Bugatti Type 57

This was one of the cars entered in the Cheshire Life's Concours d'Elegance at the VSCC's race meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

According to the programme of the event it's Roland Duce's 1938 Bugatti Type 57C with an 8 cylinder 3,300cc engine.

It's apparently, though, a reconstruction of a Bugatti Type 57 Gangloff Coupé, based on a Bugatti Type 101 chassis with the engine from a Bugatti Type 57 Atalante.

An Old Classic Car forum dated February 2014 says this about Roland Duce's car:

"Roland's 'type 57' exotic bodywork was designed by Gangloff in the early 1930's; however nobody was brave or rich enough to place an order. More recently the owner of a type 57 chassis took the plunge and got one built. Believe it or not the original designer now in his 90's came over to England to supervise the build."

As usual with the VSCC's Concours d'Elegance competitions the cars paraded round the circuit during the meeting's lunch break.