Keith Martin - Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting: Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure

Drowned Bugattis, Buried Belvederes, Felonious Ferraris, and other Wild Stories of Automotive Misadventure

By Keith Martin and Linda Clark

First published in 2013 by Motorbooks, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company,

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Text 2013 Keith Martin, Linda Clark

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Editor: Jordan Wiklund

Design Manager: Brad Springer

Design and layout: Diana Boger

Cover Design: Jason Gabbert

On the front cover: This Bugatti Brescia Type 22 spent over 70 years underwater in Lake Maggiore, Switzerland.

Digital Edition: 978-1-61058-759-4
Softcover Edition: 978-0-76034-400-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Martin, Keith, 1950

Strange but true tales of car collecting : drowned Bugattis, buried Belvederes, felonious Ferraris, and other wild stories of automotive misadventure / by Keith Martin and the staff and writers of Sports Car Market.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-7603-4400-2 (hardcover/jacket)

1. Automobiles--Collectors and collecting--Anecdotes. 2. Automobiles--History--Anecdotes. 3. Curiosities and wonders--Anecdotes. 4. Automobiles--Collectors and collecting--Biography--Anecdotes. I. Sports car market. II. Title.

TL7.A1M364 2013

629.222075--dc23

2013009405

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MANY THANKS go to this books lead writer, Linda Clark, and all the scribbling gearheads that also contributed, including Tom Cotter, Miles Collier, John Draneas, Tony Piff, Erin Olson, Mike Sheehan, Steve Ahlgrim, Colin Comer, Dale Novak, and Simon Kidston. This book would not have been possible without the help of Gooding & Co., RM Auctions, The Associated Press, Jay Leno, John Apen, Lance Miller, Jeff Stites, and David Tomaro. Finally, we couldnt have even dreamed of this book without the unbelievablebut trueantics of car lovers all over the world for the past century.

Chester Allen
Executive Editor,
Sports Car Market