An In-depth look at the effort to create a one-of-a-kind new body for the legendary 1939 Bugatti Type 64. For more details on the build: www.autoweek.co...
Some criticism in the comments below. Nobody claims this is a restoration of a car Bugatti made. They had a chassis + engine & driveline for a slightly different type of Bugatti, that was never finished. It isn't entirely 'original' because some efforts have been made in the past to use it for something. It has been 'restored' to rather lovely condition, but some bits had been worked on, way back, in ways that didn't exist in '39. They took that chassis and built a type 64 body for it, using as close as possible to the exact methods and tooling and materials that Bugatti used at the time. Nobody claims it is an original type 64. It is a very painstaking modern tribute, a reproduction using some original or near original parts, and the most accurate copy of methods and tools they can, nearly a hundred years later. And it is rather beautiful. If they tried to pass it off and sell it to a collector, for millions, as an original car, then the criticism would be justified. But that isn't what they're doing. It's a tribute, and very beautiful.
Love how you tell the story how they built high end cars back then they most have put out very few every year with intense labor most people don't understand what it takes to build a master piece
Incredible work! I am building a buck for a lower valance panel on my ally bodied Aston, and your work inspires me! Cannot wait to see the chassis and removable body. Wonderful, magnifique!
That`s why cars built back in the days are so much more than the cars in our days which are designd on computers and put together by robots... this car has this special flair, this awesome hand crafted quality, it`s own magic. And these people there who can built a whole body out of flat aluminum plates are first-rate artists. Just awesome work!
Truly and deeply the Type-64 project is more than a homage to Bugatti, it's a living stage and a proof of the stunning vintage automotive world when mechanical engineers went further than any human mind can go! At the end of all this I can imagine how someone will feel the smelling of castor oil and old leather. Have a seat,close your eyes and let drive all senses on the way back to a time when chivalry existed between car makers opponents dangerously on the edge of technologies newly discovered
I think that there are some "mistakes" about this car. First, this chassis is presented as being a Type 64 and it is said at 0:25 that there were only three chassis like this one built and the presumed two others are shown at 0:29 and 0:30. It's a bad mistake because there has been only one chassis to be built as Type 64 and the two others cars shown in the video are Bugatti Atlantic built on Type 57SC chassis. The differences are the following ones: the Type 64 was powered by a 4432 cm3 8 cylinders in line engine (bore x stroke: 84 x 100 mm) which developed at that time 170 hp and the wheelbase was 330 cm. The Type 57SC was powered by a 3257 cm3 8 cylinders in line (bore x stroke: 72 x 100 mm) which developed 135 hp, the wheelbase was 330 cm too. So if the wheelbase is the same, the engines are quite different, so that the chassis and the two other cars are not the same types. Secondly, as I said above, there has been only one type 64 chassis to be built in 1939 with mechanical drum brakes and friction-type shock absorbers. The chassis shown in this video has hydraulic brakes and hydraulic shock absorbers and its construction can not be dated from 1936 due to the presence of numerous welds. And the welding process began to be widespread only in the 50s in the automobile industry, before the frames were stamped and riveted under heat. Finally, for me, it makes no doubt that this chassis is not a Type 64 at all, but a Type 101 which has the same wheelbase of 330cm, the same engine as the Type 57, hydraulic drum brakes and shocks absorbers, built in 8 units in 1951.
VonDuesenberg see you spotted mistakes that an average guy like myself that doesn't know to much about these cars when it go's in the museum they will say the same thing maybe those chassis were meant not to have a body on them
For the ability of the personnel that had worked on this car, there's so many errors, plus its their design of the 57SC not Bugatti's, so for my money they might as well call it a Bugatti prototype.
If someone could (cost effectively) build a mass produced aluminum body with a chassis, you would see hundreds of 'tribute' cars. And most with SBCs. I'd like a red convertible with a camero drivetrain. But then I doubt they could get away with it. Remember when Ferrari had all the kit car Daytona's destroyed. VAG would be very protective of their ultra premier marque.
I find that "how it was done" to be unimportant and unnecessary. As long as a vehicle is made with the same materials, in the exact same format (welds and gaps where there should be, the same number of panels, same rivet placement, etc.) then it doesn't seem like anything other than a waste of time to do things a way more difficult and slow way just because that's how it was done back in the day. Ideally, if you're doing a restoration, it seems ideal that you would be able to perfectly replicate a vehicle using modern technology. This saves time and money. Only someone who likes throwing money away would demand that a vehicle be done in the most extraordinarly labor intensive way possible.
+RiouInsuiko i totally disagree with you i am sorry it will never have the same look and feel and sole if u dont hand build it this is wrong with the world they all want it now and not use your hands to build it we need the world to still have these skills
+RiouInsuiko they are not doing a restoration. They are making an original Bugatti. Because of that , the car will be considered an original one. Big difference.
This type of bugatti wasnt made of steel or aluminum it was made out of the incredibly fussy metal known as magnesium. Magnesium at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit will catch fire and can be dangerous thats why do few of these beautiful cars were made. To calk thus a full restoration is false they haven't gone through half the effort it took original bugatti workers to build this. This bugatti on average took 7000+ hours to build.
But... There is no restoration going on. You had a perfect chassis and then you are building the rest your self. Nothing is being restored. But a very cool build anyway
that doesn't look exactly how th car looked in 1937, it wasn't welded, and there is no fucking way the museum wouldn't be convinced that the car looks the same as the REAL CAR. so take it apart, and do it properly. you probably don't know how it really looks. send it to bugatti and let them restore the car for you.
well for one thing.... the car was only a chassis, no body ever. So...... theres no way for it to look exactly like it did in 1937, not to mention it is a 1939.
THE VLOGER I just wrote the same thing maybe those chassis were meant not to have a body on it? Good call someone else called it out if they are going to teach history they need to teach history they right way and build a chassis for that car to right! They are half stepping
This is one example of a chassis that is artwork in itself.The sheetmetal only compliments the lines.Excellent!!
Some criticism in the comments below. Nobody claims this is a restoration of a car Bugatti made. They had a chassis + engine & driveline for a slightly different type of Bugatti, that was never finished. It isn't entirely 'original' because some efforts have been made in the past to use it for something. It has been 'restored' to rather lovely condition, but some bits had been worked on, way back, in ways that didn't exist in '39. They took that chassis and built a type 64 body for it, using as close as possible to the exact methods and tooling and materials that Bugatti used at the time. Nobody claims it is an original type 64. It is a very painstaking modern tribute, a reproduction using some original or near original parts, and the most accurate copy of methods and tools they can, nearly a hundred years later. And it is rather beautiful. If they tried to pass it off and sell it to a collector, for millions, as an original car, then the criticism would be justified. But that isn't what they're doing. It's a tribute, and very beautiful.
Kneedragon1962 This. Great comment.
After viewing many videos on Bugatti I realize Bugatti was ahead of his time.
Also this is a good tribute to the old engineering technique used.
Send a hello to the metal professionals here in Brazil, congratulations for the great work done.
this is so cool,a lift on the body,amazing job guys.
Love how you tell the story how they built high end cars back then they most have put out very few every year with intense labor most people don't understand what it takes to build a master piece
That chassis is art for eyes and soles of car people for all time.
Incredible work!
I am building a buck for a lower valance panel on my ally bodied Aston, and your work inspires me!
Cannot wait to see the chassis and removable body. Wonderful, magnifique!
That`s why cars built back in the days are so much more than the cars in our days which are designd on computers and put together by robots... this car has this special flair, this awesome hand crafted quality, it`s own magic. And these people there who can built a whole body out of flat aluminum plates are first-rate artists. Just awesome work!
Yes...if those who made cars today want to do fantastic cars like this....imagine...!
Cars today have to meet safety standards. That's hobbled design.
Truly and deeply the Type-64 project is more than a homage to Bugatti, it's a living stage and a proof of the stunning vintage automotive world when mechanical engineers went further than any human mind can go! At the end of all this I can imagine how someone will feel the smelling of castor oil and old leather. Have a seat,close your eyes and let drive all senses on the way back to a time when chivalry existed between car makers opponents dangerously on the edge of technologies newly discovered
It must be exciting to do a project like that using technology that has almost been forgotten.
Imagine that this incredible body shape was made with hammers , rollers and a huge doze of special skills.......all that in 1936.....imagine that.
Awesome and beautiful ! ! !
You're not building a car- you're building a museum display.
nice comment
Check out Bad Chad building this car starting with an old Volvo!!
I think that there are some "mistakes" about this car. First, this chassis is presented as being a Type 64 and it is said at 0:25 that there were only three chassis like this one built and the presumed two others are shown at 0:29 and 0:30. It's a bad mistake because there has been only one chassis to be built as Type 64 and the two others cars shown in the video are Bugatti Atlantic built on Type 57SC chassis. The differences are the following ones: the Type 64 was powered by a 4432 cm3 8 cylinders in line engine (bore x stroke: 84 x 100 mm) which developed at that time 170 hp and the wheelbase was 330 cm. The Type 57SC was powered by a 3257 cm3 8 cylinders in line (bore x stroke: 72 x 100 mm) which developed 135 hp, the wheelbase was 330 cm too. So if the wheelbase is the same, the engines are quite different, so that the chassis and the two other cars are not the same types. Secondly, as I said above, there has been only one type 64 chassis to be built in 1939 with mechanical drum brakes and friction-type shock absorbers. The chassis shown in this video has hydraulic brakes and hydraulic shock absorbers and its construction can not be dated from 1936 due to the presence of numerous welds. And the welding process began to be widespread only in the 50s in the automobile industry, before the frames were stamped and riveted under heat. Finally, for me, it makes no doubt that this chassis is not a Type 64 at all, but a Type 101 which has the same wheelbase of 330cm, the same engine as the Type 57, hydraulic drum brakes and shocks absorbers, built in 8 units in 1951.
VonDuesenberg see you spotted mistakes that an average guy like myself that doesn't know to much about these cars when it go's in the museum they will say the same thing maybe those chassis were meant not to have a body on them
@SNOOP U 2 And you're contrary evidence is? Cuz all you did is spout some BS.
French cars were very technical and beautiful before 1970
It would make one hell of a kit car.
For the ability of the personnel that had worked on this car, there's so many errors, plus its their design of the 57SC not Bugatti's, so for my money they might as well call it a Bugatti prototype.
as long as it doesnt get sold as original i am fine with it
You stay on them ok?
didn't the guild automotive restore one using a matching chassis drive trai and they built the body out of magnesium and not aluminum.
Yup you are right
Aviator Guy well that was a type 57, this is a t64.
yowza yowza pretty sure they called it the aerolith too
It's not a car it's art
it is easy to copy all this old cars , the Italian are Spezialist...for all details... (Ferrari etc.).
In Italy you can learn this...
If someone could (cost effectively) build a mass produced aluminum body with a chassis, you would see hundreds of 'tribute' cars. And most with SBCs. I'd like a red convertible with a camero drivetrain. But then I doubt they could get away with it. Remember when Ferrari had all the kit car Daytona's destroyed. VAG would be very protective of their ultra premier marque.
I find that "how it was done" to be unimportant and unnecessary. As long as a vehicle is made with the same materials, in the exact same format (welds and gaps where there should be, the same number of panels, same rivet placement, etc.) then it doesn't seem like anything other than a waste of time to do things a way more difficult and slow way just because that's how it was done back in the day. Ideally, if you're doing a restoration, it seems ideal that you would be able to perfectly replicate a vehicle using modern technology. This saves time and money. Only someone who likes throwing money away would demand that a vehicle be done in the most extraordinarly labor intensive way possible.
+RiouInsuiko i totally disagree with you i am sorry it will never have the same look and feel and sole if u dont hand build it this is wrong with the world they all want it now and not use your hands to build it we need the world to still have these skills
+RiouInsuiko, not your car dude, so your opinion is WORTHLESS.
SuperExcedrin My comment wasn't your opinion. Therefore your comment and opinion is WORTHLESS.
+RiouInsuiko they are not doing a restoration. They are making an original Bugatti. Because of that , the car will be considered an original one. Big difference.
+TFA fab I agree with you %100
This type of bugatti wasnt made of steel or aluminum it was made out of the incredibly fussy metal known as magnesium. Magnesium at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit will catch fire and can be dangerous thats why do few of these beautiful cars were made. To calk thus a full restoration is false they haven't gone through half the effort it took original bugatti workers to build this. This bugatti on average took 7000+ hours to build.
Было-бы круто иметь такое хобби или занятие вне работы заниматься рестоврацией.
How much can these cost...??
i woke up in a new bugatti!
But... There is no restoration going on. You had a perfect chassis and then you are building the rest your self. Nothing is being restored. But a very cool build anyway
Hello,
Did you use steel or alu for the body?
Thanks and regards,
Axel
just realised this is the z-type from gta v. even thou i saw their off brand 3b logo on the car, i didnt know it was buggati
its a bugatti its one of the classics
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More production, less palaver. We know what it's going to be.
can you ask me whats the price for it can i buy one
This is the car from GTA the z type there was 10 build in the world
Says 64.
Shows two 57sc Atlantics.
They need to watch bad chad to know how it was really done.
If Bugatti did not design and build it. ..it ain't a Bugatti it is a replica take the badge off
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just build the car properly... No raining the body and Kak.... Just make it a perfect running and driving car...
If I come to USA can I be a part of your team. Sir
Is it made of magnesium
#Theguild
Dude ... Stop talking so much.. we love Bugatti and know about this car.. just show how you build it...
I have a roll of 80 year old canvas, anyone want a Picasso ?
Pas même une traduction française pour ces voitures originaire de FRANCE !!!
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Should have had bad chad build it in a fraction the time
I woke in a new bugatti gta v Z-Type
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Where is the restauration. Making a new car
it has to be durable because its in a museum wtf?
bla bla bla
Interesting story ruined by stupid camera tricks.
ended up looking like shit
Ugly car
Whhat??
til helvete med deg!!
the type 57 is a lot nicer though
Norwegian aa
There's no doubt they wasted their time the car sits to wide and flat to be a classic
they made an ugly body, Jean Bugatti, wouldn't approved it
sure you know him
that doesn't look exactly how th car looked in 1937, it wasn't welded, and there is no fucking way the museum wouldn't be convinced that the car looks the same as the REAL CAR. so take it apart, and do it properly. you probably don't know how it really looks. send it to bugatti and let them restore the car for you.
well for one thing.... the car was only a chassis, no body ever. So...... theres no way for it to look exactly like it did in 1937, not to mention it is a 1939.
THE VLOGER I just wrote the same thing maybe those chassis were meant not to have a body on it? Good call someone else called it out if they are going to teach history they need to teach history they right way and build a chassis for that car to right! They are half stepping