BUGATTI ROYALE LUXURY CAR
                  ON EXHIBIT AT
 AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG MUSEUM

                  Recreation of Huge
           1930 Coupe de Ville Napoleon


          A faithful recreation of a 1930 Bugatti Royale
          (Type 41) Coupe de Ville Napoleon, a luxury
          motorcar of enormous proportions, is on
          temporary exhibit at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg
          Museum, Auburn, Indiana. Museum president
          Robert Sbarge announced that the car is on loan
          from an anonymous automobile collector in Great
          Britain.

          Only six Bugatti Royale's were built in France
          during the 1930's. The modern recreation is of
          number six. Several million dollars and more
          than 100,000 working hours, over a period of
          seven and a half years, were invested in
          recreating the Bugatti body and frame, with its
          terrifically long 12.7 litre, 250 horsepower,
          8-cylinder engine.

          The vehicle's wheelbase is 170 inches, one of the
          longest of any car ever built. An enclosed
          passenger compartment rests behind an open
          chauffeur's seat. An elegantly-curving sweep
          panel on each side of the car separates the two
          exterior colors of black and midnight blue.

          The Bugatti Royale, considered the car of kings,
          was the ultimate 1930's dream machine,
          conceived by Italian car maker Ettore Bugatti.
          Many were intended to be made, each with
          elaborate and costly custom coaches. But
          economic severities permitted only six to be
          built. Only three of the six were sold to customers
          in the 1930's.