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The Berline de Voyage was the sixth car of the Royale series and as the Kellner Coupé it remained unsold and so was kept by Bugatti. As the Kellner Coupé and the Coupe Napoleon it was bricked up behind a false wall during World War II at Bugatti's family house in Ermenonville to prevent being seized by the Nazis.
In 1950 it joined once more the Kellner Coupé and was sold to american Le Mans racer Briggs Cunningham for $3000. The car was soon sold and ended up in The Harrah Collection being sold in auction in 1986 to Jerry J. Moore for $6.5 million. Moore only waited one year until he sold the Berline de Voyage to Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, for $8.1 million. A few years later the car was yet again sold and is now a part of the Blackhawk Collection in California.
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The first and original Bugatti car-building company was opened by Italian ‘genius’ Ettore Bugatti in 1909 in Molsheim, France. Bugatti started out as a performance-car manufacturer and quickly became worldwide renowned for creating extremely luxurious and quite fast automobiles.
The first Bugatti cars were characterized for the detailed excellence of their engines and their ‘artistic’ body stylin... more
