Our FCA chapter had tour of Bob Smith Coachworks, figured you would like to see the one Bugatti in there. Absolutely gorgeous car! Image Unavailable, Please Login
John Ridings Lee's 1929 Type 46 Semi-Profileé chassis #46136. Also seen here at Retromobile in 2008 (photo credit for one goes to fellow F-Chatter Dirk de Jager, the others I have no idea): Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Same car, different venues (2008 Classy Chassis in Houston and 2009 at "The Quail" in Monterey): Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
can anyone fill me in on this t46??? as i recall the body was not a factory one but a close period copy...i don't think the factory made too many jean bugatti profilee bodies on the t46 chassis but reserved them for t50 chassis...also there was a flap years ago about the harrahs t50b profilee as it seemed there was a t46 in the mix somewhere..my "big" bugatti books are still packed so perhaps somebody out there has the # of profilee bodies from the bugatti factory still on original chassis... btw the t46 is a pretty cool unit..i designed a drophead body for a bare chassis years ago and spent a lot of time with it. hey tritone!!! konichi-wa... house is finished...lou ellen and i are in with a basement full of bugatti, ford t, and aircraft bits.. life is good!
Yes, this T46 (chassis #46136) is a rebody, not an original Semi-Profilee. Other T46 with Profilee bodies are 46491, 46482 (both fastback or "Super-Profilee") and 46546. I know that 46482 was an unused chassis that received it's Profilee body from a donor T50 (chassis # unknown) and I believe that the Semi-Profilee body on 46546 is original to the car. I'm not sure about 46491. Perhaps someone else knows more?
well..the ex-harrahs car, a 'T50' has a T46 chassis #..46546....i was always led to believe harrah assembled the car to have all the desirable stuff in one car...[air it had a blower as well..a T50T??] anyone know the current status of this unit??..there was also an issue with bolt on wheels vs bugatti knockoff alloy units..[ettore stole the rudge design but changed the splines to coarse to allow splines directly in the alloy and somehow avoided royalties to rudge]
