So who bought the ex-Bugatti 1925 T Tourer at auction last week?

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So who bought the ex-Bugatti 1925 T Tourer at auction last week?

Post by Chris Martin 2 » Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:35 pm

I had written elsewhere about my attempts to buy the Montier-Ford at the Mullin Collection auction last Friday but there was another Model T there that went cheap - and it has a significant history.
Further down the lots a fairly rough '25 Tourer went for just $1k.
Ok, you may say, that is all it is worth, except that was the one that was bought by the famed Swiss/French collector Fritz Schlumpf from the Bugatti estate in the early '60s. It was known that Ettore Bugatti himself used a plain old Model T Tourer as a runabout for errands around his Molsheim estate and stables and one would think that provenance would have added some extra value.
It seemed Peter Mullin was unaware of this link and it was only when Goodings cataloged it was any mention made of Bugatti, but given that it was one of the humblest lots in the auction I doubt anyone bothered reading that far in the description.
So, the question now is;
Does anyone on here, especially the California guys, know who bought it?
If so, put me in touch so I can tell them the whole story.