I was asked to be part of a very select team to prep this car for our company booth at SEMA. It's a one of a kind Vanvooren bodied 1939 Bugatti Type 57C that was a gift from the French Government to the Prince of Persia (later Shah of Iran) for his wedding. The car is owned by the Petersen museum and is valued at $15-$20,000,000US. It was quite an honor to detail this beauty, but very upsetting to see the level of damage that we were faced with initially. We did the work in the Vault of the Petersen museum so we were surrounded by some pretty amazing cars - including Steve McQueen's Jaguar XKSS!





Hard at work!


The crew - that's yours truly center.


This is how the car looked in our booth at SEMA just a few days later.



Certainly one of the most beautiful cars I've ever had the pleasure to work on, and by a huge margin the most valuable!!