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The car was sold several times after it left Curzon’s hands, and eventually purchased by Carr in 1955.
The doctor had a brilliant mechanical mind, and his nephew fondly remembers him fussing over the machinery of his beloved automobiles saying, “…when he tinkered with his cars… he wore a piece of rubber tube round his head to stop the oil [from] getting in his hair.”
The Bugatti disappeared into Carr’s garage in 1960, when its license expired.
It was essentially out of sight and out of mind for the next 50 years, as Carr grew still more eccentric with age and developed strong hoarding tendencies.
When it was found in 2009, the Bugatti was in the garage, alongside a classic Aston Martin, and papered with decades of notes from covetous collectors offering to buy the vehicle from Carr for astronomical sums of money.
