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VeloceToday for April 8 2014

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Our SIX Features This Week

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Alfa 1600 Sprint and Spider Instruction Book. Public no. 838-12/1963 (1500) R. Original, excellent to mint condition; spine is not broken, appears as new. Slight fraying on edge of Electrical diagram where it protrudes from the edge of the book. 80 pages, printed for US market cars. SS instruction book sold for $400; looking for best offer over $500 by April 11. Click photo to see larger image. 1600 Giulia TI instruction book also available, good condition. Contact:vack@cox.net

Lancia Aurelia B 20 GT. Third Series, 1953 Engine: B20 3201 Chassis : B20 2923 Imported to Uruguay in the 1950s and used in a few races, reportedly driven by Juan Carlos Gutiérrez and dismantled. It was completely restored beginning in the mid-eighties and finished three years ago. Click photo for more details. Contact:julioberges@gmail.com

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Fiat 1100 S Mille Miglia model. Produced by an Italian firm, INCAP in 1948. The model is 14 cm in length. It is very rare, never seen before and is in like-new condition and comes with the original box. Click on the small photo to see the car and box. Contact info@du-commerce.nl

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26th Techno Classica at Essen with Hugues Vanhoolandt

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Mercedes-Benz celebrated their 120 years of Motorsport with a spectacular display of open-wheel race cars, from the early French Grand Prix winning car of 1914 to the recent Mercedes-powered Formula One McLarens.

Story and Photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
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The Techno Classica show in Essen, Germany is perhaps the biggest world fair for classic cars. That is the reason why the German automobile manufacturers are represented with large historic booths, like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche and BMW. [Read more…] about 26th Techno Classica at Essen with Hugues Vanhoolandt

Australia’s Phillip Island Classic 2014

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Jason Nichols 1926 Bugatti Type 37 in turn 4.

Story and Photos by Vince Johnson
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The Victorian Historic Racing Register has been presenting Australia’s Phillip Island Classic since 1990 and it was fitting that the event’s 25th anniversary celebrated the achievements of the group’s patron, Australia’s 3-time F1 World Champion, Sir Jack Brabham. [Read more…] about Australia’s Phillip Island Classic 2014

25th Great Australian Bugatti Rally

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T44 of Patrick Friedli on the streets followed by Preston in King's ex-Kidston Bugatti.

Story and Photos by Chris Martin
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Click here to see photos of many of the entrants in separate story

The Bugatti Club Australia hosted its 25th Great Australian Bugatti Rally in conjunction with a two week International Tour for overseas visitors.
The International Tour started from the Crown Plaza Hotel at Coogee in Sydney on Sunday March 23rd and ran for two weeks, ending with a Gala Dinner at the Marriott Resort in Surfers Paradise on Sunday 6th April. [Read more…] about 25th Great Australian Bugatti Rally

Bugattis at the 72nd Members Meeting, Goodwood

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Bugatti Tank, T57 G.

Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp
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Read more about the Goodwood 72nd Members Meeting

One of the most spectacular sights of the 72nd Members Meeting was the grid for the Grover Williams Trophy, a race to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the introduction of the Type 35 Bugatti at the French Grand Prix of 1924. Twenty five various T35s and derivatives had been entered. My favorites being the two Type 59s, Tom Dark’s Type 59/50 and the amazing Type 57G “The Tank” a factory team car which had competed in the Le Mans 24 hour race of 1939 – One of two such team cars entered for that race. Below is a sample of some of the Bugattis tha competed for the Williams Trophy.

[Read more…] about Bugattis at the 72nd Members Meeting, Goodwood

72nd Members Meeting at Goodwood

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Entered into the Salvadori cup for sports racing cars of a type which raced between 1955 and 1960, the 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC of David Cottingham (DK Engineering) at speed. To celebrate the spring equinox the Goodwood team planted 300 thousand daffodil bulbs hence the splash of color.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
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Read about the Bugattis at Members Meeting

To the uninitiated it must have seemed strange to call a new race meeting the 72nd Members meeting, held on March 29-30 2014.

This was not technically a new event, but a revival of older and very well established event. Years ago, the members meetings at Goodwood were run for members of the British Automobile Racing club. The first Members Meeting took place on the 18th September 1948. The 71st Members meeting (they were more than annual) was the final race meeting held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 2nd July 1966, just before the circuit’s closure. These meetings attracted many a future top driver as well as the more down to earth club racers and were as popular for the members for the social side as to the racing itself. [Read more…] about 72nd Members Meeting at Goodwood

VeloceToday for Tuesday, April 1 2014

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Cuban Grand Prix, 1957
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Our Features This Week


Respect and Responsibility: Restoring the Itier Bugatti

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Alan Söderström, seen standing by his Bugatti roadster in 1965, didn't know it, but under this unusual body was a Grand Prix car. Current owner Henrik Schou-Nielsen recounts the story for VeloceToday.

By Henrik Schou-Nielsen (and staff)

Danish architect Henrik Schou-Nielsen tells us the fascinating story of a famous racing Bugatti that seemed to have disappeared over the years, only to be found at long last hiding under a striking art deco styled roadster. The discovery resulted in a 10 year project that skilfully preserved two very different Bugattis, one of which turned out to be the Grand Prix Bugatti raced by Anne-Cécile Itier in the 1930s. We’ll let Schou-Nielsen take it from here.

Itier in her T51A Bugatti at the Nurburgring in 1934.

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Louis Bionier, French Designer, Part 2

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‘Like in an airplane.. the Dyna will make you free from the harshness of the ground and its resonances’ is a free translation of the text in this Panhard publicity folder.

By Gijsbert-Paul Berk

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In Part 1 of his look at Panhard’s remarkable Louis Bionier, Gijsbert-Paul Berk described how Bionier designed the Panoramic and Dynamic Panhards in the 1930s. In Part 2, we learn how the post-war Dyna X was developed.

Was the Panhard Dyna an automotive cuckoo’s egg?

There are some mysteries concerning the origin of the postwar Panhard Dyna.Was it designed by Jean-Albert Grégoire (as some French experts claim on Wikipedia) or by the duo Louis Delagarde, Louis Bionier at Panhard & Levassor? The story of the gestation of this interesting car was extensively described in the review by Peter Vack of the book ‘Panhard, the flat twin cars 1945-1967’ by David Beare on VeloceToday of 8 August 2013 but if you want to refresh your memory we must take you back to the prewar years. [Read more…] about Louis Bionier, French Designer, Part 2

Alfa Sprint Speciale Reconsidered

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Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale 1600. Yes, and well, no. Photo by Pete Vack.

By Pete Vack

To some eyes, the Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale (1957-1966) was a great looking piece of automotive art. Yet, so radical, so sweeping was the scope of the design, to this day there may not be a consensus. Is it a work of rolling art or is it a bloated caricature of a space age nightmare? What was the original intent? Did the SS live up to expectations?

The best laid plans… [Read more…] about Alfa Sprint Speciale Reconsidered

Arutunoff and the Appia Zagato Part 2

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At the Monterey Historics with the second Appia Zagato.

By Toly Arutunoff

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I have previously related the tale of my first Appia Zagato. You’re gonna think I’m mildly nuts but just as George Starch can’t remember what he did with his Zagato, I can’t remember what happened to mine! I’ve seen it advertised a few years ago in Hemmings as ‘Toly Arutunoff’s car’ but I never checked on it. [Read more…] about Arutunoff and the Appia Zagato Part 2

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