Bugatti, based in Molsheim, France, is known today for making some of the fastest and most expensive cars in the world. It wasn't much different in 1925. This car would have cost around 70,000 Francs when it was brand new, an enormous sum for an automobile at that time. It's no surprise, then, that this car's first owner, Standard Oil heir Wallis Clinton Bird, who bought the car while he was honeymooning in Paris, was outrageously rich. This 95 horsepower Bugatti racer became part of a stable of world-class cars he kept garaged at his Long Island estate.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the original price of this car.