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A Sleeping Beauty Since ’62, Rare Bugatti to go on block

The car collecting world is buzzing about this weekend's auctio of a French grand touring car from 1938, a Bugatti Type 57C Atalante coupé, one of only about 40 built, that has been garaged since 1962, according to The New York Times.
The Atalante, owned by a member of one of New York’s most prominent families, has not moved from its garage space — it is now sandwiched between a old Farmall tractor and a 1949 Jaguar Mark V sedan — in a New York City suburb for 45 years. It will be auctioned on June 3 by Christie’s at the Greenwich Concours d’Élégance, at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, Conn. Christie’s estimates the car will sell for $300,000 to $400,000.

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From a Bad Marriage, Pretty Babies

AS Daimler and Chrysler negotiate their separation, the sedan widely regarded as the best design to come from their marriage, the Chrysler 300, might imagine itself in a movie moment, The New York Times reports.
In a bittersweet scene, the divorcing mom and dad are ruefully proud of their lovely daughter: “At least our marriage produced her!”

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On This Run, Way More Bandits Than Smokeys

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” a Burt Reynolds romp that starred a 1977 black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a driving event called the Bandit Run 2007 was held from May 15 to May 17, according to The New York Times.About 200 participants in 85 cars traveled the 660 miles from Texarkana, Tex., to Atlanta, the route traveled in the movie. The event was open to anyone; owning a Trans Am with gold striping and a “thunder chicken” graphic on the hood, was not required.

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