creating a Bucciali

Almost as remarkable as the Bucciali itself is the strange fact that while William Tishman was building his passion in a shop in California, 5,550 miles away in Holland, almost at exactly the same time, an artist, not an industrialist, was also creating an automobile inspired by the Bucciali. His name was Bart de Vries.
“I was not aware of the Tishman Bucciali when I built my car,” says de Vries. He finished his in 1985, Tishman in 1983. Both were inspired by the Saouctchik convertible, and both were based on a GM frame. The two never met. Tishman stayed in California, de Vries in Holland. Even more remarkable, de Vries created his dream car, fabricating almost every item in his garage by himself. But read on…

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