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Wow! Verey nice!
Ron
Ron
Looks good. Reminds me of a Koenigsegg CCX with small wheels and a less appealing front end.
To me, the pushed in front and small wheels make it feel "retro", if that is the right word.
To me, the pushed in front and small wheels make it feel "retro", if that is the right word.
Interesting. I thought that that photo looked familiar and I recognized the style, and indeed I have seen it before. It is a drawing made by a good friend of mine here in Spain, David Rodriguez, made from drawings sent to him by Tom.
David is quite talented at producing these sort of drawings, and will be appearing in the next POCA profiles with a drawing of what was to be the next Vallelunga, and his interview with the designer regarding the car and his experiences with Alejandro coming up with the concept.
Here is what David had to say:
"Charlie, that's my own illustration of Tjaarda's Bugatti EB110 proposal.
You surely remember there was a Bugatti re-incarnation in Italy which lasted from 1987 to 1996.
It was a one man's dream; Romano Artioli, Suzuki importer for Italy and ex-Ferrari dealer in Germany -he lost Ferrari's favour once he began his new venture. Ferrari too would pressure banks around not to loan money to Bugatti, while also pressing specialists suppliers not to work for Bugatti if they still wanted to be favoured by them-.
Artioli hired Gandini for designing the car; first car was very dissapointing and a second design was requested to Gandini again, but a battle for some detailed provoked that Gandini left the project, which was internally re-styled at Campogalliano -where Bugatti was based-.
But Artioli was the same dissatisfied, although now he was urged to go on with the car the way it was if he wanted something true to unveil in Paris for the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti's birth. So he asked Tom Tjaarda to suggest a new nose for the car. Tjaarda made a number or proposals for restyling the nose, and during one of his visits to Campogalliano, Artioli asked him to doodle some complete shapes of what his ideas for a Bugatti were. Those sketches and doodles all were left at Campogalliano. In 2006 I asked Tjaarda to try to remember and recreate what he had done for Bugatti. In 2008 I finally had from him 5 A3 format drawings of Bugatti shapes which recreated those he had done many years back. And so I made the corresponding illustraton, which is in the Tjaarda publicity image you found yesterday."
David is quite talented at producing these sort of drawings, and will be appearing in the next POCA profiles with a drawing of what was to be the next Vallelunga, and his interview with the designer regarding the car and his experiences with Alejandro coming up with the concept.
Here is what David had to say:
"Charlie, that's my own illustration of Tjaarda's Bugatti EB110 proposal.
You surely remember there was a Bugatti re-incarnation in Italy which lasted from 1987 to 1996.
It was a one man's dream; Romano Artioli, Suzuki importer for Italy and ex-Ferrari dealer in Germany -he lost Ferrari's favour once he began his new venture. Ferrari too would pressure banks around not to loan money to Bugatti, while also pressing specialists suppliers not to work for Bugatti if they still wanted to be favoured by them-.
Artioli hired Gandini for designing the car; first car was very dissapointing and a second design was requested to Gandini again, but a battle for some detailed provoked that Gandini left the project, which was internally re-styled at Campogalliano -where Bugatti was based-.
But Artioli was the same dissatisfied, although now he was urged to go on with the car the way it was if he wanted something true to unveil in Paris for the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti's birth. So he asked Tom Tjaarda to suggest a new nose for the car. Tjaarda made a number or proposals for restyling the nose, and during one of his visits to Campogalliano, Artioli asked him to doodle some complete shapes of what his ideas for a Bugatti were. Those sketches and doodles all were left at Campogalliano. In 2006 I asked Tjaarda to try to remember and recreate what he had done for Bugatti. In 2008 I finally had from him 5 A3 format drawings of Bugatti shapes which recreated those he had done many years back. And so I made the corresponding illustraton, which is in the Tjaarda publicity image you found yesterday."
OK CALL IT A PUSHED IN!LOL