Description Genuine Teal-built four-seater; aluminium body; Marina running gear; just two owners since 2001; reconditioned gearbox and new clutch; recent service; very smart; very tempting! Even in today’s market, any genuine Bugatti GP car from the 1920s is going to set you back at least £300k and perhaps up to £4m for one with a distinguished race history.

For the many who yearn for the early Molsheim cars, a replica is the only conceivable option which is why Ian Foster, a former chassis designer for Daimler, set up Thistledown Engineering Automotive Ltd in 1983.

Better known as Teal, they specialised in producing replicas of the Bugatti Type 35 with Morris Marina running gear and GRP bodies.

In 1986 a former AA patrolman called Bob Jones bought Teal from Foster and decided to step things up a gear, creating a new steel box section chassis of great strength and rigidity clothed in a hand-made aluminium body.

Not to be confused with a kit car, these later Teal-built Bugatti repli...