Saturday, February 04, 2006

Schlumpf National Car Museum

Can anyone guess what this car is? It is a Bugati Royale Limosine, and it is the most expensive car in the World.

Yep, I went to a car museum - thanks to the advice of Jeanine Schmitt (Lilly HR) and the Hagans.

The short story is that a major french industrialist (wool) collected a whole bunch of cars, and it was one big secret how many he had until he tried to close the local wool plant. In true french fashion, the workers stormed the plant and took it over - only to find (literally) hundreds of automobiles. And these were not you Ford Escorts . . .

It's hard to imagine, but we're talking fleets of Rolls Royce limosines from before WWII. He had a particular weakness for Italian Bugatti's. I decided to just take pictures of the Mercedes Benz's, and my previously full charged camera battery crapped out at the very end.

Because I took so many pictures, I decided to try Yahoo! Photo, so you can click here to see all the photos I took of the museum. It wasn't until I got to my sixth or seventh car, when I got smart and took a picture of the actual car description. So if you flip through in order, you should be able to see what each car was. But I warn you, this is an afternoon activity.