On July 12, 2009, thousands of onlookers witnessed as a 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia Roadster was plucked from Lake Maggiore on the border of Italy and Switzerland. The car had been submerged for three-quarters of a century and when it sold at Bonhams’ Retromobile auction in Paris in January of 2010, the collector car world celebrated.
Fast forward to January 29, 2017; on this day collector Alex Vazeos of Athens, Greece, contacted me to discuss his most recent adventure. By any measure Vazeos has an extraordinary collection of small-displacement sports and racing cars. He is passionate about the hobby and is always on the hunt for something old and exciting. It seems that Vazeos now had his own story of “the car in the lake” and “hidden treasure” barely begins to describe his find, a 1950s Convair Mk I.
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