Hidden treasure or…? (Upd. T57 / T30 / T44?)

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Top of the list of the auction to be held by Lankes before the start of the Mille Miglia on May 11th, will be this 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Convertible. It is a prototype built on a Type 57 chassis with the serial No 57453 but one that never went in production. A nice touch of the bodywork is the dickey seat. The prototype was bought by an Italo-American citizen of the U.S.A. and afterwards sold back to Europe where it for several decades rested in an old barn. The car needs complete restoration, but many parts like the gear assembly, oil-radiator, distributor, etc. are still there. This Bugatti is mentioned on the website of the Bugatti Trust where it says that this chassis number was first used for the Coupe Aero. The number was then re-issued for this convertible. In the 1964 picture on the Trust-website the T57C has no engine, and today it comes with an 8-cylinder single cam engine, that definitely not stems from a T57. On Jaap Horst’s website The Bugatti Pages there is now a discussion whether this could be a Type 30 or Type 38. Can we contribute any thoughts on this?

(photos courtesy Lankes)

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