Not Sold (Est: £2.5m - £3.34m)
1932 Bugatti Type 55 Cabriolet
Bonhams • France • 2 Feb 2023
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Not Sold (Est: £2,502,450 - £3,336,600)
1932 Bugatti Type 55 Cabriolet
France • 2 Feb 2023
Vehicle Details
AI Listing Summary
This 1932 Bugatti Type 55 Cabriolet, with coachwork by Vanvooren, is presented as the most original of the six Vanvooren-bodied Type 55s delivered to Paris. It features its original chassis, crankshaft, and body, boasts a known continuous ownership history, and has undergone a professional restoration with minimal mileage since, though it includes a new cylinder block and gearbox.
Condition
8
The car has been professionally restored with only 1,500km covered since. The chassis, crankshaft, and body are original. However, it does have a new cylinder block and gearbox. The listing indicates a recent, extensive restoration and continuous ownership history.
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55217
LHD
France
3988 NA 6
1932
Auction
Not Sold (Est: £2.5m - £3.34m)
1932 Bugatti Type 55 Cabriolet
Bonhams • France • 2 Feb 2023
Market Position:
Rare Sale
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Description
• The most original of six Vanvooren-bodied Type 55s delivered to Paris in 1932 • Original chassis, crankshaft and original body • Known continuous ownership history • Professionally restored with a mere approximately 1,500km covered since • New cylinder block and gearbox from Crosthwaite & Gardiner At the end of 1931, the Parisian Bugatti agent Dominique Lamberjack (junior), a friend of both Jean Bugatti and Robert de Prandières, the director of coachbuilders Vanvooren in Courbevoie, agreed between them that most of the Bugatti Type 55 '300' chassis delivered to Lamberjack's dealership would be sent to Vanvooren for bodying.
Among the seven Bugatti Type 55 chassis delivered in Paris, six would be bodied by Vanvooren and one by Figoni in Courbevoie.
The register of sales and deliveries confirms that the five Type 55 chassis ordered and delivered to Lamberjack in 1932 were numbers '55204', '55208', '55214', '55217' and '55227'.
They were all invoiced for 72,500 French francs.
The si...
Price Analysis vs Other Type 55s
£2,925,000
Lowest Price (Since 2020)
£3,902,410
Median Price (Since 2020)
£5,500,644
Highest Price (Since 2020)
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