I photographed this car in the paddock at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.
It's Hubert Fabri's 1928 2 litre Straight-8 supercharged Bugatti T35C, chassis #4871. I always have trouble remembering the difference between the different types of pre-war Bugattis and I came across this list on an 8w.forix.com site that is a great help:
The T35C was a supercharged 2-litre model
equipped with a Roots compressor to give some 125 bhp. Here is a list of the
various Bugatti variants:
The original 1924 model: Type
35: 60*88 mm = 1991cc
The 1925-'26 model: Type 35: 52*88 mm = 1495cc
The voiturette model: Type
35: 51.3*66 mm = 1091cc
The detuned production model, the
"Tecla": Type 35A: 60*88 mm = 1991cc
The long stroke 2.3 litre 'Targa Florio'
model: Type 35T: 60*100 mm = 2262cc
The supercharged variant of the 35T
model: Type
35B: 60*100 mm = 2262cc supercharged
The 2-litre supercharged model: Type 35C: 60*88 mm = 1991cc supercharged
The 4-cylinder engine model: Type 37: 69*100 mm = 1496cc 4 cylinder
The supercharged variant of 4-cylinder T37: Type 37A: 69*100 mm = 1496cc supercharged
The short-stroke model: Type 39: 60*66 mm = 1493cc
The supercharged variant of T39: Type
39A: 60*66 mm = 1493cc supercharged
The d.o.c. 2 valves/cyl model: Type 51: 60*88 mm = 1991cc supercharged
The long-stroke variant of the d.o.c. T51: Type 51-1: 60*100 mm = 2262cc supercharged
The short-stroke variant of the d.o.c. T51:
Type 51A: 60*66 mm = 1493cc supercharged
(All with 8-cylinder engines unless noted
otherwise)
On 8 June 2017 I showed a photograph of this car at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in 2004.
