Donald E. Toms

The Bugattis of Jean DeDobbeleer and Bugatti Memories can be ordered for only $85 via Donald E. Toms (inset).

By Pete Vack

Sometime last year I determined that we needed to add more books on Bugatti to our library, and went looking for a book called Bugatti Memories by Gene Cesari, a reference I found in the latest ABC Register. It entailed a search on the Internet, and that was how I eventually stumbled onto one Donald E. Toms, in Florida, who handled the Cesari book. An email address was listed as don@bugattibooks.com and soon we were in touch.

Now, don’t figure that since his email is attached to bugattibooks.com, that there really is a bugattibooks.com website. There isn’t. Don does not have a site. And yet Don believes he “…can furnish a greater variety of Bugatti titles than any other bookseller in the world.” Except maybe Amazon.

Take that, Jeff Bezos! [Read more…] about Donald E. Toms, Bugatti Bookseller

Review by Pete Vack

La Passione 6C2300-6C2500 Alfa Romeo 1934-1953
Hardbound, 357 pages, 550 color photos 11 x 9.5 inches
Author: H.-J.Döhren
English and German
ISBN 978-3-00-063184-9
Alfa Point 2019

From Europe, order here:https://www.millenove.de/buecher-bestellen
From U.S. order from don@bugattibooks.com at 941-727-8667

Oh, those big ugly monsters we used to hate. We were never quite sure of what they were, this or that, somewhere between the superlative 8Cs and the diminutive Giuliettas and yet not quite 1900s. And in fact the 6C2300/2500 cars which are the focus of H.-J. Döhren’s latest book, were not made for young middle class post war car enthusiasts, but as one of the most expensive cars on the market, they were boulevardiers designed for the classiest and richest of clients who could appreciate the coachwork, revel in the size and luxury, and own the latest in automotive technology from DOHC engines to full four wheel independent suspension. No fools they. [Read more…] about La Passione 6C2300-6C2500 Alfa Romeo