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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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