The 2009 Classic Motor Show, NEC, England, broke box office records when it welcomed around 48,000 visitors into its classic...
RM Auctions concluded its 2009 season on a high note in London, posting £10.9 million in total sales with a strong 87 percent of all lots sold at the third annual “Automobiles of London” event. Held in association with Sotheby’s, the single-day auction presented some 84 motor cars, consigned from...
Under cloudy skies, fortuitously slotted between rain showers, the second Lobethal Grand Carnival opened the historic 8.7-mile Adelaide Hills road...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
It is astonishing what you can learn about different countries if you follow motor racing. I have no real knowledge about tax except for those tear-stained begging letters I receive from the Inland Revenue, but I have picked up a few things. Cunningham, Scarab, and Chaparral were all major American...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
Gooding & Company announced that it sold a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic via private treaty sale, on behalf of...
To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Bugatti Club, one of the feature races at this year’s renewal of the recently renamed Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 12-15 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, will be The Bugatti Grand Prix. The last time the Historics hosted The Bugatti Grand...
On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Celsius, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world...
The American Bugatti Club announced the 2010 International Bugatti Rally along California’s beautiful Pacific Coast. Seventy-three Bugatti’s from all over...
Bugatti Type 35 Car: Bugatti Type 35 / Engine: Inline-8 / Maker: Bugatti / Bore X Stroke: 60 mm x 88 mm / Year: 1924 / Capacity: 1991 cc / 121.5 in / Class: Grand Prix / Power: 135 bhp at 5,300 rpm / Wheelbase: 94.5 in / Track: 47.2...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
A week after the Goodwood Revival, Buckinghamshire held its own Revival on the weekend of September 25-26 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Kop Hill Climb that, between 1910 and 1925, was one of the most prominent hillclimbs in the UK. When historic racer Barrie “Whizzo” Williams waved the...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
Bugatti 57G Tank Car: Bugatti 57G / Engine: Inline-8 / Maker: Bugatti / Bore X Stroke: 72 mm x 100 mm / Year: 1936 / Capacity: 3257 cc / Class: GP / Sports Car / Power: 149.1 kw / 200 bhp / Wheelbase: 2979 mm / Track: Front: 1349 mm...
By Will Silk Bugatti is one of the most famous marques in the history of automobile manufacture, and Classic Cars...
June 2011 The Art of Bugatti Richard Adatto, Christina Japp and Julius Kruta Published by the Mullin Automotive Museum with Coachbuilt Press, this book embodies the desire of founder Peter Mullin to celebrate not only the artistry of the automobile, but the art deco movement as well. To that end,...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Phillip Island GP Circuit, Victoria, Australia March 18–20, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Rodger Ward Louis Chiron 1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry (1934). 2 In the German “Silver Arrows” only American appearance, Bernd Rosemeyer drives an Auto Union to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in New York (1937). Become a Member...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
Report and photos by Dirk de Jager The International Bugatti Meeting touring event was held 5-11 June, 2011 in the...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed, as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car...
Bugatti Type 32 Car: Bugatti Type 32 / Engine: Inline-8 / Maker: Bugatti / Bore X Stroke: 60 mm x...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and won it three times: in 1928, 1929 and 1930, driving his own beloved Bentley cars. A record that still stands today, despite many attempts to break it over the last...