04/02: Retromobile: A Little Bit of Everything
PARIS — Retromobile may be Europe’s best old car show. Housed in a hall here at the Porte de Versailles, Retromobile officially celebrates the bicentennial of Peugeot and urban transportation. But the eclectic nature of the exhibits means there’s a little bit of everything spread around the immense pavilion.
The highlight was Saturday’s sale of 99 classic cars by Bonhams. And the star of the stand was a 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia that was salvaged from a Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. The car ended up in the lake in 1936 and was recently recovered. It sold for around $370,000 — nearly three times its high estimate.
Then there was David Townend of Yorkshire, England, who makes and sells clothes for classic-car buffs. “They get the car, and we supply them with the clothes,” he explained. “People come and say, ‘This is the car, what should I wear?’ Bentley guys wear simple clothes, corduroy trousers and Harris tweed. Rolls-Royce owners wear suits.”
-By WILLIAM DIEM for the New York Times
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The highlight was Saturday’s sale of 99 classic cars by Bonhams. And the star of the stand was a 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia that was salvaged from a Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. The car ended up in the lake in 1936 and was recently recovered. It sold for around $370,000 — nearly three times its high estimate.
Then there was David Townend of Yorkshire, England, who makes and sells clothes for classic-car buffs. “They get the car, and we supply them with the clothes,” he explained. “People come and say, ‘This is the car, what should I wear?’ Bentley guys wear simple clothes, corduroy trousers and Harris tweed. Rolls-Royce owners wear suits.”
-By WILLIAM DIEM for the New York Times
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