{"id":1376,"date":"2025-10-04T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/?post_type=showroom&#038;p=1376"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:50:12","slug":"bugatti-t59-57248-king-leopold","status":"publish","type":"showroom","link":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/showroom\/bugatti-t59-57248-king-leopold\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 59\/57G King L\u00e9opold n\u00b057248"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"gsbp-225663f alignfull\" data-type=\"section-component\">\n<div class=\"gsbp-577eeb2\" data-type=\"content-area-component\">\n<div class=\"gsbp-0081e14\">\n<p>The first Type 59 built (it kept its Type 57 numbering) and perhaps the most desirable...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her career in Grand Prix with the drivers Robert Benoist and Jean-Pierre Wimille then a second period in sports car racing, she was transformed for road use at the request of King Leopold III of Belgium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gsbp-59f12ce\">\n<p>The transformations touch the black paint with a yellow edge, the installation of headlights and mudguard cycles, a new wooden dashboard, a radiator caress and a nice remodeling of the stern to accommodate the spare wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this made it the most efficient road car and one of the most beautiful of its time!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"featured_media":1380,"template":"","class_list":["post-1376","showroom","type-showroom","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/showroom\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/showroom"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/showroom"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurent-pierson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}