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27/10/2024 2:36 am
Sold in 1932 to German obstetrician Joseph Fuchs, who specified coach builder Ludwig Weinberger of Munich to build him an open cabriolet. Painted black with yellow, the car was delivered to Dr Fuchs in May, 1932.
As political tensions rose in pre-war Germany, Fuchs relocated to Switzerland, then Shanghai, before permanently relocating to New York around 1937, bringing the Royale with him.
Admired in Dr Fuchs' ownership by Charles Chayne, later vice-president of Corporate Engineering at General Motors. Chayne later found the car in a scrap yard in New York, buying it in 1946 for US$75. Chayne would amass an impressive collection of classic cars in the 1940s and 1950s.
Chayne first had the car running again, then he modified the car to make it more road usable and is said to have spent over US$10,000 doing so, with the completed car featuring from 1947 onwards: a brand-new intake manifold with four carburetors, instead of the original single carb setup; a new paint scheme of oyster white with a dark green trim and convertible roof
In 1957, after running the car for ten years, Chayne donated the car to the Henry Ford Museum
Some of you may remember I started a project a couple of months ago to attempt to recreate the original yellow/black color scheme. Hope you'll catch this here Charles. Unfortunately it is just a 'repaint'. it includes the four carburetor intake manifold rather than what it should be, the original single carb setup. One day I'll get around to redoing it with the correct engine.
With the Chayne car
One of the only original pics of the Fuchs color scheme, and superb scratchbuilt 1/15 version.
27/10/2024 6:03 am
WOW Geoff! What a delightful car and AWESOME build! Just beautiful!!
28/10/2024 4:13 am
and superb scratchbuilt 1/15 version.
Thanks for the history lesson Geoff. I've been to that Museum and remember seeing a GIANT size Bugatti.... I guess it was this car? (I thought it was blue or had blue on it ) What scale is your model? That scratch-built replica looks amazing but 1/15 is such an odd choice. Any reason why the builder chose it? 🤔 🤔
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28/10/2024 5:45 pm
Chris you sent me off on a fascinating search! To answer your/our question there is a whole book on the 1/15th version.
https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/complete-car-modeller-2-by-wingrove-gerald-a-9781861267504
Here is where the model sold for 12500 UK pounds.
Here is a site with more pics. Scroll down a bit, there are more superb creations shown as well.
http://www.bugattibuilder.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=137
Chris the Royale you saw at the Ford Museum it would be the white Chayne version. Chav has taken some great pics of it.
My model is the Lindberg 1/24 kit. Heaps of them around. BTW I'm sure I'm going to need your advice when I tackle the Coupe Binder. First bit of your advice I will be following is take your time!
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29/10/2024 5:19 am
@geoff-jowett Fantastic links & gallery pics.... which of course, I could study all day, correction: all week! Model making at its finest is NEVER lost on me. Thank you very much for taking the time to post all that, I truly enjoyed it! Yes, ALWAYS take your time.... funny, I just said this to a friend who's working on a 1/25 scale model.
Oh, recently I received yet ANOTHER compliment on my Model T speedster... THANKS to you!
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29/10/2024 4:57 pm
thanks Chris love the garage setting, well done!
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