Check out this rust case.
http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/Long_lost_Bugatti_retrieved_from_Italian_lake/
Makes the Miss Belvedere look pretty good.
Mama mia that car is a mess!? :o
Maggiore Lake is the deepest in the Alps. One french Architect? in? 1937 left its 1925 Bugatti, which he drove 3 years with french plates (thus illegally) in Suisse, to his Ascona guest family. Not willing to pay the customs fare, they drove it into the lake.
I have been on this spot 1997, You see the boats in the background, where the Bugatti was drowned .
On the opposite shore of the lake, I saw a nice Plymouth 1956(?).
Switzerland had no important own car passenger car production, but some assembly plants for Mopars and GMs. Thus, you still find a lot of US cars there.
greetings! Go
GO,
Thanks for posting more photos, you, your wife and that Plymouth sure do get around.
I always enjoy seeing the photos that you post of your trips in Europe.
Thanks again,
Bob
Go - the Plymouth in the photo is a 1957. Interesting story about the Bugatti. I wonder what the taxes would have been on it? Years ago I remember reading of an effort to retrieve a load of Rollin cars from a lake in the U.S. Rollin's were made for a short period of time by Rollin White (White cars, trucks, etc). I don't recall but I think they did manage to retrieve one car. Makes you wonder how many more cars there are like that. Hemmings Collector Car magazine in the last issue had a story about the lost Norseman show car that went down with the Andrea Doria in 1957.
I don't know, Mark.
A bit of wax and a buffer .....?
I had to check this thread to see if somebody had posted photos of my 33 coupe.
Nice pictures Go Fleiter. ;D