Sunday, November 4, 2007

Stamp of the Day: Monaco Racing car

This is really for PP, since I don't think I know enough about cars, Bugattis, or car racing. Fill us up with knowledge in the comments, please!

Posted by LS at 9:37 PM

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4 comments:

O.K. said...

It looks like a Bugatti T35, the same model that swedish royal prince Bertil (known as the motor prince) raced in the 1930's under the false name "Monsieur Adrian". They were a little cheaper back then...

The shape of the swedish candy Ahlgrens bilar (Ahlgren's cars) is based on a Bugatti.

When the Bugatti "Royale" didn't sell, the surplus of it's twelve liter engines were used for trains instead.

November 4, 2007 at 11:30 PM
EH said...

I don´t know anything about the Bugatti, but I like it!

November 5, 2007 at 7:50 AM
LS said...

Once I read a romance novel, one of those thick ones from the 80s, Danielle Steel or something, and in it the woman gets so mad at her father that she goes into his garage with five extremely rare and well-preserved Bugatti's and uses a crowbar to destroy all of them. I think I remember that her father never talked to her after that... that is all I know about Bugatti's. Oh, there is one in Hopewell too, at the Lotus dealer, that we saw this weekend driving by.

November 5, 2007 at 8:17 PM
PP said...

Funny you posted this....this car(and other "tipos" very similar) is perhaps my most favorite car ever.
In fact just recently I told this to a good friend and fellow car nut. I first saw one at the Henry Ford Museum when I was just a kid and ever since I have loved it. These cars sell today for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have an old issue of Road & Track magazine form the mid 1950's that has an article where the author is complaining that the prices have gotten so high for the cars that you can't even get one for under 2 or 3 thousand dollars anymore!

November 6, 2007 at 8:04 AM

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