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[h=2]1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia[/h] 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia | Bonhams


This is less of a barn find and more of a lake find. It also shows how far car collectors are willing to go to find a missing gem. In 1934, a Swiss playboy named Adalbert Bodé bought a Bugatti in Paris. When he reached the Swiss border, he didn’t have the money to pay the import taxes on his new car. So instead of finding the money, he abandoned the car. Instead of impounding or selling it, the Swiss authorities simply dumped the car in Lake Maggiore and forgot about it.
The car was the stuff of local legend until a group of amateur divers discovered it 173 feet below the surface of the late in 1967. In 2009, the car was raised and auctioned off, with the profits going to combat local youth violence. The remains of this once-impressive car fetched more than $300,000 at Bonhams’ Retromobile auction in 2010.