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Volume 29, Issue 3

Bugatti Festival Molsheim 2024

By Jaap Horst
The 2024 Festival was different, and a lot better, for me as I was able to drive quite a few distances. Thanks to Robert Braunschweig and his T57 Stelvio, chassis 57202 Currently for sale, incidentally.
The programme started on the Thursday, September 12, however, we arrived Thursday-evening, and participated from the Friday morning.

On the Friday there was a relatively short drive to the Europapark amusement park in Germany, just over the border (on the other side of the river Rhine). At the Europapark, one of the best amusement parks in Europa, the focus was on the new "Voltron Nevera powered by Rimac" rollercoaster ride, with first a long talk about the Europapark and how it was started by the Mack family. No details on how the Voltron Nevera ride was designed and built, they did show a video of being in it. After that and lunch, there were several hours to roam free around the park, and of course enter the Voltron Nevera rollercoaster, which I must say is quite impressive. The whole has a Tesla theme (Nikola Tesla that is, not the modern electric automobiles), and especially the indoor waiting space, has an impressive display with live Tesla coils playing music (movie on the right, put on the sound!).

The Saturday was one of a long, mountaineous drive in the morning and an interesting lunch outside. The public presentation was again on the Sunday, after the ceremony at the cemetery.
This time I publish only one movie, which can be seen directly in the special Youtube channel, also accessible from this page.

All the photographs are a bit much, thus I organised all info on this page in the different events within the Festival. You can use the following navigation list to go to a specific event, or just browse through this page.

Friday morning at a hotel in Molsheim

Friday morning we left our hotel to meet with Robert Braunschweig from Switzerland; various times in the last years, we had a ride with him in one of his Bugattis, and it would be the same this year. This time in his Type 57 Stelvio. The parking lot of his hotel was "full" of Bugatti's.

Friday morning - Start from the hostellerie du Pur Sang

The Friday morning was the usual chaos at the hostellerie du Pur Sang, people going inside to get their registration, and outside meeting old friends which they had not seen since last year's event. Of course, also admiring and photographing all the Bugatti's!

Friday morning - Arrival at the EuropaPark in Rust, Germany

All cars drove to Germany, below the Bugatti's on the parking lot there.

Friday afternoon, back from the EuropaPark

Returning back from Germany, crossing the Rhine on a ferry.

Saturday morning - exhibits at the hostellerie du Pur Sang

At the hostellerie du Pur Sang there are some permanent exhibits, which are shown here. These are two tools from the factory, plus a more-than lifesize statue of the Bugatti Royale's dancing elephant mascotte by Rembrandt Bugatti.

The tools are a marble tracing and control table and a large forging base.
The elephant (with your author posing next to it) statue is made of pieces of concrete reinforcing steel. It is made by Joel Vallon, and was inaugurated only a few weeks before, in August 2024.

Saturday morning - Start from the hostellerie du Pur Sang

Saturday morning there was again the start from the club house of the organising club, the Enthousiastes Bugatti Alsace. This time I had a bit more time to shoot photographs of the cars. The departure was achaos, just as the day before... And just like the day before, it was me who was at the wheel from the start!

Below: Robert Braunschweig (on the left) and myself discussing, and departing from the hostellerie. Photographs Jean-Marie Baerts from Belgium, who always is at the festival. Taking photographs, and of course on the Sunday with his paintings.

Saturday afternoon, lunch

After a long drive through the Vosges mountains (or hills, for somebody from the Netherlands every hill seems like a mountain!) we arrived at the lunch site, a beautiful lane in the Schoppenwihr parc. It was a huge barbeque, at one impressively long table.

All Bugattis were parked in one long row, alongside the lunch table.

Above: the long lunch table, the pigs on the barbeque. There was one downside... It was cold, in the sun it was Ok, the tables however were set-up in the shade of the trees.

Saturday evening, impressive cakes for desert!

Saturday evening was the Gala dinner, in a village near Molsheim. The desert was wonderful!

Sunday morning - the Bugattis in Dorlisheim

Sunday morning usually there is the breakfast in Dorlisheim, offered by the municipality there. Quite excellent in fact! Of course, the Bugatti's are parked there in two long rows.

Sunday morning - Ceremony at the Dorlisheim graveyard

After breakfast it was time for the ceremony at Ettore's tomb in Dorlisheim. Incidentally it was on Ettore's birthday, the 15th of September.

Ettore Bugatti is honored with flowers by many different organisations and people, of course the Enthousiastes Bugatti Alsace (EBA, the organizing organisation), the Bugatti family, The Kestler family and last but not least the modern Bugatti factory.

Sunday - Presentation of the Bugattis in Molsheim

After the ceremony, everybody's going back to Molsheim, where the cars are presented to the public, at the Parc de Jesuites.


Not just one or two, but three type 55's! One of them a very beautiful Vanvooren Cabriolet


Various shades of yellow!

Exhibition at the Metzig in Molsheim

At the Metzig in the centre of Molsheim, there was a photo exhibition, though also a nicely made diorama with the new Atelier, the Chateau St. Jean, the old factory and the Hostellerie du Pur Sang.

List of all Bugattis

For those of you who want to know the chassis numbers of the Bugattis, Christian Anicet put them all together. This is for the entire festival. The participation numbers, like #174/7, coonsist of two numbers; the first one is just a following number assigned to the car the first time it participated at the Molsheim Festival. Thus the higher number, the later it participated it for the first time. The second number is for how many times the car participated. This for car #174/7 it is the seventh time it participated at the Festival.

  • T13 R Brescia Sport 1967 ('1318'-R) ED-578-AT (F) Xavier Feidt (fr)
  • #174/7 T22/27 Torpedo Brescia '1925' ('1981') CJ-645-ZP (F), Guy Helmbold (F)

  • #141/6 T35A Course Imitation 1925 (4535) 35 VR 68 (F), François Rinaldi / Robert Braunschweig (fr)
  • #93/16 T35B R Grand Prix 2004 ('4812'-R) EY-423-GM (F), Denis Blanot (fr)
  • #10/4 T35A Course Imitation 1927 (4883) PI-BG 35H (D), K. Rickert (de)
  • #222/1 T35 Grand Prix (BC 040) PA-R 68H (D) and AB 30-12-9, A. Rathmayr (de)

  • #217/2 T37A R Sport 2008 ('37165'-R) FC-961-AK (F), Damien Bourgaux (Véronique II)
  • #147/2 T37A R Sport 1928 (37301) ES-GP 37H (D), M. Winter (de)
  • T37A R Sport (BC 009) CD-827-GM (F), Xavier Feidt (fr)

  • #20/1 T38 Fauxcabriolet 1927 (38136) FE-247-LH (F), Fabrice Reithofer (fr)

  • #26/21 T40 Grand Sport 1927 (40221) GP-XT 40H (D), Ulrich Mayer (de)
  • #21/11 T40 Roadster 1926 (40281) GE-769-ZY (F), Bernard Gagnière (fr)
  • #77/5 T40 Tourer 4-seater 1927 (40445) CQ-463-JJ (F), Maurice Gerber (fr)
  • #221/1 T40 Roadster 1927 (40491) DZ-24-49 (NL), Jos van Genugten (nl)
  • #23/20 T40 Torpedo by Bousson 1927/33 (40636) DE-22-51 (NL), Jacques Paul (nl)
  • #114/16 T40 Cabriolet Roadster 1927 (40642) 94 BCX 67 (F), Jean-Pierre Woelffel (fr)
  • #28/7 T40 Grand Sport 1929 (40842) 111 ALF 67 (F), Christian Feidt (fr)

  • #169/9 T38/43 Grand Sport 1928 ('43240') EB-547-EB (F), Cyril Gauthier (fr)
  • #224/1 T38/43 Grand Sport (BC 039) JO 5543 (GB) B. Vendiesse (fr)

  • #228/1 T44 Torpedo 1928 (44499) 11V 7444 (CZ) and C-75.435 (CZ), Jakub Stauch (cz)
  • #99/3 T44 Cabriolet Grand Sport 1928 (44564) BG-631-NJ (F), Xavier Lebeuf (fr)
  • #118/16 T44 Million Guiet 1929 (44817) AC-388-HG (F), Christian Schann (fr)
  • #89/18 T44 Torpedo 1929 (441010) AC-260-KL (F), Xavier Feidt (fr)
  • #88/5 T44 R Torpedo 2011 ('441224') BX-633-VD (F), Jean-Jacques Kielwasser (fr)
  • #46/6 T44 Torpedo 1931 (441322) GE-585 588 (CH), Alexis Couturier (ch)

  • #201/4 T46 Cabriolet by Gangloff 1930 (46393) 14V 0633 (CZ) and 570-VN (F), Ladislav Novak (cz)
  • #227/1 T46 Cabriolet 1931 (46524) BL-227 255 (CH), Andrea Capra (ch)
  • #211/2 T46/50 R Cabriolet Weinberger (BC 139) 4312-NV1 (F), W. Weibel (ch)

  • #207/2 T49 Coupé by Weymann 1930 (49117) 3214-RE5 (F), Robert Schramm (de)
  • #137/14 T49 Cabriolet 1930 (49405) EQ-477-QX (F), Maurice Goepp (fr)
  • #210/2 T49 Roadster 1933 (49562) BL-48073 (CH), Daniel Schuler (ch)

  • #49/21 T51 R Grand Prix 1986 (BC 087) ES-C 56H (D), Dino Bertazzoni (de)
  • T51 Grand Prix (unknown) FR-07296 (D), driver unknown (de)

  • #225/1 T55 Jean Bugatti Roadster 1932 (55219) WOL-C 55H (D), V. Dold (de)
  • #120/10 T55 R Super Sport ('55255'-R) 1001 ZR 25 (F), Yves Millot (fr)
  • #67/2 T55 Vanvooren (unknown) BS-14532 (CH), Dominic Labhardt (ch)

  • #142/10 T57 cabriolet Stelvio 1934 (57202) BL-9934 (CH), Robert Braunschweig (ch) and new owner (ch)
  • #51/19 T57 Galibier 1934 (57225) 928 NV 67 (F), Philippe Haag (fr)
  • #17/6 T57 Coupe 1934 (57250) EC-567-YP (F), A. Friederich (fr)
  • #163/11 T57 Cabriolet by Vanvooren 1934 (57274) CR-275-TR (F), Philippe De Gail (fr)
  • #205/2 T57 Torpedo 1934 (57300) WOL-T 57H (D), Klaus Dold (de)
  • #162/6 T57 Ventoux 1935 (57308/57452/57557) EA-085-MT (F), Jean-Louis Kenck (fr)
  • #52/5 T57 Cabriolet by Corsica 1937 (57485) AP-049-YL (F), Bernard Guilain (fr)
  • #83/20 T57 Ventoux 1938 (57628) 57 ATM 67 (F), A. Friederich (fr)
  • #223/1 T57 Cabriolet by Tuscher 1938 (57669) BL-57969 (CH), Hans Ruedi Schmid (ch)
  • #220/1 T57C Stelvio by Gangloff 1938 (57678) FN-629-DS (F), Gérard Lapostolle (fr)
  • T57 C Galibier 1939 (57778) BA-H 126 (SK), driver unknown (sk)
  • #136/10 T57C Cabriolet by Letourneur & Marchand 1939 (57809) BW-510-MB (F), F. Friderich (fr)
  • #200/4 T57C Cabriolet by Letourneur & Marchand 1939 (57841) BA-H 409 (SK), Karol Pavlu (sk)

  • #12/6 T35B R Grand Prix (PS) EP-522-YY (F), André Trunzer
  • #34/7 T35B R Grand Prix (600 PS) ER-347-ST (F), Jean-Marc Metzger (fr)
  • #123/16 T35B R Grand Prix 2005 (PS) DY-650-WL (F), Fermo Rossi (fr)
  • #170/6 T35B R Grand Prix (replica) FQ-916-CX (F), Marc Solvet

  • #63/21 T37 R Sport 1995 (replica) 37 XR 67 (F), Germain Weiss (fr)
  • #151/12 T37A R Sport (replica) 37 ADW 67 (F), Arsène Munch (fr)
  • #157/7 T37A R Sport (PS) BW-302-XP (F) René Letzgus (fr)
  • #171/8 T37 R Sport 2013 (replica) CZ-857-AS (F), Olivier Baudoin (fr)
  • T37 R Sport (replica) 895 EKB 77 (F), Jean-Marc Thibaux (fr)

  • #160/11 T43 R Grand Sport (PS) CV-181-QQ (F), Gerald Generas (fr)
  • #206/2 T43 R Grand Sport (PS) MTK-F 431H (D), Hoebig (de)

  • #22/4 T51 R Grand Prix (replica) BK-258-LP (fr)


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