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#A010 by Amsterdam SOLVED Jean Bugatti Monument Duppigheim
« on: March 17, 2010, 04:32:14 PM »
Not a car this time but a historic automotive monument.
The question for a point is:For who and which event is this monument en what's its location?
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Re: #A010 by Amsterdam
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2010, 03:07:08 PM »
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Re: #A010 by Amsterdam
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2010, 03:28:17 PM »
It's not the spot where James Dean was killed in his Porsche 550 Spyder is it?
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Re: #A010 by Amsterdam
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2010, 03:53:31 PM »
No, but you are right about the part that somebody died there in a car crash.
It was no moviestar though. It was somebody of importance in the auto industrie.

That is why it is a historic automotive monument ;)
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Re: #A010 by Amsterdam
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2010, 08:44:43 PM »
Jean Bugatti?
There's a monument on the road near Duppigheim in Alsace, where he was killed.
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Re: #A010 by Amsterdam
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2010, 02:38:53 PM »
Yes! you have found the correct answer.

On the 11th of august  1939 Jean Bugatti crashed near Duppigheim while test driving a Bugatti 57C. He crashed into a tree while trying to avoid a drunken bicyclist.
He was only 30 years old.
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