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1925 Bugatti Type 35B valued around 5 million today.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

It’s a Bugatti Type 35, late 1920s-ish, small 4 cylinder possibly supercharged. Very popular race car at the time.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Third reply, Mystery Foto #28…One more pic of the Charles Addams Type 35 at Bridgehampton.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Addendum to my earlier reply to Mystery Foto #28… Another Long Islander who owned a Type 35 Bug was cartoonist Charles Addams (The Addams Family). See attached photo of his black Bugatti which appeared in his cartoons at least once shown on a trailer being towed by a hearse.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

What a glorious close-up shot of that Grumman Goose. I can see why the PW Seaplane Terminals have become a new obsession for you.

From Beutenmuller Family Collection: The People of the Port Washington Seaplane Terminals

Mystery Foto #28… The photo shows the 1925 Type 35 Bugatti, Chassis #4487.
It was bought new in 1925 by Wallace Bird of Locust Valley (or Brookville).
Eventually sold to Henry Austin Clark of Southhampton for $1750 in 1962.
As for value, the car was sold at a Gooding an Co. auction in 2017 for $3,300,000.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Jan H.

Great profile.  My kind of guy!!
BTW Hershey is shut down as you probably know.
This thing won’t kill us but not going away until a cure is discovered, manufactured and delivered to all.  2023 earliest guess.

From Newsday: Frank Castagna (1928-2020) A Slice of Americana

Terry Dunne:
My father was a field engineer in construction who used to work for Frank Castagna…. my father would have been a hundred. Can’t believe that he was actually older than Frank.  He certainly did build up Long Island to be what it is.  Terry

From Newsday: Frank Castagna (1928-2020) A Slice of Americana

1925 Bugatti T35.
Wallis C. Bird, 1925. Mrs. Marjorie Bird inherited in 1940.
  Some claims that the car was still in France in early 1930s.
Henry Austin Clarke, 1962. Bought $1,750.
Unknown new owner, 1980.
Estimated current value, in my opinion unknown.
Brumos Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, 2017. Bought $3,000,000/3,300,000.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Well, it’s clearly a Bugatti, probably a 1925-31 Tipo 35-39.  I’d guess a 35C.  Sam, III

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Art, The photo captioned, officials at Manhassett (sic) hill,....I think thats Spinney Hill which is east of Lakeville Rd. descending to where Northern Blvd.,Community Dr.and East Shore rd. converge.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 5 - Motorcycling on Long Island Roads

Gary, If Chapple and Baker are….” making the ascent of Manhasset Hill”, .... Whitney Pond would be on the right of them. Also, Belcher Hyde got in wrong labeling it Mitchell"s Pond. Payne Whitney purchased the pond from Charles T. Mitchell in 1903.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 5 - Motorcycling on Long Island Roads

Forgive my nit-pickin’ but Chayes doesn’t know his geography.: “- - - raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The family moved to Long Island - -  - “?  Last I looked, Sheepshead Bay and all of Brooklyn were still firmly attached to the the rest of Long Island!  “Moved out on” would be more correct.  Other than that, a beautiful bio. of a beautiful guy (and he could so easily have turned out like the Donald).  Sam, III

From Newsday: Frank Castagna (1928-2020) A Slice of Americana

Art, The “spray nozzles”/July 3, article. That economy test started and finished in Roslyn at what used to be the George Washington Manor. It went east past the mill up to today’s Northern Blvd,. turned right onto Glen Cove Rd., south to Jericho Tpke., west to Roslyn Rd. and then north to the starting point. The gas tanks were sealed to prevent cheating.

From Kleiner's Korner: Part 5 - Motorcycling on Long Island Roads

-Identify the make, model and year of the Mystery Auto
1924-1931 Bugatti Type 35 grand prix Racer with a straight 8 with supercharger; The same engine that Mike Caruso cut in half and in his 1937 sprint car. See story on Car: http://hixnews.com/1904/Hixtory.htm

-Identify the Long Islander who was the original owner
Wallis Bird from Long island

-Identify the Long Islander who was the second owner
Henry Austin Clark

-What is the estimated value of the Mystery Auto?
1 million

-Kudos question: Where can the Mystery Auto be found today?
In some private collection or Maybe Howard’s place??

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Fred Willets?

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

the car is a Bugatti type 35, year perhaps 1935-1936, original owner was Wallis Bird of Oyster Bay, NY; second owner was Henry Austin Clark Jr. who bought it at the auction of the Bird estate cars in 1962. ( Austin attended the sale in his maroon Phantom I Roll-Royce that was built in Springfield, Mass. by RR of America. )
I do not follow or know or care about current values of cars. I have no idea where the car is today.

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

1925 Bugatti Type 35 Roadster
Wallace C Bird 1st Long Island owner
Henry Austin Clark Jr 2nd Long Island owner
3.3 million dollars
Total guess Vermont

From Mystery Auto #28 Solved: 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Owned by Wallace Bird and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

These were items I had selected for an exhibit I curated for the 75th Anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh’s Transatlantic Flight of May 20, 1927, back in 2002 at the L.I. Studies Institute and later at Sands Point Preserve.  The fabric shows the pinked edge of the original doped linen fabric from the plane, which had to be replaced after the flight.  To my knowledge these items had never been exhibited before I dug them out of the Nassau County Museum’s collections.  The Guggenheim - Lindbergh connection continued throughout their lifetimes.
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Howard Kroplick
Gary, wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

From Update Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Lindbergh Taking Off from Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927

Great find, Gary, for Lindbergh fans everywhere.The fabric seems to be canvas but with a sheen, possibly hand stitched?

From Update Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Lindbergh Taking Off from Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927