HIGHLY DETAILED 3D MODEL of BUGATTI ROYALE WEINBERGER 1931 FOR POSER11 PRO AND GREATER.
BUGATTI ROYALE Cabriolet Victoria Ludwig Weinberger (Munich) 1931 Chassis #41-121
When German physician Joseph Fuchs took delivery of his Bugatti Royale in 1932, the car was painted black with yellow trim.
There’s favorite Bugattis in every area. Say you want style, art deco influences, you go Type 57SC Atlantic. You want race car: Type 35. But if you want ultimate grandeur you have to go for the Royale. This was a car calculated to push Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Hispano-Suizas and Delahaye aside. But the timing was off, and the car was a failure. The hope was to sell it to royalty but not one Royal was able to buy one.
The Royale was made to dwarf all other luxury cars by any standard of measure. The biggest car. The biggest engine. And the price, adjusted for inflation mind you, was around $700,000.
The wheelbase was 169 inches. And it weighed 7,500 lbs. It had its own wheel design called "Roue Royale" that were 24 inches. The mind blower was the engine size, though, at 12,763cc in a straight-8.
Due, as I say, to bad timing (The depression of the thirties killed the market) only six Royales were ever built and amazingly all six survive. Some are worth more than others, due to the designs by different coachbuilders. Some have been rebodied several times.
This Bugatti T41 Royale Weinberger cabriolet is known by its first owner, Dr. Josef Fuchs of Munich. Chassis # 41 121 was bought new in 1931 by Dr. Josef Fuchs for $41,000, but the Doctor hadn’t reckoned with the growth of the Nazi party and his family was forced to flee Germany. He first moved his family and the Royale to Italy, then picked an odd choice--Shanghai –
before finally making it to New York in 1937 with his family and the car. Before the war, he hadn’t used anti- freeze and the engine froze and the block cracked. Somehow avoiding the prewar scrap drives, he kept the car in his backyard under a tarp.
During the war there were scrap drive zealots aiming to find every old car possible so it could be melted down to make guns and tanks.
This car got close to oblivion, being taken to a junkyard in 1941 or 43 and a friend of GM engineer Charles Chayne called him up and tipped him off about #41121 being available. He bought it over the phone for $400 plus $12 tax.
He was a good candidate to buy it, being eventually named Vice President of Engineering at General Motors. He had access to engineers that could cast a new block, make anything you wanted (but a neww block for the Bugatti was never cast). After he restored the car over a four year period, he donated it to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, in 1959 where it's still on display. Unfortunately, many parts of the restored car, including the paint scheme, are different of the original one!
DIALS :
Select "BUGATTI ROYALE WEINBERGER"/Parameters/All or PARAMETERS/Other
ALL_WHEELS:ROTATION
STEERING:LEFT/RIGHT
LEFT_DOOR:CLOSE/OPEN
LEFT_DOOR_GLASS:UP/DOWN
RIGHT_DOOR:CLOSE/OPEN
RIGHT_DOOR_GLASS:UP/DOWN
WIPERS:LEFT/RIGHT
MODIFYING THE BLACK COLOR OF THE CAR:
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT MAINBODYPARTS then SELECT Surfaces/PAINT and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
MODIFYING THE YELLOW COLOR OF THE TRIM:
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT MAINBODYPARTS then SELECT Surfaces/PAINT1 and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
IN THE ORIGINAL MODEL, THE FOOTSTEP IS WHITE. YOU CAN GIVE THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE:
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT MAINBODY, then SELECT Surfaces/PAINT3 and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
MODIFYING THE COLOR OF THE LEATHER PARTS:
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT MAINBODY then SELECT Surfaces/LEATHER and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT LEFT_DOOR/doorleft then SELECT Surfaces/LEATHER and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
IN THE HIERARCHY SELECT RIGHT_DOOR/doorright then SELECT Surfaces/LEATHER and GIVE THE SHADER OF YOUR CHOICE.
2 soft tops are available in the MAINBODY hierarchy: SOFT_TOP_ON and SOFT_TOP_OFF. Hide the soft top you don't want.
A TEMPLATE IS GIVEN IN A SEPARATE FOLDER SO THAT YOU CAN GIVE YOUR OWN LICENSE USING A 2D SOFTWARE.
Software: Poser Pro 11, Poser 12, Poser 13
