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Horst - Bugatti legends

2009-12-07T14:25:32Z

J.J.Horst: New page: <H1> Bugatti Legends </H1> <H2>Unproven legends and true stories.</H2> <H3>2nd edition</H3> <I>Jaap Horst </I><P> The 2nd edition is just a reprint, no changes in the text. Only diffe...

<H1> Bugatti Legends
</H1>

<H2>Unproven legends and true stories.</H2>
<H3>2nd edition</H3>
<I>Jaap Horst
</I><P>
The 2nd edition is just a reprint, no changes in the text. Only difference from the 1st edition is that the color of the rear cover is changed from white to dark blue.<P>
122 pages, 143 photographs (mainly period) and drawings<BR>17 x 24cm<P>
<P>
"You know about the Italian descendant in Uruguay who is a collector of rare material, like a Daimler Benz that belonged to a nazi officer. He has a Bugatti engine that, as he says, is the first Formula 1 engine. This engine would be a revolution in the history of car racing, and actually in the history of the automobile as a whole!" <P>
This is one of the legends raised in this book, which is based largely on a collection of mails that I received over the 10 years that the BugattiPage exists. These are the mails that were too strange or too much of a rumour to be published on my BugattiPage site, plus a selection of the most interesting material from my Internet site.<P>
Opposite to most other - well researched - books, this one is written more to raise new questions: Instead of proving legends to be either false or true, this book tries to launch several new ones. Apart from these legends, there is also lots of previously unpublished information on various aspects of Bugatti history.<P>Though some of the stories may raise some eyebrows, and, I must admit, it may very well be that some are not true, most of the stories told in the book are real aspects of Bugatti history, like the stories on the Bugatti T125 and the Bugatti OTI, the T37 with compressor in front of the engine and many others. Added to the stories were many period pictures, mostly previously unpublished.<P>

Philately-Udmurtia

2009-02-17T13:13:51Z

J.J.Horst:

Udmurtia does not exist!

Any stamps you encounter with this name on it are fakes, made using pictures taken from the BugattiPage site!

Bugatti people

2009-02-17T13:09:58Z

J.J.Horst: /* Various people */

== The Bugatti Family ==

[[Carlo Bugatti]]

[[Ettore Bugatti]]

[[Jean Bugatti]]

[[Rembrandt Bugatti]]

== Bugatti racing drivers ==

[[Philippe Etancelin]]

[[Tazio Nuvolari]]

[[William Grover]]

[[Bartolomeo Costantini]]

[[Pierre Veyron]]

[[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]

[[Maurice Trintignant]]

[[Elisabeth Junek]]

[[Czaykowski]]

== Bugatti owners ==

[[Holzschuch]]

[[Guillaume Prick]] (Founder of the Dutch Bugatti Club)

[[Jean Prick]] (Son of Guillaume Prick, avid Bugattiste)

[[Hugh Conway]] (Writer of various Bugatti books)

[[Willem Hascher]] (Collector of classic cars, among them Bugatti type 101 #101502)

[[Fritz Schlumpf]] (Collector of classic cars, with by far the largest Bugatti collection)

[[Michel Dovaz]] (Owner of the famous Dovaz-collection, also known as: "Sleeping Beauties")

== Various people ==

[[Mr. Pracht]] (administrator of the Bugatti factory)

[[Paul Kestler]] (Writer of various Bugatti books)

[[Hugh Conway Sr.]] (Author of even more Bugatti books)

[[Johan Buchner]] (Famous writer of Bugatti related articles)

[[Jaap Horst]] (Admin of the oldest Bugatti website)

Jaap Horst

2009-02-17T13:08:16Z

J.J.Horst:

I was quite surprised to find my name here; below an article that I wrote for the first aniversary of my website www.BugattiPage.com . Of course, since then I did a few more things, like starting the BugattiRevue.com and the Bugatti Aircraft Association. Hopefully the first replica Bugatti will fly withing 10 years!

Some of the info I had was also used for other publications, like the Bugatti Legends books and various CD Roms (started actually to overcome locally very low download speeds, now something people will laugh about, but in the early days it might just take 10 minutes to download a single page with a few pictures!

Here the article:
Birthday

It's been a year now that my Bugatti page was born, on February 27 1995. Since this first beginning the little one has grown and grown, and has come to what it is now.
A little history: since a year and a half we have a connection with the Internet at the University, I began browsing and zapping, like everyone. On the way I collected some pictures of Cars, my great hobby. When after a while a colleague of mine, Hielke Hoekstra, had a server program, I decided to do something about two things that were missing on the web, a Bugatti page, and a place where automobile pictures could be found, especially French cars.

Since then I saw the web expanding, lots of automotive sites came up, including some on Bugattis.
My own site expanded, new features were offered, like picture sheets where small versions of all pics can be seen. It was difficult to choose a good size for these, but I made them quite big, so one can really see what's on it! I began making a list of Bugattis for sale, a clublist, events and news on Bugattis, all to just try and inform the Bugatti community.

What did this year bring for me? First it brought some great friends, like Jacob Munkhammar who, after having seen my Bugatti pages began with his own. He even visited me last summer, and followed my advise in his Architecture studies: As a special project he designed the new EB115. This car won't be build though, as the Factory who made the new EB110 and was developing the new EB112 went bankrupt, a black day. Although.....one never knows, they might begin again?

The Dutch Bugatti Club came to know of my pages, I talked to Tjerk Stapel and he invited me to a reunion, where I had my first ride in a Bugatti!, furthermore I hope to be a member soon.

Apart from these great contacts out of Cyberspace, I of course had numerous contacts over the Net, people who wanted information, or offered information, It would be too much to name them all here (I just went over the list of mails, and it truly is too much!). I just want to thank them!

Special thanks goes to Tom Burnside, who send me a book he made the pictures for, back in 1961! It includes some nice pictures of Bugattis. Thierry Dunglar send me a miniature model, just for putting his list of miniatures on the net.

So far I don't know of any Bugattis that have been sold because of my pages, I don't believe that any miniatures were sold either, but this doesn't matter, as I maintain these pages just for fun and love of Bugattis, and probably will never even possess one!

Bugatti Airplane

2009-02-17T08:55:55Z

J.J.Horst:

http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/images/cance1s.jpg http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/images/cance2s.jpg

The Bugatti Model 100

The Bugatti Model 100 airplane was designed in 1937 by Louis D. de Monge to compete in the famous "Coupe Deutch" air race. Originally designed with a single propeller, it was later fitted with a second engine, located behind the first one, and a second, counter-rotating propeller.

Although offering many avant-garde design features (inverted Y-tail, forward-swept wings), the Model 100 would never fly.

Hidden during World War II, it was then brought to the United States, where its engines were removed and used to power racing cars. Its fuselage, passing from hand to hand, was finally donated to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) museum, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, which started a restoration project in 1996.

Some experts think this unique aircraft would have set a world record at the time. We hopefully once know if this is true - but the Bugatti 100’s unique, elegant lines have earned it a spot of honor in the EAA museum.

The Bugatti Aircraft Association was founded in 1998 by Jaap Horst, the goal of the association is to gather all possible knowledge about the airplane, with as a final goal to enable the building of a FLYING replica! At that moment, we will know if the 100P really would have broken the world record for land airplanes of that time!
[http://www.BugattiAircraft.com]