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The final Bugatti built at Molsheim by the original company is being sold out of Missouri.

Virgil Exner of Chrysler fame transformed forgotten chassis into a dramatic auto show car.

Straight-eight engine was equipped from new with a supercharger and claimed 197 hp.

Most classic Bugattis are special by collector car standards, but this one occupies an entirely different league. Currently for sale in the United States is what’s widely regarded as the final true Bugatti built at the company’s historic Molsheim factory, and its remarkable story almost never happened.

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The car is a 1965 Bugatti Type 101C-X based on chassis 101506, one of just seven Type 101 chassis ever produced. Better still, it left the factory equipped with the optional supercharged straight eight that bumped power from 133 hp (135 PS) to 197 hp (200 PS), making it one of the most desirable examples before you even get to its extraordinary bodywork.

A Postwar Rebuild That Never Caught On

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The Type 101 itself represented Bugatti’s difficult attempt at rebuilding after World War II. Based largely on the earlier Type 57 , it combined familiar engineering with updated styling, but customers weren’t convinced. Sales never took off, and the final chassis remained without bodywork at Molsheim until 1961.

That’s when American collector E. Allen Henderson bought the bare chassis, and a couple of years later his friend, publisher L. Scott Bailey, realised it could become the perfect canvas for famed designer Virgil Exner . Fresh from his influential Chrysler years and already imagining modern revivals of legendary marques like Duesenberg, Exner saw an opportunity too good to ignore.

Bodied By Ghia In Italy

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The chassis was shortened, the seating position reworked, and the design shipped to Carrozzeria Ghia , which transformed the forgotten Bugatti into a dramatic roadster. Revealed at the 1965 Turin Auto Salon – where Lamborghini would show the naked Miura chassis for the first time – the finished Bugatti Type 101C-X featured a proud horseshoe grille, fashionably 1960s rectangular headlights, a retro-style split windshield and Corvette-like tail.

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Although Exner hoped the car might spark renewed production, that never happened. Instead, it passed through the hands of several notable collectors before joining General William Lyon’s renowned collection, where it remained for more than four decades. Along the way it appeared at Pebble Beach and even reunited with the other surviving Type 101s in France.

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Now offered by classic car dealer Hyman Ltd. in Missouri, the largely unrestored one off is almost completely original and represents the last chapter in Bugatti’s first volume. For that reason, you’re probably going to need a couple of million to get your hands on it, but that’s still less than half what you’ll pay for a new Tourbillon .

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