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The Bugatti Type 51 Coupe Racecar The Dubos and the road car.
The Bugatti Type 51 Coupe Racecar The Dubos and the road car.
It has often been said that in the 1920s and 30s automakers built automobiles, but these are body builders who built cars In the case of each Bugatti it was a truism Major bodybuilders on two continents supported the Bugatti different chassis designed and built for over 40 years, and created what may be the most beautiful cars in the world has ever known.
In automotive history, Ettore Bugatti was one of the most colorful characters in the story, someone whose stories have been told and whose life was an open book scripted in a dogmatic style Although flamboyant Italian by birth, Bugatti has spent almost all his life in France from the years 1910 to 1951, nearly 8,000 cars bearing the signatures were produced Bugatti in Molsheim located in the region Alsace.
Hard to believe, but it is the same car with two different bodies, really the definition par excellence of the race car and road car.
There were 52 different models Bugatti produced over the years ranging from Grand Prix Racecars the famous Type 35 of the most luxurious cars and expensive ever built, the Bugatti Royale Somewhere in between was the type 51, a car that could be both race car and road car it was just a matter of coachwork.
The design of the chassis for all models Bugatti retains a traditional rigid architecture established by Ettore, this being more particularly a solid rear axle suspension shift elliptic springs, and in front of an axis of artistic solid beam hitting pierced at its outer corners with semi-elliptical springs passing through the axle housing.
The Bugatti engine is a work of art, but the simplistic art, as explained Roland Bugatti engine was a line 8 cylinders with two camshafts in the lead, and a bore x stroke 36 x 60 mm 2 100 mm 3 93 giving a swept volume of 2 or 3 liters 136 5 cubic inches Release was evaluated at 180 horsepower.
Engines, too, were impressive in their layout; Unique in appearance, with square boxes with guilloche finely polished finishes The logic of this apparently complex design has been debated for decades was, as some had speculated, recognition of Ettore Bugatti's cubist movement made popular in 1920 with Damascus over rectangular, or was it a more practical reason for the uniqueness of its engines as the youngest son of Roland Bugatti, it was the latter as the boss Ettore was referred to not tolerate the loss time, labor or materials, he said the eminent historian Griff Borgeson the workers of the factory were mostly son of peasants with little Slab-sided building mechanical skills and guilloche finishes were the simplest well, as for the cubist theory.
The Type 51 Bugatti were fast cars adapted to virtually any type of road racing under the hood has been one of the wheels aligned most powerful eight-cylinder engines in the 1930s, supercharged March 2 liter 136 cubic inch 5 twin engine shaft overhead cam capable of developing 180 horsepower Bugatti gearbox built almost unbreakable, and massive mechanical brakes needed to wash off speed task until they overheated, one of the weaknesses of most first Bugatti racing cars.
The magnificent Louis Dubos pronounced the arch-bodied for the type 51 is remarkably similar to the type 57SC Atlantic designed by Jean Bugatti.
The body of this example, now in the Nethercutt Collection, however, the design of an off Louis Dubos This is the second body, the body of the road car if you want.
This type 51 was fitted with a body Grand Prix and campaigned by the famous French race driver Louis Chiron This Grand Prix has been the traditional Bugatti racing style of the time, a narrow body with a small cockpit driver and mechanic horse cars were prominent in appearance with their gates iron single horse and bright blue paint Bugatti.
Chiron drove for Bugatti in the 1931 season-race, after which the boss gave him the kind of 51 GP car Chiron campaigned for another season and then sold Sportsman André Bith, heir to a fortune French pharmaceutical Bith led the Grand Prix rallies and sporting events until 1937 when he retired the Bugatti of the competition and is still in very good condition, were the type 51 chassis with new coachwork he went to Carrossier Louis Dubos 7 and 9 Sablonville street, Paris for more to have a body built in the style of an exciting new kind 57SC Atlantic Bith of Jean Bugatti was a close friend of Jean Bugatti and was very impressed with the drama aerodynamic coupe with the Atlantic as its guide, Dubos started working on the car April 2, 1937 and issued the rebodied 51 to 20 July Bith.
Long Bodylines on the short wheelbase Type 51 are creating a very dramatic position with such visual power of the body concentrated on the wings.
The new body was exactly what Bith had wanted a short wheelbase Atlantic He entered the car in the elegance Bagatelle Concours 1937, where it has been shown by Ms. Jacqueline Ganet, the reign Miss France The Type 51 was awarded 2nd place It was perhaps prophetic finish Bugatti in his first competition of elegance.
Bith sold the car before the First World War and it just disappeared Bugatti miraculously survived the war and was acquired by American Gene Cesari in the early 1950s, M. Cesari removed the body Dubos and replace the chassis as traditional type 51 race car Grand Prix Coupe body was sold to another collector mounted on a chassis type 51 made up, and the car was gone again.
When JB Nethercutt bought Chiron type 51 in 1959, the second body Grand Prix was gone and all that remained of the original car was the bare chassis, he turned to internationally recognized authority and Bugatti restorer OA Bunny Phillips, who built another body Grand Prix Bugatti identical to those carried out a campaign in the early 1930s Type 51 became part of the personal collection of JB Nethercutt and nobody thought again about the body until that DUBOS Coupe it surfaced at auction almost 40 years later, in August 2000 for years had been in the collection Bob Sutherland chassis outside of Denver, Colorado even Sutherland had no idea where the original kind Chiron was 51 he was just before the auction at Pebble Beach staff JB Nethercutt museum had discovered the original frame, the type of rebuilt 51 grand Prix car that M. Nethercutt bought in 1959 the museum then bought auction sale to Dubos, and body and chassis were reunited and restored t ogether for the first time in over half a century.
The same yet different type guilloche panel 51 of the dashboard, instrumentation and controls has never changed over the years, just all around them.
The restoration of the car was extensive, although the body Dubos was in tact The Nethercutt food store pursued all means of research in terms of finishes, materials, and especially the dashboard, which has always maintained his race car Having the original chassis already restored under the body of the great price certainly accelerated the process of restoration and in 2003, the Bugatti Dubos Coupe debuted at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Unfortunately this was the same year that Bugatti Type 57SC two of Atlantics were made, and even if a favorite amongst others, the type 51 DUBOS Coupe was trumped by the same car that inspired its conception in 1937, one of Atlantics was voted best in class and won the Best of Show, leaving the DUBOS with honors as second class, as happened in 1937 Bagatelle Concours d'Elegance on Dubos French also won the prestigious Pebble Beach Cup for the best car of French origin, who that day, he doub t was despite the pair type 57SC Atlantics.
Just disaster research is the only way to describe the Coupe Dubos from behind.
Today is the centerpiece of the new Dubos Nethercutt Museum, located in front of San Sylmar still capable of speeds up to 140 mph Type 51 is a great sports car, even by the standards of the 21st century.
aerodynamics of the body extended to DUBOS coupe doors, which are highly inclined and articulated rear Getting in and out of the car was more difficult than it seems.
The grid Bugatti 57SC type of style, in this case, a vee shaped slightly d, is the interpretation most beautiful traditional design horseshoe.
About a Bugatti is beautiful, even a radiator cap or the emblem of the partitioned grid.
Another thing that never changed was the fuel charge, causing the right rear cover is still there, now it is inside the car This makes feeding a chore and you have to ask what Louis Dubos thought.
The toolkit is now housed inside the shelf behind the seats.
Louis Dubos coachbuilder the plate was on the original body when it was purchased from Bob Sutherland estate auction in August 2000.
Here is more information on the Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix, courtesy of Jay Leno.
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