1930-Bugatti-Type 35B

Description

This car was one of three factory entries in the 1930 Grand Prix de Monaco. It subsequently passed through the hands of several German owners who campained it extensively across Europe. Today, the car survives with its original engine, gearbox, supercharger, differential, and brakes, and has been restored to the configuration in which it competed at Monaco in 1930. The components are stamped as follows: -Left rear lower crankcase arm-top surface; 200t -Right front lower crankcase arm top edge; 4948 *** -Front cambox[lower edge]; 200 -Upper crankcase[under oil filter bracket] G54 [also stamped on main bearing saddles] -Lower flange blower drive gearcase; 200 -Female drive flange[inside blower gearcase]; 200 -Blower uppers surface; 267 [large #;s] 24/3/30 [small #?s] -Inside mounting flanges/intake manifolds/matched pair? 55 -Steering box;7 -Gearbox; 472 -Front axle; 200 -Rear axle[cast differential housing]; 324 ?ratio;15X34 -Radiator [fabricated by G.MOREAU]; 570011 -Right dumbiron;4948*** -Cam cover top/right edge; 4948*** -?Chassis plate? riveted to footwell cover plate;4948 [reproduction] ***believed to have been stamped by/for German registration purposes Early history is as follows: 1) Factory car ? Registered to Ettore Bugatti Automobiles Molsheim as 7625 NV on 28 March 1930 ? Driven by Guy Bouriat to third place in the 1930 Grand Prix de Monaco on 6 April 1930 behind 4949 and 4950 Subsequent German Competition History: 2) Heinrich Joachim von Morgen ? Collected at the factory in the Spring of 1930 after a factory conversion from T35C to T35B form ? Between 11 May 1930 and 28 September 1930, von Morgen drove the car in twelve events ? Between 29 March 1931 and 27 September 1931, von Morgen drove the car in seven more events ? Traded on T51 at Molsheim at the end of 1931 3) Paul Pietsch ? Acquired from Molsheim at the end of 1931 ? Between 29 May 1932 and 18 September 1932, Pietsch drove the car in 12 events, later selling it to purchase an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300. 4) Herbert Wimmer ?Campaigned sporadically in Sweden and Germany during 1933, including an event at which he placed second behind Paul Pietsch in his recently acquired Alfa Romeo.