Bugatti Type 30 chassis number 4725, offered here, is accompanied by a report compiled by Bugatti expert Pierre-Yves Laugier.

Laugier notes that the car was ordered by Bugatti agent Dubuisson of Saint Quentin for his customer, Jean Charavel, and that the chassis was likely produced in January of 1926.

Dubuisson purchased the rolling chassis only, commissioning an unidentified coachbuilder to produce the elegant four-passenger open tourer body, with two doors: one on the left, for the front passenger, and one on the right rear! Importantly, early photographs depict the car with the sexy rakish vee’d windshield that it still wears today.

The car was driven on garage plates 1651 WW5 by Bugatti racing driver, Louis Charavel, who competed under the pseudonym of “Sabipa”—and brother of this car’s original owner.

Delivered to Jean Charavel, the car is believed to have remained with his family until 1960.

It was subsequently sold to J.P.

Léger of Dreux, then passed to François Lecorché.
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