Frank Studstrup

Eight Cylinders for the Type 40 Bugatti

April 18, 2022 By pete

Type 40 Chassis No. 40432 in 1948 after the installation of 8-cylinder Bugatti engine, at Glen Ewin Hillclimb, South Australia. Photo: Bob King collection

By Frank Studstrup

In the summer of 1926 Ettore Bugatti presented his new type 40, which replaced the old ‘Brescia’ sports car. In the mid-1920s, with the type 35 racing car of 1924, Bugatti was setting new standards for his effective and refined automobile designs, both in regard of engines, chassis and bodywork.

The type 40 incorporated many of the unique design features presented in the Bugatti racing cars, but of course offered in a less expensive and more versatile package aimed at customers for both daily and sporty driving.

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Bugatti in Denmark Between the Wars

November 1, 2021 By pete

The joy of owning a Bugatti is seen in this shot of Erik Svend Sckerl and friends with a type 23 in 1939.

Review by Pete Vack
All photos from the book

Bugatti in Denmark: motorsport and luxury cars before 1940
By Frank Studstrup
Editocar, 2021 Denmark
ISBN 978-87-973354-1-3
226 pages, 170 illustrations, hardcover
Text in English
Euro 65.00, GBP 55.00 USD 75.00 (excluding packing, posting and tax)
Order here editocar@mail.dk (Europe)
Or don@bugattibooks.com (US)

When it comes to Bugatti, no country is immune from its charms. France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, Italy and far away United States fell like dominoes in the face of the overwhelming charisma that radiated from the products of Molsheim between the wars.

Even Denmark, that remarkable seafaring peninsula with 443 named islands and a history that dates to 12,000 years BC, began importing Bugattis as early as 1912. To be sure, as everywhere, there were not many Bugattis around; their influence far outweighed their numbers in any country. As a testament to their popularity, Bugattis in Denmark have been admired, written about, appeared in movies, been the victors of ice races and record runs on famous beaches, engaged thousands of youngsters at Tivoli, and have left an unfaded impression for over 110 years. [Read more…] about Bugatti in Denmark Between the Wars

Frank Studstrup: In his own words

November 1, 2021 By pete

The author of Bugatti in Denmark, driving his type 40 at Prescott in 2019.

By Frank Studstrup

I was born in 1950 and often came along to the family’s bus garage and workshop in the 1950-60s. I must have been kind of taken by the whole atmosphere of all the workshop machinery and maintenance work on the yellow buses. Recalling from my early childhood, some of the buses were Danish built ‘Triangel’, the oldest dating back to 1931 and in the early 1950s set aside to be broken up. [Read more…] about Frank Studstrup: In his own words