Tennessee couple with matching Chiron Super Sports found out just what goes into a personalized Bugatti

Two lucky US owners of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport decided to pimp their supercar pair with a custom paint job.

Little did they know that this customization would take far longer than they’d anticipated.

Hailing from Tennessee in America, the married couple bought ‘his-and-hers’ supercars.

When they decided to switch up his paintwork to match hers albeit in a different shade, they found out that changing a bespoke Bugatti Chiron Super Sport takes longer than you’d think.

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Repainting the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport

Turns out that modifying the husband’s German-French hypercars by repainting it to match his wife’s alongside other custom touches would take seven months.

His spouse had opted for a personalized shade and he wanted to upgrade.

However, this new livery takes longer than you might expect.

That’s because every single Bugatti is unique.

Any changes to these individual designs require a lot of accuracy and even more time – as well as being transported from the US across the Atlantic back to the factory in France.

The Molsheim-based company has a dedicated Bugatti ‘Sur Mesure’ (‘To Measure’) team for designing and crafting every single detail the customer asks for with sub-millimeter accuracy.

First, the body panels are taped before individual layers of paint are applied by hand.

The process is repeated until the result is flawless by a dedicated master painter.

He worked exclusively on the customization for four weeks.

Once the coloring stage is cleared, a clear coating is applied until the paintwork.

This makes the shade brighter and more vibrant.

This energy is reflected in shade names such as the red-orange shade of her car: ‘L’Aura’ (‘The Aura’).

The new ‘Coup de Foudre’ (meaning ‘Stroke of Lightning,’ or ‘Love at First Sight’) shade he opted for was complimented with handcrafted door panels and two-tone wheels in ‘French Racing’ blue.

Additional touches

The seven-month project also required replacing several original body panels.

He had opted for visible-carbon-fiber ones.

In addition, the ‘old’ hood, roof, engine lid, and rear wing (which were as near as you can get to brand new), were thrown away, and new ones were fitted.

To install the Sky View roof he wanted, the cockpit cover was detached from the monocoque entirely.

The interior also had to be stripped to prevent dust from tainting it.

The panels were finally realigned with such precision that the exposed carbon fibers would fall perfectly in place as a continuous flow.

Rather than looking like a modification, post-personalization it looked like a brand new car.

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