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84 rue de Hegenheim, Hagenthal le Bas, Mulhouse, Alsace, 68220, France
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How it looks from the road,to help you find it.
the figure-head of the Bugatti Royal
Mercedes Double Phaeton 28/50 - 1905
Steyr 220 Cabriolet - 1938
In the back of the museum you will see a seperate hall, all filled with the most famous racing-cars of history, and they are arranged like they were just about to start a race in Le Mans. Inside that hall, you may hear the sound of the engines and the audience screeming - the only strange thing is the fact, that there is NO driver sitting in any car yet.
This is another big achievement in car-history and it became the dream of generations of people living in the DDR ( German Democratic Republic / former east Germany).
Everybody had the dream to posess such a car, as western cars were out of reach anyway, and a Trabbi was rather cheap, once that you had it, BUT most people had to wait for it for several years, after ordering the car.
Standing on the right political side could speed up the waiting-time a lot, beeing on the wrong side might have doubbled the waiting-time...
And people knew a lot of nice words to express their feeling for this great car :
"Rennpappe" (speed-carton)
"Überdachte Zündkerze" (sparking plug with a top)
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There are some technical things about this car, that made it special in many ways:
The hull was made of "Duroplast" - made of cotton and phenol-resin - not able to rost.
The engine had 2 cylindres and 595ccm
26HP and a top-speed of 100km/h
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Roland Garros ordered a car of that Bugatti type 16 and for that reason Ettore Bugatti gave that name to all cars of the type 16.
Roland Garros was a famous airpilote in the war, a well known hero of that time and therefore you see an aircraft in the back.
b.t.w. The Tennis-stadion in Paris, where the French open is held, is also called after Roland Garros.
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Some technical details about this
Bugatti 16 of 1912:
The engine has 4 cylindres and 5017 ccm
100HP and a top-speed of 160 km/h
... which would be completely impossible
for our safety-standards today,
without seatbelts in seats like in this car...
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This great racing-car was one of the legendary cars of Ferrari.
R.Fischer won the grand prix of Angouleme with the car, that is shown in the museum.
Cars like this one made Ferrari a well known racing-car, a long time before M.Schuhmacher...
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Some technical details about this
FERRARI F2 212 of 1950
The engine had 12 cylindres and only 2562 ccm
200HP and a top-speed of 230 km/h
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This is in fact a unique car, built by 2 brothers in Switzerland.
The engine of this car has 12,7 litres and is the biggest engine of the museum in Mulhouse.
Also the top-speed of 140 km/h is almost incredible for á car in 1904.
Nevertheless, after constructing this car, the brothers changed into the banking-business...
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The technical details of this
DUFAUX 100/120PS of 1904 :
the engine had 8 cylindres and 12761 ccm
90 HP and a top-speed of 140 km/h
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