1926 Bugatti Type 40

This car was in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's a 1926 Bugatti Type 40, about 830 of which were produced between 1926 and 1930, and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc engine.

Bugattis

There were four Bugattis entered in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1991 and two of them are pictured below in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

This is Mike and Hugh Dickson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 40, chassis number 40652, and the programme of the event said this about it:

123   1929 Bugatti Type 40

          Reg: UF 4524    4 cylinder    1496cc

          (Hugh Dickson, London W14)

Jointly owned by Mike and Hugh Dickson,

it was first entered on the Run in 1987.

This is the cockpit of Barry Parkinson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 37, and the only other information about the car in the programme is that its registration number is DS 6894.

On 29 October 2015 I showed a photograph of this car at the 1986 Run.

Bugatti

I've shown photographs of Bugattis a couple of times previously and this one is a 1928 Type 40 seen at the HSCC Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

The car didn't compete in any of the races, it was just parked in the paddock during the meeting.