This car competed in the Williams Trophy Race for Pre-1934 Grand Prix Cars and the Vintage Seaman Trophy Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.
It's the 1925 Bugatti T39 of David Hands which has a 1,493cc 8-cylinder inline engine. The Type 39 was based on the 2 litre Type 35 with a smaller engine to comply with the latest Grand Prix regulations. David Hands' car is chassis 4604 and one of the five works T39s that only raced in two major events before they were sold by the factory, and this is one of two that went to Australia. The car raced successfully there until the late 1930s and was eventually acquired by David Hands in 2005, being shipped to the UK to be restored by Tula Engineering.
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