I was at the Pebble Beach Concourse many years ago. On display in front of the Pebble Beach lodge were all of the Royale's. They came from all around the world. It was a display of automotive beauty that could never be matched.

@stevetournay6103

4 ай бұрын

That would have been 1986. Four Royales were then owned by US collections; the other two were airfreighted in from the Musee National de l'Automobile in Mulhouse, France... After VW AG took over the Bugatti marque following the collapse of Romano Artioli's revival effort in Italy, they commissioned two nostalgic projects, the restoration of the Bugatti villa at Molsheim and a replica of the Royale roadster bodied to a Jean Bugatti design for French clothier Armand Esders, so today there are seven Royales, not six. (That's a survival rate ABOVE 100 percent!) The Esders roadster is seen in the video in a B&W photo; in the pic the apparently diminutive gent beside the car is the quite average height Jean Bugatti, showing what a vast car the T41 was...BTW the listing of individual cars in the video is severely scrambled.

@drewmog123456

4 ай бұрын

Royale’s what?

@crushingvanessa3277

4 ай бұрын

Wonder how much it costs to ship those cars.

@piccalillipit9211

4 ай бұрын

OMG I would loved to have seen that...

Although the cars weren't an economic success, the huge engines were bought by the French national railways and were used to power trains.

Briggs Cunningham owned one here in California. He would bring it out on weekends and give rides to museum members. I used to watch in amazement.

So special and magic cars🌟🌟🌟

All the Royales still exist except for the first one that got written off but I think parts of it may have been reused, not sure. Most are in a museum in France. Nice to finally see some good outdoor pictures of these.

I saw one of this in Goodwood FOS, a few years ago. His size is absolutely impressive. Maximum luxury

I remember back in the 80's, the Franklin mint advertised a 1 18th scale model of the black and blue Bugatti Royale. Very cool that they all survived. I heard a story in a car magazine that one was stored underground in the french sewer to keep it from the invading Nazi's during WW2. Thanks.

Cité de l'Automobile (Mulhouse) has three of them, including a replica of the Roadster Armand Esders which was assembled from a pre-produced chassis, a Bugatti engine of an SNCF railcar and a reconstructed body. They have so many Bugattis, when I visited it first as a child I was under the impression that Bugatti cars must once have been very common. Only later I learned that they have always been exclusive racing and luxury cars, never really going into large production series. The museum's founders, Fritz and Hans Schlumpf, were car crazy and secretly built up a sizeable collection, rebuilding a hall of their textile factory into a museum ... while running their company into the ground, as it went bankrupt they fled to Switzerland while workers occupied the private museum and made it open to the public.

@jean-claudemuller122

4 ай бұрын

The Schlumpf brothers bought directly at the former Bugatti plant all what they could buy, from original drawings to tools, casts and spare parts, so they were able to reconstruct Bugatti's as original. That's why this Bugatti's collection at Mulhouse is unique in the world.

Wow, and all still exist, that in itself is impressive.

Wunderbar, wunderschön ❤️❤️❤️

Almost a century young and still beautiful, a view I held half a century ago as a little fella.

Yes, Please! I Want ONE!!!

Yeah that deserve the subscription

7 built, 3 sold, 6 still exist. Kinda rare car 🙂

@s.s.p.9680

5 ай бұрын

Was the most expensive car when last sold. Could maybe also sell for highest price today.

@drewmog123456

4 ай бұрын

6 built, one replica I thought.

@jean-claudemuller122

4 ай бұрын

@@drewmog123456 not really a replica, as the Schlumpf brothers possessed original drawings, tools, casts, pieces and even hired former Bugatti craftmen to rebuilt a royale

@drewmog123456

4 ай бұрын

I just remembered, Tom Wheatcroft built another exact copy.

I want to make a model of each Royale using the Testors/Italeri kits. I have one more to get, starting with the Napoleon kit and reworking the bodies for the enclosed ones. These things are starting to shoot up in price now that I'm looking for them. Finding good interior pictures for each isn't easy though, especially the long body limo with the cloth upholstery.

Italians are Genuis

I live near the Henry Ford and the type 41 at 4:27 What a car!

Anything with inline-8 is automatically a true jewel.

43 million today

If anyone has the opportunity to go to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn MI; There is an excellent example of the Royal! It’s big and beautiful!

Driver seed the Gorizont only ."Landaulet" was werry interesting conception at its Time .

The original price was $43000 that's over $721000 today!

@s.s.p.9680

5 ай бұрын

Which doesn't look very expensive. But at that time such a price for a car was much more than any other car. And even more so compared to incomes. In 1970s car model inflation was in general 3 times more than average inflation.

@VideoDotGoogleDotCom

4 ай бұрын

And now there are so many cars costing AT LEAST a million, quite a few of them SEVERAL millions... And few of those will be remembered after so many decades.

Nothing says “Fuck the chauffeur” like this car.

@CarStory1

4 ай бұрын

hahahahaha exactly

Go to France, the Schlumph collection to see Bugattis. It will take your breath away.

Remarkable piece of engineering. But I`m disgusted by the look into these wealthy peoples minds who wanted their chauffeur being exposed to all kinds of bad weather while they are sitting warm and comfortably.

Ettore pronounced Ettor-ea

@AtheistOrphan

4 ай бұрын

Yanks trying to pronounce European words make me cringe.

‘Royale with cheese’

You got the attributions of the individual cars all wrong...try better.

What’s a Bugarty?

1:33 'This engine was a technical marvel, even by the standards of the time.' What a meaningless statement that is.

3:08 - ‘John Bugatti’ - 😭

@caribman10

4 ай бұрын

C'est Jean...

@AtheistOrphan

4 ай бұрын

@@caribman10 - Oui, bien sur.

Why can´t we see any interior?

@CarStory1

5 ай бұрын

In my opinion, the interior was not as impressive as its exterior curves, but for the next videos I will also show the interior.

@jean-claudemuller122

4 ай бұрын

@@CarStory1 at the museum you can see the gorgeous interior. Each interior was also custom made to client Wisches

Great depression started 1929

°MissionPassed++

Not "Ett-orr" Bugatti "Eh-Toor-ay". Also, "Byoogatty".

Cruella deVille

you messed chassis altogether

Can't beat a car with an airplane engine.

only 7 built worth $50 million each

Some misinformation in this presentation.

french car

I guess it was not especially advanced, technically underneath its elegant body.......

@s.s.p.9680

5 ай бұрын

300hp, huge at the time.

@derrickrees8895

4 ай бұрын

You had to hope nothing major would ever go wrong within the cylinders , since the Head was not removable ... A valve grind , if necessary , would start with removing the engine from the chassis , then starting at the base of the engine with the crank case , Oil pump , bearings , crank shaft , pistons , etc - all of these components being massive and heavy ... the mind boggles .

What an awful narration!

PLEASE LEARN to say the names properly. The accent is on the O, not the E! (in Ettore Bugatti). So EttOre, not Ettore.

@CarStory1

5 ай бұрын

sorry, I use an AI reader and the pronunciation is sometimes not correct

@s.s.p.9680

5 ай бұрын

Accent is on the E, all sources tell me. Are you Italian?

@mikeyerke3920

4 ай бұрын

@@CarStory1 It ruins an otherwise good video.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Regent

french car

@07torpedo

5 ай бұрын

Ettore Bugatti was Italian, but all the cars have been and are still built in Molsheim, Alsace, France....

@jean-claudemuller122

4 ай бұрын

before having his own brand, Ettore worked as an engineer for Peugeot (french) and De Dietrich (french). His family came from Milan and his brother was a sculptor, he designed the elephant on the radiator.