1920s Red Bugatti Brescia Roadster

"1920 Bugatti Brescia Roadster" 

In its earliest days Bugatti was a German then French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The cars were known for their design beauty and for their many race victories.

Ettore Bugatti's claim to fame was that the designed and built extremely successful race cars.The company enjoyed great early success in early Grand Prix motor racing. The little Bugatti Type 10 swept the top four positions at its first race.

In 1920 Ettore Bugatti entered two complete cars Type 13 Bugatti Brescia at the Grand Prix for Voiturettes at Le Mans in France. The Type 13 cars were unbeatable. Bugatti's cars finished in the top four places at the Brescia Grand Prix in 1921, and orders poured in. Capitalizing on this victory, all subsequent four-valve Bugatti models bore the Brescia moniker.

The Bugatti Type 35, developed by Bugatti with master engineer and racing driver Jean Chassagne, won their first Grand Prix in 1924 Lyon. The Bugatti racing cars would go on to obtain victory in the Targa Florio for five years straight from 1925 through 1929. In 1929 a privately entered Bugatti won the first ever Monaco Grand Prix. Racing success culminated with driver Jean-Pierre Wimille winning the 24 hours of Le Mans twice (in 1937 with Robert Benoist and 1939 with Pierre Veyron).

Race car driver Louis Chiron held the most podiums for Bugatti cars and note that the more modern 1999 Bugatti 18/3 Chiron concept car was named in his honour. Perhaps considered on of Ettore Bugatti's greatest success was when Jean-Pierre Wimille and Pierre Veyron with just one car won the 1939 Le Mans in France -just six months before World War II would begin.

The death of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 caused the famous marque go close. With the death of Ettore's son Jean Bugatti in 1939 there was no heir to lead the factory. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in 1963.

However, in 1987, an Italian entrepreneur bought the brand and revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars based in Modena. Then in 1998, the Volkswagen Group bought the rights to the Bugatti marque and set up a subsidiary based back in Molsheim, Alsace.

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Color Changing Fine Art Print
Photographer: Gerhard G. from Germany
Composition by: EFX Gallery
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Sources: Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_13#Type_23_Brescia_Tourer

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