According to the report on file by Pierre-Yves Laugier, Bugatti chassis number 57190 was ordered on 5 March 1934 by the Bugatti agent J.B.

Arnaud for his client, a dentist named Raymond Peretti of Poitiers, France.

Unfortunately, the mass of orders for the new Type 57 pushed the expected delivery date back several months, and the fully completed car—featuring Jean Bugatti’s elegant Stelvio coachwork—was not received by Mr.

Peretti at the Molshaim factory until July.

The report further illustrates the exterior was originally finished in Black and Ivory with a Havana leather interior and light beige hood.

The dentist was most certainly a fan of the marque, as this Type 57 replaced a Type 44 roadster by Gangloff sold the day before the order form was signed.

In a letter between him and the factory from the summer of 1937, it is reported that the car suffered from a cracked cylinder block and seized pistons.

By this point, the Bugatti had traveled roughly 40,000 kilometers (~24,850 ...