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In the summer of 1986, at the final sale of the Bill Harrah automobile collection, Houston real estate developer Jerry Moore bought the Bugatti Royale Berline de Voyage, a yellow and black monstrosity of motoring excess, one of just six Royales made, the “car of kings” that no king ever owned.

Everything about the Berline de Voyage was excessive: It weighed over 7,000

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