When Doug M. sent in photos of this 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Atalante, I thought it looked familiar. Sure enough, it sold back in 2007 at the Greenwich Concours for an eye-watering $852k – about double what the auction house had predicted. It had been parked for 45 years, but the new owner was able to clean it up and enter it in the preservation class at Pebble Beach. Then the car was displayed at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in the “Barn Finds” exhibit. Hemmings even ran an article about how the new owner wanted to keep it original. Well, it looks like a little more work has been done and that the car is going to be auctioned off at RM’s upcoming Driven By Disruption sale. It should be interesting to see what it goes for. Until then though, check out the “before” and “after” photos and let us know if you think it has undergone a little more than a preservation job. Either way, this is one beautiful machine!

Source: RM Auctions