Real or kit car?

[carl_w]

Spotted parked outside a building society in Saffron Walden this afternoon:




Number plates don't appear to be the same front and rear! But there were no other plates on it. Interior was full of what looked like scrutineering stickers. Wheels look a bit contemporary though.

Edited by carl_w on Saturday 17th April 19:42

[AndrewW-G]

looks like a real type 35, give aways being amongst other bits, the cable operated brakes and the magneto poking through the dash

Edited by AndrewW-G on Saturday 17th April 19:55

[carl_w]

I believe real ones are £500k+

[odyssey2200]

ASK Mid lists it as a Bugatti Type 35B

Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 17th April 20:19

[interloper]

That is bloody lovely!

[Phil Dicky]

odyssey2200 said:

ASK Mid lists it as a Bugatti Type 35B

Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 17th April 20:19

carl_w said:

I believe real ones are £500k+

So thats £500k of car just parked up unsecured on a side street, fk me

[thinfourth2]

Well it's not like some chav is going to mistake it for a high performance car like a corsa and nick it

[mark_mcd]

Not a 35 but have come across this in the past

http://www.onyxsportscars.f9.co.uk/id21.htm

[davhill]

Looks like the genuine article, certainly isn't a Teal or a Dri-Sleeve (Google it!).

[bbc]

odyssey2200 said:

ASK Mid lists it as a Bugatti Type 35B

Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 17th April 20:19

depends which index number you put in

[carl_w]

thinfourth2 said:

Well it's not like some chav is going to mistake it for a high performance car like a corsa and nick it

Yes, if it's anything like the Fiat 509 I saw last week then the pedals aren't even in the standard layout.

[odyssey2200]

bbc said:

odyssey2200 said:

ASK Mid lists it as a Bugatti Type 35B

Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 17th April 20:19

depends which index number you put in

SV 2357

What did you put in and what did you get?

[carl_w]

odyssey2200 said:

SV 2357

What did you put in and what did you get?

You may have noticed it has SV 2357 on the back and SV 5723 on the front. If you put '"SV 2357" Bugatti' into Google (or '"SV 5723" Bugatti') there are no results. If there were only 43 Type 35Bs built I'd have expected a bunch of history to turn up.

[AndrewW-G]

Bug produced approx 360 type 35's in total, plenty of b spec cars (and dozens of perfect copies) to choose from

[mintno1]

I live in Saffron Walden, and work just up the road from where the photo was taken.
I am by no means an expert on these things, but I know of the person who owns this car
and as far as I can tell it is the real thing, I have spoken to him briefly a couple
of months ago but haven't seen him since to talk to him more, I believe he has 2.
Check out the pic below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_ayres/2560143127...

[Risotto]

Could be a Pur Sang or Tim Dutton. Hard to say, I don't know a great deal about either.

Edited by Risotto on Friday 14th May 14:51

[soad]

He has two?!

[Roo]

mintno1 said:

I live in Saffron Walden, and work just up the road from where the photo was taken.
I am by no means an expert on these things, but I know of the person who owns this car
and as far as I can tell it is the real thing, I have spoken to him briefly a couple
of months ago but haven't seen him since to talk to him more, I believe he has 2.
Check out the pic below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick_ayres/2560143127...

And they're so small he manages to get both of them in the cupboard under the stairs.

[Parrot of Doom]

On a tangent, what kit cars can one buy that look something like that? Joe-public money, obviously.

[soad]

Parrot of Doom said:

On a tangent, what kit cars can one buy that look something like that? Joe-public money, obviously.

Read this then:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...