Bugatti Royale (Type 41) - Six of the Best

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
  • 25 were meant to be built, only seven were produced, six survive.

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  • @notinterested5787
    @notinterested5787 5 лет назад +45

    Many years ago, my father and i were at Bill Harrahs museum for the day, when a Royale drove in. It was being "exercised" by one of the restorers on staff. I asked the man driving it if he thought there were six or seven built. His face lit up because i had asked an intelligent question, i guess, and he talked about the car with me for at least 10 minutes. Finally, he said "would you like to sit in it? I am the only person i know that has sat in a five million dollar car.

    • @paveantelic7876
      @paveantelic7876 3 года назад +2

      5? You wish

    • @Su27_Flanker
      @Su27_Flanker Год назад +1

      @@paveantelic7876 your right, it’s more mr dreamer!

    • @SwSJaggar
      @SwSJaggar Год назад

      8 million in the 90s probably like 20 million now

  • @billyjoejimbob56
    @billyjoejimbob56 2 года назад +5

    I first saw the white Royale Convertible at the Henry Ford Museum as a teenaged car enthusiast in 1972. Over the years, I learned to appreciate how rare and special these cars are. I would end up moving to metro Detroit in 1995, and retiring from the auto industry in 2019. Today, I work part-time as a tour guide driving a Model T Ford in Greenfield Village adjacent to that museum. My employee badge allows entry to the museum any time I want to take another look at that magnificent rolling sculpture!

  • @mu8554
    @mu8554 3 года назад +2

    another beatifull film,thank you. Imagine owning 120 Bugatti cars.

  • @user-sk3tn1hr8t
    @user-sk3tn1hr8t 5 месяцев назад

    A very informative & well put together video. There is another replica in the Donington Circuit Motor Museum. Donington Circuit owner Tom Wheatcroft wanted a Bugatti Type 41 Royale so he had a replica made for himself. I have personally seen the Kellner bodied car twice. I saw it pre-auction sale at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, in November 1987 & then post-auction at the Science Museum, London, in January 1988. Seeing the car for the second time was a pleasant surprise because we did not know that the car was at the Science Museum. Also it was being kept in a 'Closed to the public' room that we were not supposed to go into but did so by mistake!

  • @HedserWijbenga
    @HedserWijbenga 3 года назад +2

    Lovely video, amazing vehicle. Bugatti made cars with love, that's why it stood the test of time.

  • @elijahminiaturas5169
    @elijahminiaturas5169 7 месяцев назад

    As a Bugatti Royale lover since 1976 and living in South America, I collected all Bugatti Royales in miniature, in 1/43 scale, made by several diecast brands. My favourite is the black limousine.

  • @carfreakjim
    @carfreakjim 6 лет назад +3

    I have been fortunate enough to have seen the three schlumpf cars and the packard bodied one. I wish I asked more about the packard car when I was working on some of the other cars in the collection it is in, as it seems they claim it has the original frame of the first royale.

  • @OrnumCR
    @OrnumCR 6 лет назад +4

    I was lucky enough to ‘stumble’ across the VW AG owned car on the Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2001. Magnificent machine it was, and to me longer than 6 metres by a good margin. Never ever thought in my wildest dreams that I’d ever see one given I live in Australia.

  • @georgejacob3162
    @georgejacob3162 7 лет назад +2

    I saw the Kellner bodied car before its auction sale at Beaulieu in 1987 and then saw it again about one month later just after the sale at the London science Museum in 1988! There is another replica which was commissioned by Tom Wheatcroft who was the owner of Donington Racing Circuit. None of the originals were for sale at the time so he had one built! That car is at the Donington Museum.

  • @mandrak100
    @mandrak100 4 года назад +3

    Thanks for the brilliant history shared! 👏👏👏

  • @Chr.U.Cas1622
    @Chr.U.Cas1622 5 лет назад +5

    Simply fantastic and totally overwhelming. Beautyful cars, excellent fine craftsmanship. Thanks a lot for sharing and taping this great and very educational video.

  • @cvcoco
    @cvcoco 5 лет назад +8

    Very interesting and thanks so much for all the work, its really appreciated.

  • @barath4545
    @barath4545 9 лет назад +3

    Beautiful video and very knowledgely. I thought I knew what there was to know and I didn't know at least 20% of what you had here, impressed!

  • @Zzyyzzxx7
    @Zzyyzzxx7 8 лет назад +11

    Excellent video. I feel as if I've just had a conversation with a Bugatti aficionado. It's interesting to know the history of possibly one of the most important line of cars and their creators.

    • @poplaurentiu4148
      @poplaurentiu4148 2 года назад +1

      Those Rembrandt mini-sculpted radiator-caps are incredibly crafted masterpieces but are just cherries on top of 6 technical & mechanical marvels.. But.. What is even more interesting as a continuation story to this epic clip above : (Bugatti brand is currently owned by RiMac after the shares purchasing rights).. So anyway recently, one of the famous youtube personality and real-state investors Iranian rich people (M. Khoshbin) still think & dream about these magnificent cars, he also owns few rare editions Bugatti Hermes Veyrons & Hermes Chyron and other Hermes rare edition models like Pagani Huayra Hermes, McLaren Speedtail, P1).. So he recently announced that he might do a new crazy project by asking his friend : Mate RiMac (the new Bugatti CEO) to make for him at least one crazy build "Bugatti Royale" (who knows maybe latter other collectors might want as well a similar or different model) but for him the Royale will be using either a hybrid or a full electric propulsion.. I'm really curious how that project will look like.. Here is the link where he announce this cool-project :
      IT'S TIME FOR A BUGATTI PROJECT CAR! || Manny Khoshbin - RUclips

  • @georgeplaxton3067
    @georgeplaxton3067 3 года назад +1

    Bugatti Royale the king of all cars. the longer the bonnet the more sexy a car looks (similar to Rolls Royce P11 1930)

  • @acarlovonsexron1994
    @acarlovonsexron1994 7 лет назад +5

    What a behemoth of a car, but with such elegance. It's like an 8 foot tall supermodel.

  • @CarlosOliveira-cj3iz
    @CarlosOliveira-cj3iz 4 года назад +2

    Also very good!
    Glad I found this wonderful videos...

  • @hughjazzole2037
    @hughjazzole2037 2 года назад +2

    1 DAY IN 1974 i WAS driving in Bay head,Nj& coming around the corner onto Rt 35 was a little old lady in a Bugatti Royale!!

  • @goodwood-rc4nx
    @goodwood-rc4nx 5 месяцев назад

    had the pleasure to see 4 of the Bugatti Royales at the goodwood festival of speed years ago sadly did not have a camera at that point

  • @RioWasHere
    @RioWasHere 3 года назад +1

    Very well documented, except for the 100 km difference between Mulhouse (where the Schlumpfs are from) and Molsheim (where EB lived & worked). But thanks for sharing this little documentary

  • @James-fx8eb
    @James-fx8eb 8 лет назад +7

    Thank you so much. Excellent work, now I know a lot more about Bugatti!

  • @crushingvanessa3277
    @crushingvanessa3277 Год назад +1

    Beautiful and sad history. I became a fan of Bugattis with the Veyron and Chiron. I know those are the VWs of Bugatti but also come to love the Royale series. All of these have a style and quality all their own including the Veyron and Chiron. I could never afford the real ones so 1/24 models and diecasts will suffice. The video's simple history and music was so easy to understand, not complicated at all and very detailed.

  • @daboyd63
    @daboyd63 6 лет назад +4

    Great video all around, info, pictures, music

  • @richardtsan3792
    @richardtsan3792 6 лет назад +4

    Such a great vid!!! Nicely done, pal!!

  • @paveantelic7876
    @paveantelic7876 3 года назад +1

    Beautiful video

  • @richardtsan3792
    @richardtsan3792 5 лет назад +3

    It's a nicely detailed video! Great work, buddy.

  • @efeberk7784
    @efeberk7784 7 лет назад +3

    A brilliant video worthy of this magnificent car!

    • @johntechwriter
      @johntechwriter 11 месяцев назад

      If God was a car guy, this would be his ride for sure. 😮

  • @jimervin387
    @jimervin387 7 лет назад +3

    I built models of three of those Royales in 1/16 scale for a local enthusiast. He still wants me to build them all but there's too much time involved and I have my own model cars to build.

  • @EgyptianSahara
    @EgyptianSahara 4 года назад +1

    Great detailed clip. I was bewildered at Mulshiem 'Cite de l'Automobile. I have never felt such presence like standing in front of the Napoleon. The Edsers replica is just Majestic to admire. Truly nothing compares. Keep the great stuff coming 😊

    • @UKArtlover
      @UKArtlover 7 месяцев назад

      I think you mean Mulhouse :) it is fantastic I agree

  • @mercedesguycolin3892
    @mercedesguycolin3892 7 лет назад +3

    my favorite classic car.

  • @xenophon8958
    @xenophon8958 4 месяца назад

    you dont think la voiture noire is more beautiful? thank you for making this

  • @Mobythemerpup1852
    @Mobythemerpup1852 9 месяцев назад +1

    No there’s another 1 Specifically modified with a VR8 Engine the Creme Delilah Creme Cruella De-Vil’s Panther De-Ville, Prototype 2 in 1960!

  • @jeanjacqueskasel2607
    @jeanjacqueskasel2607 7 лет назад +2

    wonderful documentary, moving

  • @syahfinoakbar2227
    @syahfinoakbar2227 8 лет назад +11

    The song make the car looks spooky

  • @alexkurz7706
    @alexkurz7706 8 лет назад +3

    thank you! It's great

  • @WarFivevyone
    @WarFivevyone 9 лет назад +2

    outstanding production

  • @johntechwriter
    @johntechwriter 11 месяцев назад

    Still the ultimate. And as this video informs us, it was the product of not one man, but a family of geniuses. Their willingness to go beyond accepted boundaries and thus show humanity its vast potential is in the spirit of working- class soldiers who defeated the troops of the aristocracy during the French revolution. Their motto was: “De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace!”

  • @glennhecker4422
    @glennhecker4422 2 года назад

    I think that the Royale shown at 6:39 is the one I saw at either the Hershey (Pennsylvania; USA) Auto Show in October 1974 or the New Hope (Pennsylvania) Auto Show in August 1975. (Most likely at Hershey.) I DID take a photo of it... but Heaven only knows what happened to that picture,, as I haven't seen it in decades!

  • @johnfalkenstine8377
    @johnfalkenstine8377 4 года назад

    In 1971 I was North of Marseille, driving a damaged Ford Transit van back to Germany. I stopped for gas at a small station with a used car lot. The owner had a baby Royale with a 4-door ugly yellow Fiacre body on it, very complete and drivable and with the alu disc wheels. He was asking five thousand Francs NF, i.e. one thousand dollars for it, "because it was a gas hog."

  • @telewiza
    @telewiza 8 лет назад +6

    85.000 for 30 Bugatti's.... In those days was a stingray 27,000 dollar. So it was a real bargain.... Including a royale it should be now maybe 75 million...

    • @wouter4730
      @wouter4730 3 года назад

      Not really. A brand new Cadillac 62 series would sell for around $5000.- back in 1964. $85000,- would account for 17 luxury cars. Most Bugatti's were projects I would believe.

  • @jeffgehrke
    @jeffgehrke 5 месяцев назад

    In the 90s the place I worked at was a big restoration shop with over 40 employees we restored the Bugatti for the Blackhawk collection what a massive massive car I couldn’t believe the alloy wheels that the inside of the wheel was used as the brake drum very strange. we took it to Pebble Beach to show it but the one problem this car had from point of purchase was that the water jackets in the engine cracked somehow and previous people had JB welded up all of the inside of the water jackets this car couldn’t run for over 30 minutes without overheating very disappointing and the customer Blackhawk would not pay for those kind of repairs they just wanted a cosmetic restoration

    • @jeffgehrke
      @jeffgehrke 5 месяцев назад

      His car supposedly since 1931 From what I understand to be passed off from collector to collector for years I believe that water jacket problem persisted throughout its lifetime sorry to hear that it was held in a Korean customs deal for years I hope the car is OK but still the problem wasn’t fixed

  • @narberto
    @narberto 6 лет назад +3

    Excellent information, great job, thank you so much!!
    Just one comment. The second prototype, the Fiacré coupé, (the one shown at 2:52) is not the car shown at 3:00 with Hellé Nice posing (this one is much smaller, different wheels...).
    By the way, probably it's not fair the way Ms Nice 'achievements' are mentioned. Her life, her career with Bugatti, that shameful and regrettable Louis Chiron's accusation of being a Gestapo's agent during WWII (never proved) deserve better memories. And Chiron, on the other hand, had no problem racing with Mercedes in 1936, sponsorized by the nazi government. After her speed record with a Type 35, looks like the Bugatti Chiron should have been named after her... ;)

  • @jerrynorton1080
    @jerrynorton1080 9 месяцев назад

    That 'replica of the prototype', the builder/owner says it was researched as The Prototype's chassis, the one Himself seems to have wrecked.

  • @hdevo80
    @hdevo80 2 года назад

    Nice video, nice cars!!! Bugatti Royale the best car! Thank you from Hungary!

  • @HeinzBecker-ih5fv
    @HeinzBecker-ih5fv 4 месяца назад

    The Music is composed by J.S. Bach the famous German Composer Born 1685 … more then 440 Years ago!

  • @rolanschneider5182
    @rolanschneider5182 9 лет назад +3

    That was wow! :)
    "Divine Cars"

  • @xxsinatra81xx32
    @xxsinatra81xx32 9 лет назад +2

    Great Video

  • @crushingvanessa3277
    @crushingvanessa3277 11 месяцев назад

    Being a chaufer must have been better than owning the car since you got to drive it.

  • @marktabla5434
    @marktabla5434 3 года назад

    9:33 Tried building the Testors "1931 Bugatti Royale Type 41 Berlin de Voyage" model car to look like that when I was 12 but haplessly tried painting the tires with white paint to make them match the whitewalls on my 1/24 scale Monogram yellow 1934 Duesenberg SJ Torpedo Phaeton which made me realize immediately that no Bugatti has EVER needed whitewalls and for good reason. Oh well. I displayed the finished model alongside my Testors 1/24 Mercedes 540K whose door panels on the molding were the color of a manilla folder, not the glossy gray shown on the box - I suppose to induce young boys to go out and buy glossy gray model spray paint - also sold by Testors? Neesless to say, I never did find the paint at our local Kay-Bee Toy Hobby Shop where I bought my model car kits back in the day but the experience did afford me an appreciation of some of the finest cars ever built. Also, I had no idea the Bugatti's hood ornament was an elephant. Couldn't quite make out what that tiny 1/24 scale piece of chrome-plated plastic in that model kit was supposed to be. 40 years later, mystery solved!

  • @jeanmichelchevalier3305
    @jeanmichelchevalier3305 Год назад

    magnifique un seul mot j'ais visité deux fois le musé des frères Schlumpf et pourrait-on avoir les aires de musique qui accompagne le visionnage merci par avance cordialement

  • @oasisdo
    @oasisdo 7 лет назад +4

    No Italian but French ! So we could say that Cadillac is a french company...

  • @IPv6people
    @IPv6people 2 года назад

    Nice pictures, nice stories. Text is sometimes hard to read.

  • @Jarzki1981
    @Jarzki1981 9 лет назад +1

    Are you following all of this?

  • @0611930024838
    @0611930024838 3 года назад

    love it how a random Japanese firm owns one of these super rare cars

  • @raphfelix6305
    @raphfelix6305 8 лет назад +1

    what is the music in the video, i love it

    • @Braun30
      @Braun30 8 лет назад +1

      Toccata and fugue by J.S. Bach

  • @ebonycrapps3035
    @ebonycrapps3035 Год назад

    stock cars back to the roads after the next formula!

  • @goldenmanuever1176
    @goldenmanuever1176 8 лет назад

    My wax was named after this car!

  • @HeinzBecker-ih5fv
    @HeinzBecker-ih5fv 4 месяца назад

    Molsheim 1909 !!! Das Elsass, Allemagne, Deutsches Reich. Germany. Tschung Gua, Tedesco, Al Germania… soviel Korrektheit muss sein!

  • @fedisc
    @fedisc 2 года назад

    Amazing video, thanks! Can anybody tell me the piece of music? I know it but I don't know who or what masterpiece is. Thanks

    • @jerrynorton1080
      @jerrynorton1080 9 месяцев назад

      Started out with bach, toccata and fugue (d minor?) but i lost track after that...

  • @didierlemoine6771
    @didierlemoine6771 5 лет назад

    seems like each r unic !

  • @clio2rsminicup
    @clio2rsminicup 8 лет назад +5

    Alsace, area of France in its North-East have no direct borders with Italy, so your "cross"... Monsieur Bugatti is an Italian immigrant in France like more Italian peoples in this time. And he is 100% French and French citizen when he founded le "constructeur automobile" Bugatti" in France. No links with a manufacture or trust in Italy. The Bugatti brand, the real, so before this shit and sad WW2 and no the current Bugatti which is just a famous name buy by VW (even if the current Bugatti cars always are are assembled in the same place in France/Alsace) is 100% French Brand founded, developed and built with French technologies (the best and most powerful in the world before this shit WW2) and in France by a former Italian immigrant

    • @alexanders.380
      @alexanders.380 7 лет назад +2

      you probably should know that Bugatti was founded in German Empire, not France. Only after WWI Alsace became French

    • @gchelem
      @gchelem 6 лет назад +2

      No Alsace returned to France, very different!

    • @gchelem
      @gchelem 6 лет назад +1

      By the way the people from Alsace never admitted to be German. Look inside a Bugatti, all instruments are in French not German...

    • @pisomark
      @pisomark 3 года назад +1

      Bugatti is a 100 percent French car, and Ettore Bugatti was born and raised in Milan, by an Italian family, and emigrated in France when he was young but already a man. He was already fixated in cars and learn the foundation of mechanics in Milan, so he was a French citizen, but 100 percent an Italian man

  • @didierlemoine6771
    @didierlemoine6771 5 лет назад

    Wonder how much it cost now ?

  • @verygood7155
    @verygood7155 5 лет назад

    The reason only 6 remain is because only six were ever completed and of those six, two were kept by Bugatti.

    • @TheExStig
      @TheExStig  5 лет назад +1

      Seven were completed one was wrecked 5:58 and of those seven, only four were sold.

  • @VG-ey4gi
    @VG-ey4gi 3 года назад

    "In 1909 he opened his car company across the border in Molsheim, France" . False, it was in the German Empire.

  • @arturolaizza8044
    @arturolaizza8044 3 года назад

    Emigrantes italian genio

  • @mikejones-go8vz
    @mikejones-go8vz 3 года назад

    Could’ve made the info clearer

  • @MelanGressive
    @MelanGressive 9 лет назад

    No matter where I look, the length of the car is said to be 6.4 m and the wheelbase 4.3 m. Having looked at photos and drawings of the car, this simply cant be true. The relationship between the two is way off. Anyone have the real measurements? Thanks!

    • @ajwasp3642
      @ajwasp3642 7 лет назад

      It looks like a locomotive, next to this guy, 09:59

    • @BlueSky......
      @BlueSky...... 6 лет назад

      the wheelbase always seems short for the length

  • @sammysouth8372
    @sammysouth8372 5 лет назад

    Toccata by j.s. Bach

  • @luisconceicao1801
    @luisconceicao1801 5 лет назад

    O carro da pantera cor de rosa.

  • @HeinzBecker-ih5fv
    @HeinzBecker-ih5fv 4 месяца назад

    For those who believe Bugatti is a french car… No No No Bugatti was established in Germany ! Molsheim, Elsass! After ww1 France took over old German Territorial Areal! But in the Core it’s is frankish! France and Allemagne are Brothers! ! I Love the Grande Nation La France … and I know La France loves L‘Allmagne…

  • @danconlan64
    @danconlan64 5 лет назад

    11:21 W T F does sybaritic mean talk plain

    • @danconlan64
      @danconlan64 5 лет назад

      looked it up. Lotus eating?

    • @TheExStig
      @TheExStig  5 лет назад

      @@danconlan64 It means to be hedonistic.

    • @danconlan64
      @danconlan64 5 лет назад

      @@TheExStig thanx ill see if I can slip in in a conversation

    • @johntechwriter
      @johntechwriter 5 лет назад

      Why don’t you look it up and learn something new? It is not an uncommon word.

    • @danconlan64
      @danconlan64 5 лет назад

      @@johntechwriter right Bunghole look that up

  • @MartinWillett
    @MartinWillett 5 лет назад

    Possessive its has no apostrophe.

    • @TheExStig
      @TheExStig  5 лет назад

      Yeah, been told that a few times. Can't change it.

  • @ChrisDragotta
    @ChrisDragotta 5 лет назад

    He sold two cars. Not such a good record.

  • @Crusader1815
    @Crusader1815 6 лет назад

    In 1909, Molsheim was in GERMANY. France stole it after WW1.

    • @wiamoaw
      @wiamoaw 6 лет назад +3

      True but Germany had stolen it from France in 1871, so yeah, swings and roundabouts...

    • @leneanderthalien
      @leneanderthalien 6 лет назад +2

      Alsace and Moselle was part of France sinze 1648, and before 1871 "Germany" doest exists: german empire was founded in 1871 by Bismarck...But during the Roman occupation (~500 years), was Alsace part of "Gaule" : the East boder was the Rhine...for information, France in german=Frankreich= "empire from the Francks" (Francs was a germanic people, and Charles de Gaulle was a direct descendant of Francs...)

    • @Crusader1815
      @Crusader1815 6 лет назад

      The native people there are German and speak German, and it's been that way since Roman times. Same as South Tirol. And Germany ALWAYS existed. It was simply not unified into one nation state until 1871.

    • @morzhed-hoqh732
      @morzhed-hoqh732 6 лет назад +1

      Bugatti was Italian. Alsace is a French Region of German culture. Welcome to Europe!

    • @wiamoaw
      @wiamoaw 6 лет назад

      + Naughty internet person Can't we all just move forward as human beings and forget this 'nationality' thing which does nothing but cause wars? There's no right or wrong answer...was the point I was trying to make...

  • @Kharkovkid
    @Kharkovkid 5 лет назад

    A recently homeless anbd coked up ice cream truck driver lost control of his vehicle today and.... Well, you know the rest.

  • @jasonthamos69
    @jasonthamos69 9 месяцев назад

    Terrible music and should be changed

  • @tellodoroteo2543
    @tellodoroteo2543 Год назад

    I wonder what the poor people arw doing🧐

  • @dawnwarrior5747
    @dawnwarrior5747 10 месяцев назад

    Beautiful video