It spent 50 years, unseen, gathering dust in an old barn, and is quite probably destined to see the next 50 years, unseen, in the equivalent of a much nicer barn.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    01/02/09

    @CopterBob: Hey, look on the bright side...less dust.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    I think the important thing about restoring something this old, after being stored in a damp garage for 50 years, is that you really CAN'T just buff it and start it right up. It will really need to be taken apart, inventoried, and each part restored before reassembly. Tough job, lots of time and coin. That would be beyond me.
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    Image of Rican5.0 Rican5.0
    01/01/09

    @DoctorNine:


    It's a slippery slope, I guess it depends on the true condition of the machine. There's an ever growing sector (see Hemmings) of the community that believes in preserving the "patina" of the cars.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/01/09

    @Rican5.0: That only practically applies to the body of the car, not the drivetrain. At the very least, we're talking about rebuilding the engine, transmission, probably the rear end... I won't go on.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    I just saw this on BBC and knew it had to be here already. And here it is. The guy also had an Aston and one or two other classics in there.


    Damn. It needs to be naptime or bedtime, one or the other.

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    Image of TheDanMan,Prefers Kilowatts to Horsepower TheDanMan,Prefers Kilowatts to Horsepower
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    I'd even have a molested one. Whatever that means.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/01/09

    @TheDanMan Is drinking beer in the hot sun..: I have a good guess.
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    Image of Rican5.0 Rican5.0
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    It's gonna be a damned shame once the over-restoring-over-correcting psychotics get done molesting it.


    They SHOULD just buff it out and get it running and NO. MORE.

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    Image of TheFishGuy TheFishGuy
    01/01/09

    @Rican5.0: Amen to that. Amen..
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    01/01/09

    @Rican5.0: Cars, and even old rare ones, should be driven instead of becoming musea collection pieces.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    01/01/09

    @TheFishGuy: The secret is to drink some water between champagnes, beers and whiskeys. I felt fine this evening when I woke up. My beer, wine and whiskey supplies can't say as much, though.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/01/09

    @Mike the Dog: I started to at first, but then things just got a little too hectic, and in my own stupidity, I figured I would just forego it as I was feeling okay at the time. After all, what was the worst that could happen?


    a gallon of gatorade and half a bottle of excedrin later....

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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    01/05/09

    @Rican5.0:


    Unfortunately for us, the guy with £5m gets to say what should happen to it.


    Perhaps we can use concentrated psi-power to make the right thing happen.

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    Image of tenbeers tenbeers
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    That will almost certainly buff right out.


    /super bad hangover

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/01/09

    @tenbeers:


    Seriously. No. More. Champagne. Ever.

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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    01/01/09

    @pauljones: Not the cheap "Champagne" drunk together with beer.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/01/09

    @pauljones:I had some really good sparkling wine from the Mendoza in Argentina. Brand was Tittarelli, extra brut. Made from chardonnay and pinot noir grapes. While technically not a Champagne, as it isn't from France, it sure was good. No headache either. Try some, it's worth a taste.
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    01/01/09

    @DoctorNine:


    Is there a certain store or website that you know of for it?

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    01/01/09

    @BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ - Why drive when you can ride?:


    No sir, that was pure champagne. The scotch reserves were running a little low.

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/01/09

    @pauljones: I just got it at my local corner niche import shop. I've had real good luck with Mendoza wines recently. The website for the vineyard is below:


    [www.tittarelli.com.ar]


    They make a pretty passable malbec vintage as well.

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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    Wait, don't tell me... The Bugatti was discovered by Britain's dustrag-wielding darlings Kim and Aggie whilst shooting an episode for the upcoming series "How Clean is Your Tyneside Country Manor House and Stables?", right...?
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    Image of crxtra crxtra
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    Now all it needs is a Cobra front, a Daytona rear, and a big ol' wing on the back and all the Jalopniks will just go cuh-RAZY!!!
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    Image of bzr bzr
    01/01/09

    @crxtra: Don't forget the window louvers, opera windows, fender vents, TURBO badges, rubber-band drivetrain, twin blowers, a rust patina, velour upholstery, Italian head gaskets, skull-driveshaft bumper stickers, glasspacks, Lambo doors, a Fiero chassis, a DAF hood ornament, and SLR Dude driving it into a palm tree with Nick Hogan riding shotgun!
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    01/01/09

    @bzr: Step One: Camino!
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    Image of Himelfarbinator Himelfarbinator
    01/01/09

    In reply to £3 Million 1937 Bugatti Found In British Garage After Almost 50 Years
    That car looks like it needs the ShamWoW applied to it!
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    Image of Benjamin Sketchler Benjamin Sketchler
    01/01/09

    @Himelfarbinator: Made in Germany, you know the Germans always make good stuff!
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    01/01/09

    @Benjamin Sketchler: Bugatti was a French company at the time.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01/01/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Was ShamWOW made by the French back then too?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    01/01/09

    @A strolling player got SMACKed: Was that what he was referring to? I apologize for not being up on my "As seen on TV" cleaning products.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01/01/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: I can't fault you for that. ShamWOW Guy seems to be the new Billy Mays, or something.
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