Rescued from the bottom of a lake - then sold for US$360,000

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Rescued from the bottom of a lake - then sold for US$360,000

14-02-10, 08:49 PM

This Bugatti was recently 'rescued' from the bottom of a lake (in the lake since 1937) and recently sold 'as is' for US 360k.

Read the fascinating story.

This car sold for US$360,000 in this condition ... and will not be restored

http://www.gizmag.com/the-legendary-lake-maggiore-1925-bugatti-type-22-brescia/14045/

An archeological find of some magnitude went under the hammer on January 23, 2010, when a rusted 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia that had spent the last three quarters of a century at the bottom of a lake in North Italy was auctioned.

Brescia Bugatti Rescued from Lake Maggiore

http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3300.asp?id=14253

A 1925 Type 13 Brescia Bugatti has recently been recovered from Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy. The car has lain submerged since 1937, when its then-owners abandoned it rather than pay the punitive import duties of the time...

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