Mulhouse Motor Museum (City of # 39; Automotive)
The French city of the automobile Museum National Motor is one of our favorite destinations on CARTER Tours The museum was often called Schlumpf Bugatti museum or just after the two brothers who assembled the collection and many Bugattis included the museum buildings have recently been completely revised with this impressive entrance façade made sports car models full size interspersed flight of storks to do it justice, you could spend a week or more reviewing evidence, but half a day is usually enough before one is overwhelmed by the quantity and variety, with about 400 exhibits, including the largest collection of Bugattis worlds.
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Great to see something interesting already in the parking lot, this time 2 Alfa Romeo Montreals.
staff Bugatti 35B Fritz with which he ran after the 2nd World War.
Two half-size type 52 cars Children electric powered Supposedly for children from wealthy clients Bugatti, about 500 of these baby beauties were built between 1927 and 1936.
A 1970 Ferrari 312B driven by Formula 1 Mario Andretti.
The vast halls of the textile factory where decomissioned Schlumpf brothers had stored their collection, are partly left as they were found in 1977 when striking workers revolted after the Schlumpf brothers had started to break the company.
Workers have found more than 600 cars in the collection which was eventually rescued by the French Government in a buyout in 1981.
Voisin C28, 1936 A fascinating almost entirely of aluminum in the style of Art Eco.
Very nice Bugatti Type 55 Coupe with 2 8 3 liters right engine cylinders.
A type 46 with simplified processing uncommon windshield designed by Ettore Bugattis son, John.
One of the three Bugatti Type 41 Royales in the collection; Napoleon Cup, a replica of the Roadster and Esders this with body English Ward Park.
Only 6 Royal were built with any other superstructure on the frame of the wheelbase 4 3m actuated by a motor 12 8 liters of right 8.
This Maserati Race 1930 was still used on Swiss roads in the 1960s.
The Alfa Romeo 8C won the Mille Miglia race in 1936 with a lead of just 32 seconds after the lights have failed.
Only 6 of this type 101s were built around 1951 as an attempt to revive the company after WW2.
No museum would be complete without 300SL Gullwing Mercedes, this one in remarkable original condition.
An Alfa Romeo C52 head of a small Ferrari collection.
The impressive cut 450MM 5 liters painted in national colors Annam race now part of Vietnam where he belonged to the emperor, Bao Dai.
One of the first mid Engined Ferraris was what 250LM, brought from Sweden with more than 2000 km on the clock.
Natural to have a Bugatti Veyron on the modern screen too.
Glorious Mercedes Benz W125 in 1937 producing nearly 650 horsepower and 1939 W154 Grand Prix car driven by Rudolf Caracciola and Helmut Lang.
This fascinating engine supercharged Grand Price seems to be a Ferrari unit reworked Columbo, it is even possible to see where the Ferrari script was removed from the cover of the rocker.
The Bugatti 251 with the engine mounted transversely mid front right.
1955 OSCA TN Simpson special car break Bonneville record high of 261 kmh over a 10 km distance driven by James Simpson of the U S A.
Another type 52 Bugatti baby nestled among the largest exhibitions.
Royal Esders replica that was not equipped with lights because Mr. Esders never drove at night.
Some of the wood used buck in rebuilding the car.
The museum seems to have so many kind of 57s, a couple was left in various stages of construction so that all the details of engineering can be seen.
Indeed, three other types 57s in the exit room, all with exotic Atalante coachwork.
I visit the Mulhouse museum over the past 20 years and I always find something new and exciting that I have not seen before, so enjoy my old favorites once again, we do not make excuses for Mulhouse include a ride motorcycle, everyone with an interest in technical engineering and beauty of the design will enjoy a few hours here.
CLICK HERE for details of some of Carter visits, it is only a half-day tour here, but nicer to include in a week tour in southern Germany and Alsace, going through some more fascinating museums and events on the way.
The French National Museum Schlumpf Bugatti engine, French National Motor Museum.