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Meditation on a sports car - the Bugatti 43 in a (historical) driving report

Name: Bugatti Typ 43 Roadster Grand Sport 1932
Brand: Bugatti

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Created on June 4, 1947

Text:

"Tester"

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

Bruno von Rotz

Bonhams

Rastrelli

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Daniel Reinhard

Bruno von Rotz

Bonhams

Rastrelli

Archiv

Bugatti 43 (1929) - photographed on the occasion of the "Escapade Amilcar Grison 2017" meeting

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Bugatti Type 43 (1932) - A. Hörniny from Bern at the Klausen Race 1934

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Bugatti Type 43 A (1930) - "le roadster grand sport" - the touring version of the Type 35 racing car

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Bugatti Type 43 (1929) - photographed in the eighties

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Bugatti 43 (1929) - with eight-cylinder engine and Gangloff bodywork, not yet fully restored, but a highlight of the SCR's Gangloff special show - at the OTM Fribourg 2013

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Bugatti 43 Grand Sport (1927) - at the Klausenrennen 2013 in the regularity classification

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Bugatti Type 43 Grand Sport (1929) - Class "G1 - Sportives - Avant 1930" - Concours d'Elégance Suisse Coppet 2017

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Bugatti Type 43 Grand Sport (1929) - as lot 120 at the Bonhams Paris Porte de Versailles Auction 2008

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Bugatti T 43 Gran Sport (1927) - at the Mille Miglia 2016

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Bugatti 43 (1932) - at the Vintage Revival Zandvoort on September 27/28, 2014

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Bugatti Type 43 Grand Sport (1928) - at the 1000 Mile Trial 2015

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Summary

Shortly after the war, the Automobil Revue already dealt with a pre-war sports car, the Bugatti 43. The former racing car of the Swiss driver C. Godeffroy, which finished sixth at Klausen in 1932, was tested on normal roads and compared with its contemporary competitors. This report reproduces the original wording of the 1947 article, illustrated with pictures of various Type 43s and an original sales brochure, and thus provides an insight into the Bugatti phenomenon.

This article contains the following chapters

Racing cars for the road
Quality construction
With compressor
Longer for the road
Not yet an old hand at 15 years of age
Outstanding driving performance

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

After some descriptions of pre-war sports cars in the "AR" have met with extraordinary interest, here is a closer look at an older car that enriched the "stable" of the "Automobil-Revue" on loan for a short time. It is a Bugatti sports car belonging to Caesar Godeffroy, which played a role in Swiss motor racing many years ago (1932 to 1935 to be precise). The fame that surrounded Ettore Bugatti's masterpieces ten or twenty years ago is slowly fading. The younger generation of sports enthusiasts only hears about the victories of Bugatti cars from stories, which have perhaps been damaged by the ravages of time. Even if Bugatti, which is now active in Paris, holds out the prospect of a return to the arena in the near future, we will have to make do with memories in the meantime.

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