This magnificent car is a recreation — not a restoration — of the 1935 Bugatti coupe. It is the work of a Toronto area firm Guild of Automotive Restorers. The staggering challenge of creating a car which quite literally no longer exists just makes the mind swim. In fact, the one-off original appeared in public but once at a car show in the United Kingdom and underwent a single road test and then, for reasons not exactly known, the prototype vehicle just disappeared. The story of how the recreation occurred is told by Nicholas Maronese on the Sympatico site. Inset are the black and white snapshots which represented a major source for the recreation along with some rough blueprints of the day SympaticoOntario artisans recreate 1935 Bugatti coupe
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This magnificent car is a recreation — not a restoration — of the 1935 Bugatti coupe. It is the work of a Toronto area firm Guild of Automotive Restorers. The staggering challenge of creating a car which quite literally no longer exists just makes the mind swim. In fact, the one-off original appeared in public but once at a car show in the United Kingdom and underwent a single road test and then, for reasons not exactly known, the prototype vehicle just disappeared. The story of how the recreation occurred is told by Nicholas Maronese on the Sympatico site. Inset are the black and white snapshots which represented a major source for the recreation along with some rough blueprints of the day Sympatico