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Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« on: October 01, 2010, 07:43:55 AM »
Please identify this car for one point
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Re: YP 08
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2010, 06:15:22 PM »
Bugatti 251
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Re: YP 08
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2010, 07:19:50 PM »
Not a Bugatti 251.
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Re: YP 08
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2010, 09:28:23 PM »
So close . . . I believe this is in fact the Bugatti 252.
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Re: YP 08
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2010, 06:01:55 AM »
Yes !  :) One point for you.
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2010, 09:12:15 AM »
That's also a very nice "at speed" shot I had not seen before - very evocative of Bugattis in general.
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2010, 09:54:02 AM »
Looks very different to how it looks today, unless more than one was built?
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2010, 07:25:03 PM »
No. Actually it's a recent picture of the only one built.

Here is the original color picture from a magazine :

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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2010, 09:42:14 PM »
Hmmm. I always thought Bugatti ended in 1956.
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2010, 02:28:48 AM »
i think it's actually from 1954? Dord thid one look different to you? (different valance, different bonnet)
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2010, 01:58:42 PM »
The design of the Model 252 began in 1954, but the final prototype was completed in 1958.
Bugatti ended in 1963 when the company was taken over by Messier-Hispano-Suiza. The former Bugatti factory was reconverted to make aircraft landing gears.


Here is a rear view of the one and only original Buagtti 252. It looks it's not the same car. The other must be a replica. 
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Re: Solved - YP 08 : 1958 Bugatti 252
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2010, 12:36:37 PM »
I seem to have attatched to wrong image, here is a front view of the other car. I wonder if anyone knows the story behind this?
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