Driver Magazine - Issue 1 Dec 24 (3) - Flipbook - Page 55
THE LONG
LOST
BUGATTI
THE TALE OF LA VOITURE NOIRE
B Y
N I C K
S K I N N E R
The mid to late 1930s were a heyday of Automotive design. Bespoke, futuristic interpretations of personal
transport heavily influenced by art-nouveau and the art deco school of design. Elegant answers to a simple
question of moving people from one place to another. One of those at the forefront of this was a small French
manufacturer by the name of Bugatti.
Bugatti had risen to prominence with its massively successful, lightweight Grand Prix cars along with super
luxurious elegant limousines in the 1920s and early 1930s. The founder Ettore Bugatti came from a long line of
artisans and craftsmen who plied their various styles and trades to all manner of things, but for Ettore it was cars.
By the 1930s, Ettore had begun to step back from his role as the man in charge of Molsheim.
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