#type 51

[en-wheelz-me]

#1915 cadillac #cadillac #type 51 #car #cars #classic #luxurycars #luxury

[timelessvehicles]

Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix Champion Gets a Parisian-tailored Winter Suit

The wonderful history of this charismatic car, Nethercutt’s 1931 Bugatti, is significant in both motorsport and automotive design worlds. Having won the Monaco Grand Prix for the Bugatti factory team in the race’s 3rd year of existence, driven to victory by none other than Louis Chiron, was just the opening act for this Type 51.  Today, hypercar enthusiasts know the 2023 Bugatti Chiron as the multimillion dollar successor of the Veyron, named after the 1930s champion driver. After proving its agility on many tracks, Grands Prix and rallies, with such legendary drivers as Chiron and Rene Dreyfus piloting, sn (serial number) 51133 was eventually purchased for slightly less competitive use, along the ‘Allee des Acacias’/ in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris where young gentleman drivers showed off their latest sports cars.  According to Pierre-Yves Laugier, Bugatti Owners Club???? Interestingly, the coupé creator’s family’s railway carriage factory location ultimately became the Citroën factories and competitive driver Bith benefited from his father’s role as head doctor for the Paris Police - something that may have been helpful on occasion. Bith enjoyed a close relationship with his family and explains he never once had an accident!

With a love for speed, driving precision and engineering, 26-year-old heir André Bith would’ve known the barely distinguishable visual differences between the Type 35B and its successor, the Type 51. The DOHC, inline 8-cylinder (hemispherical) supercharged 2.3 liter motor produced 180hp, reaching speeds of 140mph in race trim!  It was among the most powerful and tough racing engines of the 1930s, often making up over 2/3s of the entries in 1930s Grands Prix. The engine bay showed off demascened, engine-turned finishes and right angles, appearing artistically inspired by the contemporary art movement of Cubism.  However, historian Griff Borgeson explains that “the Boss” (as company founder Ettore Bugatti was known), ‘would have no waste of materials nor effort.’  Of the 40 Type 51 and 51A produced, only 23 are known today, the other 17 were perhaps destroyed in war - or absconded in such chaos.

Nethercutt’s sn 51133 survived both world wars and thanks to their thoughtful stewardship, was reunited not only with its Parisian tailored finery but also its doting owner who originally commissioned the alluring coupé ‘build’ back in 1937.  At age 91, Bith fondly remembered driving the open, spartan 1931 racecar he purchased in 1935. Its pedigree already established having been driven to team victories and then owned by the dashing, scarf-wearing celebrity driver, Louis Chiron, who received the car as payment from ‘The Boss.’ The cold French winter of 1936 had Bith looking for a solution and he found inspiration in his pal Jean Bugatti’s Type 57SC Atlantic when they met for lunches.  Notably there were just 4 Atlantics built on a wheelbase longer than the Type 51, between 1936 and 1938.  The 2010 transaction for nearly $40million made it the most valuable car in the world - and one remains missing…

Bith began sketching with designer friend André Rolland.  They found lightweight Duralumin was the latest and greatest material but at the time but few had worked with it.  They were delighted to find an Italian craftsman at Dubos Carrosserie was eager and competent to work with new aluminum alloy’s lightweight, high mechanical resistance.  Dubos agreed to do the project for just 20,000 FRF- IF Bith committed to putting the car in many concours and design/styling competitions.  Bith explained to “Bugatti Magnum” Hugh Conway that he paid 18,000 FRF to Chiron in 1935 for the 1931 racecar.  His mechanic Mr. Schaeffer spoke highly of the brothers Dubos, and did some modifications such as centering the gear lever on the box, fitting a Citroën TAV handbrake to the aluminum dashboard and adding a dynamo to charge the battery. Bith specified seats, not a bench, and no speedometer - the result was a far more uniquely tailored and useful car than a brand new Type 51 which would’ve cost 165,000 FRF then.  One USD bought 22.24 French francs in April of 1937 equating to USD $7,419.- which is ironically about the same factor as the inflation rate change from then to now.  $1 then purchases about as much as $21 today, making today’s prices 20.96 times higher. A new Type 51 today might be priced between $155,000 to $165,000 IF the car market remained the same, however, one new Bugatti Chiron model today is priced at USD $3.25million!

In April of 1937 Dubos began work on sn 51133 near The Boss’s preferred coach builder at Rue de Debaracdere, in Paris’ District XVII, on Rue de Sablonville - so they might’ve shared talent and materials. Dubos was respected for bodying Talbot Lago, Delahaye, Renault and Avions Voisin - such as what won Amelia this year. The Carrossier would have no issue expediting a 6-year-old racecar turned coupé - since the brand new Bugattis were bodied nearby.  The Nethercutts wisely and fortunately were able to involve Bith in everything possible from historic documentation to even locating a steering wheel affectionately mounted on Bith’s wall.  After owning a great many wonderful cars, Bith calls sn 51133 his Queen and came across an interesting discovery at the Bagatelle Concours of 1991. The same contest which his car won in 1937, shown by Miss France who wore a Drecolle dress the same violet blue as the car.  A fellow who stood admiring one of the world’s 4 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic - the very car that inspired Bith originally - shared information about the disposition of his long lost Dubos coupé. It was now cherished by a fellow who enjoyed driving it in his Colorado Grand event, and once again, after being painted, black, white and black again, bore a similar violet-blue paint color as when Bith sold it. 

The Type 51’s diminutive racing footprint needed an enclosure that wouldn’t slow it down much but would keep Bith and his ladyfriend warm as they sped up to 130mph outside Paris in the wintertime… Decades of using hammers and rollers enabled the Neuilly-sur-Seine facility to beautifully execute the hood and fenders in Duralumin, thanks to their Italian talent, and the body in lightweight steel.  Bith was true to his word and entered the car not only in the Bagatelle but also Ponte d’Auteuil Concours d’Elegance and the Motor Exhibition of October 1937 at Earls Court, not to mention the Paris-Nice Rally et al.  The Dubos coupé was featured in the October issue of “The Autocar” and the November issue “The Automobile Engineer” according to Pierre-Yves Laugier who explains it featured a Type 57 steering shell.  Referring to it as the “Bugatti 57 Sport” he explains it was incorrectly attributed to Saoutchik in the magazine articles of 1937, no doubt of great consternation to Dubos. Bith was heartbroken when, in 1938 a gas attendant filled the tank with ordinary rather than super, and his attempt to remediate the mistake, seemed instead to ruin the engine.  The car was sold and began to suffer.

The chassis retained value to various drivers and collectors while some appreciate the Dubos body which was separated from the car in the 50s and became a Pebble winner in its own right, with faithfully fabricated chassis and engine.  Nethercutts were thrilled to relocate the body in 2000 at a Monterey auction and set about reuniting sn 51133 with its custom tailored, Atlantic-inspired, lightweight, tastefully finned Parisian suit. It is worth noting how Nethercutt’s curator Skip Marketti has dutifully communicated with the variety of owners, drivers and restorers relevant to this car - taking a thoughtfully objective, investigative approach to information gathering as restoration decisions were deliberated.  What may seem overly tedious in some contexts is wise when the rarity, design excellence and accomplishments of a vehicle deserves a level of scrutiny that’s more museum-like or archival sciences while a more artistic, expressive approach may be appropriate in another project.  In fact, the interests of a brand or cities’ industrial history can come into play when very rare, valuable works uniquely represent a nation’s contribution.  Some collectors have even wondered whether a nation could invent reasons to require the repatriation of a particular collectible - all of which we mention simply to honor the stewardship and recognize the different sorts of context faced by restoration projects. Family honor can always play a role in such endeavors - inspiring great record-keeping, accuracy and quality at every step of the process.

#bugatti #vintage #historic #race #classic car #racecar #type 51 #dubos body #concours

[crownedstoat]

Bugatti Dubos Coupe

#1930's #Bugatti #Type 51 #Dubos Coupe #Straight 8 #French style #Art deco

[mopsburgfalls]

Bugatti Type 51

#1930s #1930s car #racing #bugatti #type 51 #straight eight #twincam #twin cam

[travelingwithtools]

Merry Christmas

2023 is almost over! Many thanks to my customers for trusting me to take care of some really special cars this year and to help keep them rolling down the road. The variety of projects I’m able to work on is what keeps this job so interesting and stimulating. I’m looking forward to another great year in 2024, and wish you all a very happy new year!

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#908 #910 #porsche #type 30 #type 35 #type 51 #type 61

[sarahmeier]

31 Bugatti T51

#car #motorsport #type 51 #bugatti

[annabelle--cane]

I like the subtle world building implications in the differences between the usher foundation and the magnus institute. if the usher foundation and the magnus institute were meant to be direct parallels to each other, then the usher foundation would have been established in like the 1870s in boston or nyc, but no, it's in dc and was founded no earlier that 1955, and that gives me less "old respectable academia" vibes and more "insane reagan era project comissioned to weaponize the supernatural in the cold war that didn't work but was never officially shut down."

#tma #marina marvels at life #some types of statements that I think the usher foundation has: #stories about cults and churches that are all incredibly fucked up but only about 10% of them are actually paranormal #area 51 alien sightings (all of these are false and/or true but mundanely explicable) #lotta nuclear power ones that adelard dekker spent weeks of his finite mortal life poring over #bigfoot (these ones are real) #corruption statements about rats in nyc

[f1prompts]

Prompt AU where max notices charles being uncomfortable around some sponsor's son so he jumps in and gets into a fist fight with that guy because he was being disrespectful to charles and charles bandages his knuckles afterwards in the car parking lot and they both have some realisations™

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#Pairing: Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen #Character: Charles Leclerc #Character: Max Verstappen #DW: Protective Max Verstappen #DW: Feelings Realization #Type: Prompt #Index: 51 #f1 fanfic #lestappen

[lenateliier]

Dance gatito dance!

#the grip this movie has on me is insane #i've seen it 7 times already #mind you. it is Monday 16th 13:51 as of typing this #and the very first time I watched it was Friday 13th at 21:00..... #so do with that what you will #ANYWAY YES THE GRIP THIS LITTLE GUY HAS OVER ME IS INSANE #auGh best movie ever i think #puss in boots #puss in boots 2 #puss in boots the last wish #kitty softpaws #puss and kitty #puss in boots fanart #kitty softpaws fanart #fanart #my art

[todayisafridaynight]

kids are dickheads

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 0 #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza 0 #yakuza 7 #yakuza like a dragon #daigo dojima #kazuma kiryu #always feels illegal typing kiryus name like that but its too late i put it first + last #masato arakawa #jo sawashiro #snap sketches #spoilers in the tags because I Ramble #every day i think of them being PoS kids to each other and every day i laugh #anyway drawing this made me realize sawashiro and kiryu are like. The Same Age and that messes with me Terribly #like that doesnt sound right sawashiro feels so much older but... but theyre like. the same age- #hell sawashiro might even be a year younger than kiryu if i know how to do math #kiryu's just perpetually 30 to me what do you mean he's like 51 in Y7 #not old man status just yet but we're getting there #but yeah just wanted to doodle somethin goofy #idk how i feel bout it but i dont wanna work on it anymore so i'm posting it and moving on #didnt even realize this until i was done with the drawing but this really just be a Single Dad moment isnt it #crazy.... #ok bye ima go. idk

[beaulesbian]

was zoro also learning from mihawk how to correctly taunt his opponents with funny frog metaphors?? bc after the timeskip this seems awfully familiar:

chapter 51, zoro's fight against mihawk at baratie

chapter 646, zoro vs hyouzou on the fishman island

in the context of zoro learning from mihawk his swordfighting skills during the timeskip, the fact that he might have also picked up some of his speech patterns is so funny to me

#plus it's mixed with zoro's type of humour so perfectly! #also the manga drawings glowups are so real! look at that #one piece #roronoa zoro #dracule mihawk #fishman island #mihawk also compared zoro to a bunny in the ch 51 so im curiously waiting if that'll be the next thing zoro would use to his opponents lmao #mine #one piece ch 646 #gif:op manga

[iwikitty]

WE GOIN BACK TO 2009 WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

#fanart #planet 51 fanart #planet 51 #glar #chuck baker #general grawl #skiff #eckle #chuck baker x general grawl type shi

[myfckingnameisnuwanda]

Late Night Chatting (Joongdok)

No Star System AU where Yoo Joonghyuk, professional videogamer, and Kim Dokja, videogame developer that knows a lot of bugs, talk through a videogame's DMs.

[>:(]

[Stop frowning! You're going to get wrinkles!]

[i wont]

Those simple words made Kim Dokja's heart ache. He knew yoohyukk_ said that, not to contradict Kim Dokja, but because he knew that he would never live long enough for the lines to etch themselves into his face.

His sickness would stop him before he could.

[It's okay, yoohyukk-ah. I'll make sure you live a long, happy life. Long enough for you to get old and wrinkled!]

He was already gathering the money. He just hoped he would have enough in time.

[i thought you didnt want me to get wrinkles?] Yoo Joonghyuk said, a small smile on his lips [arent you being a bit hypocritical rn?]

[I'm not! I just meant that you weren't supposed to get wrinkles right now, especially not from frowning... Buuuuut it wouldn't be too terrible if you got wrinkles from laughing or smiling too much.] Kim Dokja typed seriously [yoohyukk-ah, I want to make you so happy that it makes a permanent mark on your face.]

Yoo Joonghyuk freezed for a while after that. ReaderKim51 was, surely, trying to kill him sooner.

#yoo joonghyuk #kim dokja #kdj #yjh #joongdok #orv #omniscent reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv txt post #txt post #cus' my laptop has a virus TnT #everytime I type any of the letters of the first row it starts spaming “-------” #and turns off randomly #and also the mouse freezes every now and then #so for now all drawings will be done in txt format #and ill draw them later #51 is just kim dokja's birth date backwards :)

[happywebdesign]

Amy Currell

#Amy Currell #photographer #photography #studio #London #white #portfolio #typography #type #typeface #font #Aeroport #2023 #Week 51 #website #web design #inspire #inspiration #happywebdesign

[winterzz7]

im gonna fuckin eat on these essays for state testing istg

#if hamilton wrote the other 51 i can write an essay in like 2 hours #i love writing essays i be cooking #that is if i dont misinterpret the question... #last year i wrote the wrong type of essay at least once

[melonnade]

Kim Dokja & You, The Reader: A 51% Kim Dokja Character Analysis

Disclaimer: this is mainly an analysis of my own personal feelings while reading the epilogue, although I’m sure this is also applicable for other ORV fans too.

51% KDJ is our narrator. It’s the part of KDJ that loves Ways of Survival, and KDJ first and foremost is a reader to us; that’s how he introduces himself, after all, in the very beginning of ORV. That’s the whole premise, even. One man manages to successfully navigate the apocalypse all because he’s read a book about it. 51 feels genuine and authentic to us in a way that the third-person narrator 49% KDJ, who has lost all interest in TWSA, doesn’t. 49, in comparison, feels like a pale facsimile. 49 can’t be the actual Kim Dokja, because the Kim Dokja we know is on the subway narrating the book to us.

And so as the reader, when 51 is stuck on the subway, it feels like the real KDJ has been left behind. 49 is just an avatar, after all. The actual KDJ isn’t there to experience life after the scenarios with his companions, and that’s why it’s so heartbreaking. Surely, after everything he’s gone through, doesn’t KDJ deserve to be happy?

Here’s the thing: even before falling into the coma, 49 being able to spend time with KimCom still doesn’t feel like a happy ending. There’s a falseness to it; it doesn’t sit right. During the picnic, Yoo Sangah has a conversation with Han Sooyoung; she asks HSY if she really thinks that the other companions haven’t noticed that something is off about Dokja. But then she continues:

“That person is also Dokja-ssi. Doesn’t matter how much percentage he is made out of, there’s no doubt that he is Dokja-ssi. Dokja-ssi who journeyed together with us.”

Yoo Sangah asked her. “Is there any meaning in deciphering which one is really him?”

(Chapter 521)

This raises the following question: who really is Kim Dokja? YSA makes a good point here; 49 has all the important memories that KDJ shared with them, and it’s impossible to truly know 100% of a person, so isn’t it enough that they still have the 49% that matters?

But as a reader, you’re left feeling unsatisfied like HSY because you know that the 49% avatar isn’t really him. Of course it isn’t enough. The 49% of him that’s there isn’t the same KDJ that we know; that one is stuck on the subway.

But that’s not quite right either. Because the KDJ on the subway, as genuine as he feels, is still only 51% of him. We as the readers are like YSA in that respect; we can’t truly know all of KDJ either. KDJ the first-person narrator is different from KDJ the companion, and as the reader, there’s this fundamental distance between our world and his that we’ll never be able to comprehend.

So you’re left looking at 51 thinking, “This is the one that matters! Come get him off the subway!” If you’re me, you might even be looking at YSA thinking, “How can you be happy like this?! This isn’t a happy ending!”

But in reality, you’ve fallen into the same trap. The only part of KDJ’s story you can really know is the parts that he tells you, and as an unreliable narrator, you know he’s leaving things out. Sure, you also know his backstory and his internal monologue. You might even think you can comprehend him the best as his reader, but really, there’s this line between character and companion that we can never fully understand. This line mirrors his own initial experiences with Yoo Joonghyuk; at the start, YJH is only ever a character to him until he learns to see him as a person.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that we don’t know 100% of Kim Dokja either. In the epilogue, Kim Dokja is split into two parts: 49, the part that his companions know, and 51, the part that we know. The part that’s been telling the story. ORV is so brilliant because it engages with us, the reader, as part of the story too. We further its thematic arcs through engaging with it; KDJ is to us as YJH is to KDJ, and that line between character and personhood is further exemplified through this. There’s a sort of hypocrisy there, in criticizing YSA, if, like me, you really only wanted 51 to be happy again.

HSY and YJH’s character arcs make me go wild because they recognize that nobody can ever truly know 100% of a person. They don’t care; they want all of him back anyway. This is all just to say ORV truly is the greatest found family love story ever written.

#orv #orv spoilers #orv epilogue #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kdj #orv character analysis #meta analysis #kim dokja #this was all brought on by me saying ‘hey isn’t it sad how 49 basically just accepts that he’s just an avatar during the group regression?’ #‘like he’s still 49% of him. everyone’s trying to get 51% of him back when that 49%’s right there.’ #‘but isn’t he kdj too?’ #and then it hit me. #oh. OH. i was rooting for 51 too. #49 never really felt like the real kdj to me either. 51 did though. #but wait. isn’t that one still only 51%? #OMG I FELL INTO THE SAME TRAP etc etc #i hope this made sense #i typed this out when I should’ve been sleeping #it might be incoherent rambling my bad