Sold | 1920 Bugatti Type 23 'Brescia Modifie' Roadster Coachwork by Baer of Berlin

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£157,500

1920 Bugatti Type 23 'Brescia Modifie' Roadster Coachwork by Baer of Berlin

United Kingdom • 15 Mar 2023

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This 1920 Bugatti Type 23 'Brescia Modifie' Roadster, with coachwork by Baer of Berlin, is a remarkably original car with some replacement parts that have been in place for a long time. It is one of only three surviving Diatto-Bugattis, with potential eligibility for the Mille Miglia Storica.

Condition

6

While the car is described as remarkably original with no replica parts, it lacks its original front axle and gearbox. The engine block is also cracked. The coachwork is sourced from another car. These factors detract from a higher rating.

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Transmission:

Manual

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Reg Number:

BF 6460

RHD/LHD:

RHD

"Light cars as a class are surprising to those accustomed only to heavier boats; but the Bugatti holds revelations for those even well-accustomed to light cars in general.

The suspension is uncannily perfect.

The steering is a delight.

The response to the spur makes one forget the lightness of the whole outfit; but the craft embodied in the complete make-up is such that a very tyro could come down off the banking on the forward side of the Members' Bridge at Brooklands well up in the 70s, and yet hit the Railway Straight without anything in the way of alarm" (E.

Duffield, Automotor Journal, April 1921).

The inter-related Types 13, 22 and 23 were the cars which established Bugatti's reputation as one of the world's pre-eminent sportscar manufacturers.

Known as Brescia Bugattis following the virtuoso 1-2-3-4 finish achieved by a highly tuned quartet of their siblings at a Voiturette race held in the Italian town of the same name during September 1921, the diminutive Molsheim machin...