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This is absolutely the most awesome carmuseum we have been in! In fact it was so great, that we didn´t go to any other carmuseum on our three weeks road-trip around Europe, because we thought we couldn´t look at those same way, as if we would have gone there before seeing this.
I wont say, that we wont go to any carmuseum again, but just at this trip it felt like we can´t do that ;)
If you do like old cars at all, you just have to go here, it is so great!
I don´t care those new ones so much, but everything made before 1970´s is usually nicer in my eyes ;) Of course I can look new cars, if I can afford to buy them, but old ones are more interesting to watch!
Written Sep 5, 2010
Address: 15 rue de l’épée
Phone: + 33 (0) 389 332 323
Website: http://www.collection-schlumpf.com/en/schlumpf/
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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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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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Written Oct 16, 2004
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This type of car was a very good success for Bugatti, although it was quite unconfortable and also quite expensive.
This car was styled a bit in the way of american cars of that time.
The car that is shown here, once belonged to King Leopold of Belgium.
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BUGATTI 43 Torpedo Gand Sport of 1929 :
the engine had 8 cylindres and 2261 ccm
125 HP and a top-speed of 180 km/h
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Written Oct 16, 2004
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Jean Bugatti ( the son of Ettore Bugatti ) drove this Bugatti 55 Coupé in 3 hours and 47 minutes from Molsheim in Alsace to Paris .
This means an average speed of 120 km/h - a quite impressive speed for the time beeing, and I may guess even more for today, except when you drive on the highway / Autobahn that did of course not exist yet in France of 1932.
But Jean Bugatti was a daring driver and he also died young in a car-accident...
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BUGATTI 55 Coupé of 1932 :
the engine has 8 cylindres and 2261 ccm
160 HP and a top-speed of 180 km/h
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Written Oct 16, 2004
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This lovely car has an interesting history :
This Delahaye left France in 1951 for a honeymoon-trip to the USA. The lady stayed with the car in the USA and gave this car as a donation to the museum in 1986.
...and she used the ticket for the shipping of the car, that she had bought already in 1951, but did not use, as she had stayed in the USA after the honeymoon.
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DELAHAYE 135M of 1949 :
the engine has 6 cylindres and 3557 ccm
115 HP and a top-speed of 160 km/h
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Updated Oct 16, 2004
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The Bugatti 44 Coupe was a quite popular car, as the size was not very big from outside, and the car was easy to drive and park everywhere - a problem that existed obviously already in the 1920s...
On the other hand it had a lot of space INside the car.
Isn't it funny to see the different colors of that car - looks a bit like a driving hatbox...
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BUGATTI 44 Coupé of 1927
the engine had 8 cylindres and 2992 ccm
80 HP and a top-speed of 140 km/h
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Updated Oct 16, 2004
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This type of Mercedes was mainly famous for its elegant design.
All cars in the museum of Mulhouse look like they are brand new, and almost all of them are still fully able to drive the speed that is indicated , simply because Fritz Schlumpf employed plenty of mechanics just in order to restore all cars completely.
And they were NOT allowed to talk about what they were doing behind the closed doors, before the museum should be opened.
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MERCEDES-BENZ 540K of 1936
the engine had 8 cylindres and 5401 ccm
180HP and a top-speed of 170km/h
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Updated Oct 16, 2004
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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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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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Updated Oct 16, 2004
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What an elegant sportscar !
On the big photo in the back : Jean Bugatti - the son of Ettore Bugatti - a well known driver in car-races and a brilliant engeneer and stylist.
He died young,when testing one of his cars : he had an accident, when he tried to avoid a collition with a biker.
The death of Jean Bugatti somehow was the beginning of the end of the success and production of the Bugatti-cars.
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BUGATTI 55 Roadstar of 1935
the engine had 8 cylindres and 2261ccm
160HP and a top-speed of 180km/h
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This great Bugatti is a "Galibier" - a type of car with NO central pillar between the doors, so you may easily enter the car for the front- and the back-seats at the smae time.
And it had the spare-wheel built into the left mudguard.
Have a look for the elegant head-lights, beeing built into the front part of the car instead of having seperate lights like normally used by cars of that time.
In things like that Bugatti was always ahead of time.
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BUGATTI 57C of 1939:
the engine had 8 cylindres and 3257ccm
160HP and a top-speed of 180km/h
I simply wonder, where - except in races - were you able to perform such a speed on an ordinary road of these times ??
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Updated Oct 16, 2004
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