Bugatti Type 37 Grand Prix 1929, França

  Bugatti Type 37 Grand Prix 1929, França Fotografia A more attainable version of the legendary Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix, the Type 37 of 1926 shared its bigger brother’s chassis and beautiful bodywork. Trading a straight-eight engine for a new single overhead camshaft inline four-cylinder motor, it delivered 60 horsepower via a four-speed manual […]

Bugatti Type 44 Cabriolet by Lavocat et Marsaud 1929, França

  Bugatti Type 44 Cabriolet by Lavocat et Marsaud 1929, FrançaFotografia Ettore Bugatti, or “Le Patron” as he was known in the workplace, always offered “street” versions of his automobiles, but they were road cars for racing drivers. That changed at the 1927 Paris Motor Show, where Bugatti unveiled the Type 44. This model featured […]

Bugatti Type 57C Atalante by Gangloff 1939, França

  Bugatti Type 57C Atalante by Gangloff 1939, FrançaFotografia Bugatti’s ultimate pre-war roadgoing model, the Type 57 was the successor to the swift and comfortable Type 49, but it shared little except for the bore and stroke of its inline eight-cylinder engine. The design was steadily revised between 1934 and the end of production in […]

Bugatti Type 57 Stelvio 1934, França

  Bugatti Type 57 Stelvio 1934, FrançaFotografia According to the report on file by Pierre-Yves Laugier, Bugatti chassis number 57190 was ordered on 5 March 1934 by the Bugatti agent J.B. Arnaud for his client, a dentist named Raymond Peretti of Poitiers, France. Unfortunately, the mass of orders for the new Type 57 pushed the […]

Bugatti Type 57 Cabriolet by Letourneur et Marchand 1938, França

  Bugatti Type 57 Cabriolet by Letourneur et Marchand 1938, FrançaFotografia As the recipient of fastidious care during 66 years of single-family ownership, and notably retaining its numbers-matching engine and coachwork, this exquisite expression of Jean Bugatti’s celebrated Type 57 is a particularly desirable example.According to the combined information of the American Bugatti Club Register […]

Bugatti Type 13 Brescia Sports 1922, França

  Bugatti Type 13 Brescia Sports 1922, FrançaFotografia “It must have been Bugatti’s liberality of conception and eye for proportion (developed by observation without the ‘benefit’ of calculation!) which enabled so well-balanced and in fact well-engineered a design.” – Hugh Conway on the Bugatti Type 13/15/17.By the early 1930s, Ettore Bugatti – ‘Le Patron’ – […]