🎥 Traveling in a 1926 Bugatti 37 A

This Bugatti Type 37 A, which participated in the Valli e Nebbie 2022, was bought by Alex De Angelis, who traced its history: “The car was built in 1926 as a Type 37 and immediately began his racing career with drivers including Jack Lemn Burton, an official driver of the brand ”, says the expert. “The racer, who owned and used Bugattis regularly and traded them, modified the model by installing a volumetric compressor and, since the car was used exclusively for circuit racing, he transformed it into a single-seater. When he realized that the stability had increased considerably, he switched from the 4-cylinder engine to a 3000cc 8-cylinder engine, mounting larger rear tires, with special rims. And so the car remained, with this configuration, up to four years ago”. When Alex De Angelis bought it as he found his old engine, albeit exploded, in England. “I didn’t want it right there because it was completely destroyed. However, when I saw the car at an auction and read the number of the engine it should have fitted, I remembered the engine I had seen and bought both the car and its engine, however much it had exploded. In my company we then completely restored it to how it was originally and mounted it back in its place”, he explains. “The car is still equipped with a superchared engine and we left it with the aluminum rims that were typical of the T37 A: here are the only two changes it has compared to when it was born”.