Category:Bugatti Type 35 C Grand Prix 1929 (chassis 4928)

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1929 Bugatti Type 35 C grand Prix chassis 4928.

  • 28 March 1929, registered by Automobiles Ettore Bugatti at Préfecture du Bas-Rhin as type 35 number 4928.[1]
  • 5 May, 1929 Albert Divo won Targa Florio, entry #10, license plate "1974-NV".
    • (some controversy as to if Minoia's car #36 Type 35C actually was s/n 4928, currently in the Schlumpf museum. If this is true, then the correct chassis number of Divo's car would be 4923, and the Minoia car was 18 May 1929 delivered to Jean de l’Espée with entine no 179
  • 1931 sold by Essor Auto in Paris, to Eugen Bjørnstad, Norway, who restamped engine as 4696 to avoid taxes (and to make it "fit" with his other Bugatti Type 35 (non compressore) s/n 4696 he bought from Malcolm Campbell in 1930)?[2]
  • 1934 sold to Albert Hovde, Tønsberg. Raced at Jarlsberg (see below)[3]
  • ca 1940? sold to Sweden, raced...
  • 1956? sold to Lennart Haajanen, some restorations
  • 1990 sold
  • 2002, sold to Walter Rothlauf, Germany. Raced many times as #10 since (Goodwood etc).

Book: Lennart W. Haajanen, Bugatti Type 35C No. 4928

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