A great story for car historians. A rare Bugatti that spent 75+ years at the bottom of a Swiss lake is on the block.
A rare Bugatti that was built in the 1920s and spent nearly three quarters of a century on the bottom of a Swiss lake is to be put up for auction on January 23. It is expected to fetch £85,000. The 1925 open top Type 22 is a motorsport icon. Nicknamed the Bugatti Brescia, the model scalped the top 4 places in a single race on the Italian track in 1921. The historic vehicle belonged to a Swiss-Polish architect called Max Schmuklerski. He kept it in a builder’s yard, but the builder grew increasingly frustrated with customs officials incessantly hounding him for import duty on the car. Quite astonishingly, in 1936 he pushed it in to Lake Maggiore. – From Luxury Insider