1930 Bugatti Type 50 Roadster
Offered by Gooding & Company | Amelia Island, Florida | March 2025

The Bugatti Type 50 was the follow up to the Type 46. This car was originally bodied as a coupe after being sold new off of the 1930 Paris Auto Salon stand. The car moved to Denmark before the war and remained there until coming stateside in 1951.
Power is provided by a supercharged 5.0-liter inline-eight that makes 225 horsepower. The big difference between the Types 46 and 50 is that the 50 used a DOHC engine design and a smaller displacement. But power was hugely improved.
It was in the late 1980s that the car received its current roadster configuration (a prior roadster body had been fitted under original ownership in the 1930s). It’s unclear of the Type 50 was supercharged from the factory or not (or whether that denoted Type 50S spec). In any case, only 66 were built and just 25 survive. This one has an estimate of $500,000-$600,000. More info can be found here.