Bugatti T57

A 1st Series Ventoux, chassis number ,57345‘ remains outstandingly original. The car was ordered new in December 1935 by its first owner, André ,Charles‘ Chauvenet, a prominent surgeon from Sévres and one of Bugatti’s most favoured clients. In 1960, the car was sold to J.W. Harrison of Arlington, Virginia and shipped to the USA and then was registered with the American Bugatti club. In 1967 Harrison sold the Ventoux to collector David Uihlein of Wisconsin, who rather than treat the car as a ,museum piece‘. For more than 40 years Mr. Uihlein enjoyed the Type 57 , which when sold after his death was essentially the same as when it had been delivered new.

Today it is one of the very few of its type left in un-restored condition, and accordingly is highly valued.