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Bugatti Type 51 barn find up for auction
How much did the Bugatti Type 51 cost?
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Riley acquired the Type 51 in the '80s - swapping it for a 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 and a 1954 Maserati 250F, with a combined value of up to £4.4 million today - believing it was the car that won the 1931 Casablanca Grand Prix, as driven by Count Stanislas Czaykowski.
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20/07/2012 17:55
How do so many crap adverts for dating sites get on here?
20/07/2012 19:53
Another empty barn for the left over illeagles
from the olympics to hide in, Great Britain is
a Great country, three million illegal imigrants
cant be wrong, well done Blair and Brown
20/07/2012 18:38
How come when i open barn doors, all i find is hay, a few mice and the odd farm tool, nothing as exciting as this.
If id of found that, id of kept it, look at it, stunning.
20/07/2012 16:37
Oh dear. There are some sad replicas of people writing in this space. such a shame!
20/07/2012 18:57
Reminds me of that car called "Brum Brum" which used or maybe still is on bbc
20/07/2012 13:55
Oh man its beautiful! cars of today have no personality.
20/07/2012 17:04
The Bugatti was a race car and thus had no boot and was not intended to be a normal day use car, in the days when these cars were raced they had neither roll bars, nor safety belts, so why the very stupid comparison with the Range Rover Evoque (not Evoke)!
If it is a replica, it is a very accurate one and I would be very surprised if it only went for a few £100k.
For the muppet who commented on the Fiat outside the garage Alan Riley knew his cars, owning a number of what would be now rare and sought after vehicles, so all you have done is expose your total ignorance and there were NOT the people available in the 80's that could, "for a few quid" verify a cars authenticity!
If it is a replica, it is a very accurate one and I would be very surprised if it only went for a few £100k.
For the muppet who commented on the Fiat outside the garage Alan Riley knew his cars, owning a number of what would be now rare and sought after vehicles, so all you have done is expose your total ignorance and there were NOT the people available in the 80's that could, "for a few quid" verify a cars authenticity!
20/07/2012 17:40
reminds me of an Amilicar type g. if i had money would buy a classic any day instead of a modern car.
20/07/2012 17:59
wasn,t chitty chitty bang bang near a barn....once done up it will look excellent...i wonder how
much it will go for?
20/07/2012 17:58
What a bargain for someone with cash to spare.
A beauty in it's own right with an air of authenticity at a price that wouldn't wreck the marriage.
(Just 'phoned the War Office to make sure she's bought some Lotry Tckts......)
You can bet your **** that with a back-story like that there'll be plenty of bids going in.
Flying jacket, aviation goggles, leather helmet and red spotted 'kerchief on the shopping list.
Maybe Scarlett Johanssen would like to navigate. And then I woke up!
A beauty in it's own right with an air of authenticity at a price that wouldn't wreck the marriage.
(Just 'phoned the War Office to make sure she's bought some Lotry Tckts......)
You can bet your **** that with a back-story like that there'll be plenty of bids going in.
Flying jacket, aviation goggles, leather helmet and red spotted 'kerchief on the shopping list.
Maybe Scarlett Johanssen would like to navigate. And then I woke up!
22/07/2012 21:17
Some depressing Saddo comments.......it is a Historical Car which gives an insight into the history of cars, so whats wrong with that. Better than looking at some modern day violent daft computer game. If it had been found in the USA you would never heard the last of exeggrated hype.
20/07/2012 14:27
Further proof they don't know how to make a car to love anymore...they all look the blinkin' same now!
20/07/2012 22:02
No one has mentioned that the number plate is not original - that series was reserved by DVLA to put on vehicles that were reregistered - a pointer that it might be a replica built from parts hence the later stle of plate??
20/07/2012 18:05
wheels and tyres look in good nick------well worth £50.00 steerling pounds
20/07/2012 17:29
Great car, i may bid for a tyre, where's Elton when you need him?
And no snotty remarks from know alls please.
24/07/2012 12:49
yeah, so much better than daft violent video games....
when I was a lad we had REAL violence and genocide.
20/07/2012 13:52
*who gives a flyin fek* if you dont care why post on it?
22/07/2012 20:16
WILL ALL YOU FARMERS WHO ARE FOR EVER WINGING ABOUT MONEY GO AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN YOUR BARN YOU MAY BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
YOU MAY ALSO MAKE ENOUGH SPACE TO DO WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO IN BARNS (keep animal feed ?)
21/07/2012 13:29
One would suggest to MSN that if this example of automotive nostalgia is a replica, i.e. it is not the genuine article that it's former keeper may once have believed it to be (but soon realised that it wasn't given that it was subsequently left in a garage uncared-for without regular maintenance routines), then the article headline should state, Barn Find Bugatti Type 51 Replica up for auction, or something very similar; the entire emphasis being on the word (and fact of it being a) replica.
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