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Eric Stewart during the ‘ten out of ten’ tour by 10CC
In the year he bought the car, 1979 he experienced a severe car crash- with another
car- which did not keep him from ordering a complete nuts-and-bolts, frame-up
restoration in 1980 at Bassett Down Ltd, Swindon,
Wiltshire, UK, by Nigel Arnold Foster. The car stayed
there for 18 months, from June 1980 to December
1981, and in total more than 2100 professional hours
were spent. However care was taken to keep
everything original as is evidenced by the bills that
specify in great detail the work that had been done.
Everything was restored except the engine. After the restoration he never drove the
Bugatti 44, as he was able to buy a supercharged 35C, which was much faster. With the
latter car he regularly participated in various antique car races.
Fuad and Julian Majzub (1982-1999)
Fuad Majzub, a very wealthy refugee from Persia (now Iran), added Bugatti 44266 to
his British stock in 1982 for £ 20.000.- from Eric Stuart. He used the plate 441 BGP-
probably from one of his numerous other cars, and it was still blue. However on the day
he bought the car and drove it home, the engine seized as a result of a big-end failure,
so that he was forced to have it revised. This was done at Brineton Engineering, which
spent 230 professional hours for a complete engine revision. However the engine
(upper and lower crankcase, cylinder blocks and so on) was kept in its original
condition. Afterwards he probably never drove it anymore. After his decease on 28 Jan
Advertisement of Nigel Arnold Foster of Basset Down Ltd in Classic
and Thoroughbred Cars 1979