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Title: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57 by Roger Tunesi
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 30, 2008, 05:05:54 AM
(http://www.autopuzzles.com/PP846.JPG)

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Title: Re: Puzzle #846
Post by: Paul Jaray on April 30, 2008, 10:42:20 AM
Hi, that is a Bugatti Type 57 by Tunesi
Title: Re: Puzzle #846
Post by: Tuckeroo on April 30, 2008, 03:08:23 PM
That may be correct, but I was going to say Bugatti Type 57 with body by Ghia (1953), if that would be more accurate.
Title: Re: Puzzle #846
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 01, 2008, 03:54:39 AM
Bugatti T57 is what I was looking for, the designer and builder ID's were an added bonus.  ;)
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57
Post by: D-type on May 02, 2008, 10:29:44 AM
Given the number of different variants of the T57, including the Atlantic coupé and the 'tank' sports/racer, I think that the designer/coachbuilder is part of the designation of any of them.  Particularly as this one is coachbuilt and hasn't got the Bugatti hallmark 'horseshoe' radiator. 

See ...no link... for the basic variations.
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57
Post by: Paul Jaray on May 05, 2008, 02:46:25 AM
This is the Bugatti #57385, Type 57s rebuilt in 1952 in this shape by Roger Tunesi, who later created the still-alive "Caravanes Jean et Jacques". As far as I know there is no connection with Giacinto Ghia.
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57
Post by: Paul Jaray on February 19, 2011, 07:45:02 PM
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Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57
Post by: woodinsight on February 20, 2011, 02:18:51 AM
Superb - those are the first good photos I've seen of this car. Thanks PJ.
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57
Post by: Carnut on December 08, 2011, 05:18:03 AM
Whilst searching for new puzzles I came across this picture (which is of course the same one as the puzzle car), which was described as a 1956 Ghia-bodied Bugatti!

More Web misinformation...!
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57 by Roger Tunesi
Post by: Carnut on June 16, 2014, 11:56:21 AM
Another site says that whilst it's often referred to as a T-57 that's wrong and it's actually a T-50 rebodied in 1952...
Title: Re: Puzzle #846 - Solved! Bugatti T57 by Roger Tunesi
Post by: grobmotorix on June 09, 2017, 03:51:48 PM
No visible puzzle photo...

A rather unknown photo of the Tunesi Bugatti: