Sunken Bugatti fetches £228,000 at auction

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A Bugatti Type 22 Brescia that lay at the bottom of an Italian lake for 70 years has sold at an auction in Paris for £228,000.

The 1925 Bugatti was estimated to sell for between 70,000 and 90,000 euros, but had attracted a lot of pre-sale publicity after it was salvaged from the bottom of Lake Maggiore in July 2009.

The winning bidder was a European collector representing the Peter Mullin Collection in California, where he intends to display the Bugatti in its current state. The second, unsuccessful bidder had intended to restore the car to its former glory.

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