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Bucciali, the mysterious dream cars from Paris

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Created on April 1, 1986

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Ferdinand Hediger

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Bucciali (1931) - Advertising image from 1931 - the horses pull in front

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Bucciali (1931) - from the 1931 sales prospectus

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Bucciali (1932) - Chassis of the Double Huit - photographed in the seventies

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Bucciali TAV 8 - spartanly equipped four-seater number 2

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Bucciali TAV 8 - spartanly equipped four-seater number 1

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Bucciali - The humpbacked radiator grille cut open

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The Bucciali TAV 6 was built from 1927 onwards

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Bucciali (1931) - Front-wheel drive chassis

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Bucciali (1931) - design detail - from the 1931 sales brochure

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Bucciali Double Huit (1931) - from the 1931 sales brochure

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Bucciali Huit (1931) - from the 1931 sales brochure

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Bucciali Record (1931) - from the 1931 sales prospectus

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Bucciali TAV 12 - Bucciali kit model in 1:43 scale

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Bucciali (1931) - Werbedarstellung von 1931 - die Pferde ziehen vorne

Bucciali (1931) - aus dem Verkaufsprospekt von 1931

Bucciali (1932) - Chassis des Double Huit - fotografiert in den Siebzigerjahren

Bucciali TAV 8 - spartanisch ausgestatteter Viersitzer Nummer 2

Bucciali TAV 8 - spartanisch ausgestatteter Viersitzer Nummer 1

Summary

With a handful of luxury cars, the brothers Angelo and Paul-Albert Bucciali succeeded in sending thousands of visitors and the trade press into dreams, enthusiasm and enraptured amazement at the Paris Motor Show from 1926 to 1933. But not only that, they also laid the foundations for decades of speculation, conjecture and confusion among collectors, historians and experts. Even today, despite many efforts and numerous publications, it is still not possible to shed light on every last corner of the history of these fabulous luxury cars. This report is an attempt to paint a reasonably accurate picture of the extravagant Bucciali. It is based on contemporary documents and most of the articles and brand histories published in the last 30 years by such renowned connoisseurs as Jacques Rousseau, Griffith Borgeson, Serge Pozzoli, Gerard Crombac, Michael Sedgwick and others.

This article contains the following chapters

The first buc
Pioneers of front-wheel drive
The move towards the grandiose
"Double 8 chassis"
What has been preserved for posterity!

Estimated reading time: 14min

Preview (beginning of the article)

With a handful of luxury cars, the brothers Angelo and Paul-Albert Bucciali succeeded in sending thousands of visitors and the trade press into dreams, enthusiasm and enraptured amazement at the Paris Motor Show from 1926 to 1933. But not only that, they also laid the foundations for decades of speculation, conjecture and confusion among collectors, historians and experts. Even today (the year is 1986), despite many efforts and numerous publications, it is still not possible to shed light on every last corner of the history of these fabulous luxury cars. This report is an attempt to paint a reasonably accurate picture of the extravagant Bucciali. It is based on contemporary documents and most of the articles and brand histories published over the last 30 years by such renowned connoisseurs as Jacques Rousseau, Griffith Borgeson, Serge Pozzoli, Gerard Crombac, Michael Sedgwick and others.

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