“I don’t understand.  She was my young fiancée, he was my sexually virile best friend, and they just drove off in my Bugatti Sexarossa.  How could this ever have happened?”  This line from C. Montgomery Burns, Homer’s boss on the Simpsons.  The Bugatti certainly is the car of billionaires like the fictional Burns character and so it must have come as quite a shock for one family who opened a dusty garage of a deceased relative only to find the car that dreams are made of, according to the New York Times:

“Dr. Harold Carr, an orthopedic surgeon in England, was a recluse in his later years, according to relatives. He never married or had children. So when the doctor died in 2007 at the age of 89, few knew what to expect inside his dusty garage. The last thing Dr. Carr’s relatives expected to find was one of the rarest cars in the world, a 1937 Bugatti 57S Atalante, which The Associated Press said was one of 17 in existence.”

The doctor apparently bought the car decades ago, drove it sparcly, and then had it garaged to be left for posterity.  When found, the car had only around 27 thousand miles and was almost completely original in terms of parts.  The is quite a rare classic car and it certainly has come about in an nusual way.  Perhaps this interesting past will come in handy when the car is auctioned later this year.  Estimates place the car at upwards of 4 million dollars!

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