Mike Preston's 1926 Bugatti Type 35B photographed at the Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008. I always have difficulties in identifying the different Bugattis, particularly the Type 35 models, but this Wikipedia article tells you how they differ.
All the Type 35 models have the straight-8 engine and that of the 35B is of 2.3 litres capacity and is supercharged.
Here's the car during the Boulogne Trophy race just starting the run up Clay Hill after Knickerbrook Corner.
The car is apparently a replica, that is to say a replica 35B not a replica Bugatti, and a forum on www.bugattibuilder.com said this about the car in 2009:
'PRESTON, Michael S.P. A Cheltenham, UK, optician and computer software specialist who, at the latest count, owned three Bugattis who joined the UK BOC in June, 1995. The car he has used most latterly is an immaculate fully road equipped emerald blue type 35B (SV 4798). According to the BBR (p.65) the car is probably based on a type 37 (37165) which was imported from Argentina in the early nineties and was rebuilt to 35B specifications by Ivan Dutton Ltd in 1995/6. The car which was owned by George Minden for most of the nineties was issued with the no. BC 080 in April 1994. He has recently taken to running the car in stripped form in racing car events and achieved second place in the 2005 Williams Trophy race run at Cadwell Park behind Geraint Owen also driving a 35B. His most recent success was a Second Class award in the 2006 VSCC Pomeroy Trophy event.'
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