rose from humble beginnings in Southern California to found a financial empire that allowed him to pursue his artistic enthusiasms, particularly with French cars. Mullin started out in college at the UC Santa Barbara as an art major but came to a realization early on that made him change his major to economics.“A friend and I were working for an artist, a man of considerable talent, but there came a point where he couldn’t afford to pay us,” Mullin once told Autoweek.
The Mullin entry at Pebble this year won its class and got all the way to the final four, a 1939 Delahaye Type 165 Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet.He amassed one of the finest collections of Bugattis, Delahayes, and Delages the world may ever know. You can see them at the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., where he houses many of them.
While Mullin owned many beautiful French cars, the 2011 entry didn’t fit the script for Pebble Beach winners. Most of those were black, with long hoods, flowing fenders and short cockpits way in the back. The Voisin was none of that, instead, its beauty was as much in its detail as in the large, rounded profile.The car sported interior fabric that Mullin said was the original pattern, and in fact he found the original machine that made it and had a new set made for the C-25.
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