Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 088 - 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Aerolithe

[sixtee5cuda]

For one point, provide the year, make, and model of this sleek coupe.

[Allan L]

It's a repost, but since it was five years ago I'd let it run for Rookies and Experts and merge when it's solved.

[sixtee5cuda]

Up!  Time for an expert opinion.

[Craig Gillingham]

This is a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe.

[sixtee5cuda]

It is a Bugatti Type 57.  It is not an Atlantic, it is not from 1936.

 

[Craig Gillingham]

1935 Bugatti Type 57 Aerolithe?

[sixtee5cuda]

A point to CG for the correct answer.

Not an Atlantic, but the car which came before and showed the pattern.

[Allan L]

Sorry I interfered, but as a non-specialist I assumed it was an Atlantique, if not the production version, at least a prototype  - which it could well be described as, but I didn't know it had its own name.
Should have listened to Barrie Price a bit more attentively when he had an Atlantique and was writing Bugatti 57 The Last French Bugatti in about 1990

[sixtee5cuda]

This is one of those puzzles I love.  Nothing is ever as it seems on autopuzzles.  Yet another learning opportunity.

At least 2 people built/are building Aerolithe replicas.  And if I recall correctly, the supposedly lost original was found and is being rebuilt.

[Allan L]

Nothing is ever as it seems on autopuzzles.  Yet another learning opportunity.

I'll drink to that!