Name This Car and Win Our Promotional Budget

Filed in archive Concours by Philip Powell on August 20, 2006

If Classical Drive had a promotional budget (or any budget, for that matter) I'd happily give an award to the first person to guess the name of this car, which appeared in the 2006 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. As one who is supposed to recognise rare autos I'm pretending that I do in this instance, much as most of us hate to admit ignorance when a friend says "oh, did you know so-and-so?" The truth is, I only think I've heard of the obviously Italian Bucciali. The unbelievably gorgeous and low for its time (compare its height with the spectator) Bucciali is a 1932 Berline 4-door sedan with body by Saoutchik, featuring a V-12 engine with "Bucial" engraved on the cylinder heads. Something tells me it could be a custom Bugatti as in "Bugatti Special." Any thoughts?

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Response from: Ben (08/20/06 10:22pm)

Philip, a quick google reveals:
http://www.ritzsite.net/Archive/0310.htm"
rel="nofollow">http://www.ritzsite.net/Archive/0310.htm
which links to: http://www.bartvrijevormgeving.nl/bucciali/bucciali_4.html"
rel="nofollow">http://www.bartvrijevormgeving.nl/bucciali/bucciali_4.html

cheers,

Ben

Response from: Harley Ferguson (08/22/06 5:53am)

I don't know what it is, but it has gotta be the E Jag of it day. It looks like an Los Angeles Bugatti Royal (Type 41).

I wanta see more.

I'll add more photos in upcoming blogs, including more info. At first glance I, too, thought it was a Bugatti Royale.
-- Philip

Response from: Leslie (08/24/06 8:53am)

This car is owned by my client and was made in France, not Italy. It's a 1932 Bucciali TAV 12, coach by Saoutchik and has a 12 cylinder Voisin sleeve valve engine. The car is a one-off and was the Paris Salon car for 1932.

Thanks for this helpful information, Leslie. It's a beautiful car and I appreciated the opportunity to see it at Pebble Beach, as did many other admirers.
-- Philip

Response from: Simon (08/24/06 10:13am)

Bucciali motor cars were built in France between the mid 1920' and 30's. They were the creation of brothers Angelo and Paul Albert Bucciali.
The brothers claimed to have made 36 cars of various specifications.
I saw the car myself at Pebble Beach this year and took far too many photgraphs of it.

Let me know if you want anymore information on the car or brothers, I am doing some research on it and them following my encounter with the car.

-- I'm learning more and more about this fascinating car, thanks to viewers like Simon.

Response from: Goetz Niederer (08/27/06 12:18am)

I have seen the car at pebble beach. I think the car was shown at the retromobil, paris a few years ago. Are all the parts original? The bumpers??? There is a tale that the "the schlumpf collection" owns a body of a bucciali.
Goetz

Response from: Hubertus (11/24/07 11:17am)

In the Schlumpf- Collection there is no Bucciali! There are only three Buccialis left worldwide. Two belonged to the Blackhawk- Museum. One of them is the Chassis of the legendary 16-Zylinder. Nobody can tell if this 16- Zylinder ever worked. Paul Albert Bucciali said that there were two examples built, but the "Motor" of the surviving Chassis was a fake one and nobody can remember to have seen one working. The other Bucciali is the TAV 8. These two examples stood at the Schlumpf Collection some time during the 80s, borrowed from the Blackhawk Museum.
There were two Replicas built. One by Bill Tishman in the USA and one more in Europe.