Reply With QuoteWell, it is a Bugatti, and a Type 57 Atlante. Only a handful made and few survived until today. It is supposedly complete, original and in good condition, needing only cosmetic restoration. Most surviving Bugatti contain lots of replica and adapted parts. One was even advertised at a Pommy auction sale a while ago as "believed to contain some original Bugatti parts".
Unlees your dad has bought carefully and kept them under roof in clean dry storage, then I doubt if he has anything of much value, being familiar with farm hoards, having picked over quite a few in my nearly fifty years involvement with vintage, veteran, and collector cars. Mass produced family cars of no technical merit and without a verifiable competition history have no great value even when expensively restored to a standard the makers never intended and could not have achieved.
I often come across collectors/restorers who are offering their pride and joy for sale at a stratospheric figure who all sing from the same sheet of music. "It cost me $20,000 ($25,000, $30,000, pick a number) to restore and I want to get my money back". They get demoralised after a year or two of no takers particularly when they ask knowledgeable hobbyists what they should be asking and are told, "Not $37,000, but $7,000 is pretty much on the mark".
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