THE FIRST BUGATTI IS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD
THE LYON Air Museum is located at John Wayne Airport, not far from SimanaitisSays world headquarters in Orange County, California. Among the museum’s regular displays are an American Airlines Douglas … Continue reading
ART OF BUGATTI–THE PETERSEN MUSEUM
JUST OPENED AT the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is The Art of Bugatti, in a sense a recreation of an earlier exhibit at the Mullin Automotive Museum described … Continue reading
BUGATTI EB110—RESPECTED SUPERCAR
IT TOOK more than two decades for the Bugatti EB110 to get proper supercar respect, though I recognized its greatness back in the car’s first U.S. road test, Road & … Continue reading
BUGATTI U-16 ENGINE
ONE OF Ettore Bugatti’s more exuberant engine designs had logic, if not luck, in its favor. This engine was a U-16, a pair of Bugatti inline-8 designs aligned in two … Continue reading
THE ARROGANCE OF GENIUS
IT IS generally observed that geniuses have no lack of ego. They’re arrogant. Research has shown this. The arrogance of genius is a recurring theme in literature, theater, movies and … Continue reading
THE DURAY MILLER—AND ETTORE’S DOHC
FORTUNES INTERTWINED for an Italian-born Alsatian, a Wisconsin-born Californian and a Cleveland kid who changed his name in tribute to a famous race driver. The personages, respectively, are Ettore Bugatti, … Continue reading
BUGATTI ART AT THE MULLIN
ARTISTIC GENIUS surfaced often in the Bugatti family. Ettore Bugatti built cars—with an artistic flair. His brother Rembrandt was a sculptor. Their father Carlo designed and fabricated Art Nouveau furniture. … Continue reading
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