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Straight 8
Convertible (cabrio)
779 cu in
2
579 ft.lb
4/5
Rear wheel drive
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3, Manual
Petrol
95.27 hp/ton
7035 lb
NCAP
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779 cu in
304 hp
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125 mph
The Berline de Voyage was the sixth car of the Royale series and as the Kellner Coupé it remained unsold and so was kept by Bugatti. As the Kellner Coupé and the Coupe Napoleon it was bricked up behind a false wall during World War II at Bugatti's family house in Ermenonville to prevent being seized by the Nazis.
In 1950 it joined once more the Kellner Coupé and was sold to american Le Mans racer Briggs Cunningham for $3000. The car was soon sold and ended up in The Harrah Collection being sold in auction in 1986 to Jerry J. Moore for $6.5 million. Moore only waited one year until he sold the Berline de Voyage to Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, for $8.1 million. A few years later the car was yet again sold and is now a part of the Blackhawk Collection in California.
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