[Healeys] barn find

[Patrick and Caroline Quinn]

G'day Rick

The whole of the Bugatti family were highly artistic. Father Carlo Bugatti
was renowned for his furniture and pieces today are worth squillions. Ettore
was the bloke who designed and built the cars while his brother Rembrandt
(not the famous painter who died 250 years beforehand) was a talented
sculptor.

Pieces of Rembrandt Bugatti sculpture do come up for sale and they too are
mega expensive. It was Rembrandt Bugatti who designed the Elephant radiator
sculpture that was used on the Bugatti Royale - the most expensive motor car
ever built.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Eric (Rick) Wilkins
Sent: Friday, 2 January 2009 12:32 PM
Cc: Austin Healey
Subject: Re: [Healeys] barn find

I was just watching the antiques roadshow and a person had brought in  
a sculpture by Mr. Bugatti. Apparently he liked to sculpt animals.

On Jan 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Patrick and Caroline Quinn wrote:

> G'day John
>
> That's a coincidence. No I don't have T57 Atalante in my garage  
> (sigh!), but
> I do have a model.
>
> No just a couple of days back I was reading a book on the pre-WW2  
> Bugatti
> racing driver Jean-Pierre Wimille who also sold Bugattis for a living.