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The Type 57G Tank (#57455) have the original serial number plate of #57335. Found together with firewall and the dashboard holders 1975 in Dorlisheim.

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''History of #57455 by Kees Jansen:''

Produced in June 1936 in a batch of three cars as factory racers with unnumbered engines. This was the only one built on a 57 S chassis; the other two had a shortened 57 chassis. Briefly displayed at the 1936 Auto Salon in 1936. Winner of every race it entered such as the Grand Prix de l'ACF at Montlhéry 1936, Grand Prix de La Marne 1936, Grand Prix de Pau 1936, 24 hours of Le Mans 1937 with Robert Benoist and Jean Pierre Wimille. Multitude of records for speed and endurance, a number of which have stood for a very long time such as the Sport Car Land speed record until 1966, when it was broken by a Cobra Daytona Coupé. After a crash kept at the factory until Jean de Dobbeleer bought it in 1960 in a batch with 57335 and a spare engine 272 ex 57367 which he put in this engineless car. He restored the car, called it the '24 heures' or 'Le Mans' car and sold it with the papers of 57335 to Gene Cesari. The other car got the papers of 57400. The car was known for a long time as (57335). Buyer Gene Cesari sold it to Pitcairn but he took it back later after which Gene sold it to Truslow/ Richardson. When Eri Richardson owned it, he retrieved many of the original components, which had been left at the factory such as the special head, carburettors and oil coolers. The car went to Europe when Uwe Hucke bought it in 1973. He put the chassis plate 57335 on it, which Lyman Greenlee had found on a junkyard in Dorlisheim. Next owner Nicolas Seydoux. Finally it went back to the USA when Fred Someone bought it. He showed it at Pebble Beach 2003 and the VSCCA Radnor Hunt Ralley and Concourse.

''Références:''

Conway HG ''The Bugatti Register'' 1962:

Conway HG ''A New Bugatti Register'' 1973: 68

Leith S ''American Bugatti Register'' 2003:235

Palmer B ''Bugatti Tank Classic Cars'' 1986(1): 39-43

Nye D ''De Tank. Het Automobiel'' 1986: 38-43

Conway HG, ''Bugatti Magnum'' 1989: 330-7

Laugier PY, ''Bugatti 57 Sport'' 2004: 128-57

Simon B, Kruta J ''The Bugatti 57 S'' 2003: 70-5

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# 57335-2:

the T57T does not exist in the files of the factory of Molsheim

It is in the beginning T57 TT