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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    08/04/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    That... Is... Nice...
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    Image of bygeorge bygeorge
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    You won't see the car this weekend because it was featured in the 2007 Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance.

    I am not sure of Meadow Brooks' exact rules, but most concours events will not allow the same car to be shown again, or at least until after a 5 or 10 year waiting period, so each year's show is fresh and new to returning spectators.

    See ya' in Rochester Hills this Sunday!
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    Image of geschmidtt geschmidtt
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    Saoutchik bodied cars are all better than sex, or at least the kind I am getting lately....

    Regardless, beautiful.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    You know why it's front wheel drive? It's French, that's why.

    Pierre dropped the engine into the chassis backward. He nearly dropped his cigarette in dismay.

    "Zut alors! Mais ze engine, she is zo freekeeng heavy, oui? J'install le transmission dans l'avant. Tout d'accord!"

    It is the French way to simply accept things as they are, and move on.
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    Image of coupeZ600 coupeZ600
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    I bet being the Driver of this car needed the skills of a fighter-pilot to get that thing to it's destination and back in '32. Whenever my brothers or I bitch about the conditions of the Interstates, my Dad always pipes in, "YOU LITTLE PUSSIES! (he always speaks in all-caps/deaf), "SHOULDA' SEEN THE ROADS WHEN WE GOT BACK FROM THE BIG ONE, LOSE A TRAIN IN THE BIG POT-HOLES.... BUT IKE FIXED 'EM FOR YA, AND HERE YOU ARE, WHININ' AND COMPLAIN' ABOUT BRIDGES AND SHIT. HELL, WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BRIDGES........... (ad infinitum).

    You'd have to be a bad-ass to drive this thing around today without ripping it's guts out on some curb-cut, much less back in '32.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    07/31/09

    @coupeZ600: Padre-Z600 would be welcome on my lawn.
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    08/01/09

    @skitter: He's a WWII vet and quite esteemed by the community, but loves to sit on his porch and bag on how fat people have gotten.
    "LOOK AT THAT ONE, TWO RACCOONS FIGHTING OVER A BASKETBALL!"
    Pssst, dad, i think they can hear you.
    "WHAT DID YOU SAY..... I DON'T CARE, HE/SHE/IT IS STILL FAT!!!

    Whenever I really get going on a rant, my wonderful wife can take it down a notch while still giving me the highest possible praise, "You're just like your Father!' A kick in the gut and a pat on the back at the same time.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    If Batman and Jay Gatsby had a love child, he would grow up to drive this.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    This is amazing. Absolutely amazing. I'm not big on prewar cars, by and large, but I am always willing to make exceptions -- this actually makes a Duesenburg look positively frumpy.

    For what it's worth, the FWD drivetrain actually makes it more exotic, given the era.
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    Image of alexanderjames alexanderjames
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    Oddly enough the interior is finished in dalmatian hide.
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    Image of Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse Rockford Brodie and the Masters of the Hooniverse
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV

    I can't shake the feeling that I've seen this car somewhere before...
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    "...only trotted out for the media..."

    Great. So now the proles not only 'can't touch', they (we) 'can't look'. I'm surprised we're even allowed to know of this vehicle's existence-surely it's Untouchable and Unlookable Beauty may spark Class Warfare, by opening a Pandora's Box of resentment.

    BTW, if there is a revolution, I get first dibs on this car.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    Normally I do not care to much for pre WW II cars, but I tried to comment this, but what can you say, it´s all there in the pictures.
    Double spares, low (realy low) roof line, one of a kind, black red and chrome, V-12. All this 60 years before Bajito y Suavecito became popular.
    Speechless.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV

    A supremely gorgeous car, and one of only six Buccialis made after 1926. Look how low it is compared to the adjacent Duesenberg. This wasn't even the most radical Buc made - the picture is of a 1930 16-cylinder Double Huit.
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    Image of petersterncan petersterncan
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    Given that people drive on the right side in France, anyone notice that the steering wheel is on the WRONG side?

    Maybe that's part of the reason they had a hard time making sales.
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    tonyola promoted this comment petersterncan was starred petersterncan was unstarred
    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/31/09

    @petersterncan: Until shortly after World War II, the style for French luxury car makers (Delage, Delahaye, Bugatti, Voisin) was to put the steering wheel on the right. It was supposedly easier to drive in the mountains. The idea died with the death of these luxury makes.

    These Buccialis were made mostly to showcase the Bucciali brothers' FWD technology. The brothers were less interested in making cars than selling the rights/patents to a major manufacturer for a very handsome price. They didn't succeed despite the beautiful cars.
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    Image of ciscokidinsf ciscokidinsf
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    Whoa. This was like the Bugatti Veyron of that age. But even more Beautiful and Powerful
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    07/31/09

    In reply to Meadow Brook Concours Preview: 1932 Bucciali TAV
    The factory truck-dubs actually work. The front-wheel drive... well, I can forgive it here.
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