• Delivered new in the UK • Resident in Australia for most of its life • Restored and re-bodied in the 1980s • Well documented • Requires recommissioning "Bugattis encapsulate concepts of engineering which, once seen, change your ideas radically and definitively.

Drive them, and you realise that each car is form and engineering in equilibrium, and a work of art." – William Stobbs, Les Grandes Routières .

By the early 1930s, Ettore Bugatti - 'Le Patron' - had established an unrivalled reputation for building cars with outstanding performance on road or track, the world's greatest racing drivers enjoying countless successes aboard the Molsheim factory's products and often choosing them for their everyday transport.

Bugatti's origins, though, were a far cry from the glamorous world of Grands Prix.

Italian-born engineer Ettore Bugatti had learned his trade with De Dietrich, Mathis and Deutz before setting up his own factory in 1910 at Molsheim in Alsace, which was then part of Germany....