I saw some pictures on my Facebook feed of this car. My jaw dropped and I immediately set about trying to find more information on it. I think it might be my favorite car... period. From what I can tell it was built (recently) in Argentina by Pur Sang, which builds mostly concours quality replicas of Bugattis etc., but I can't find much information on this car other than what I can see by looking at it. This thing has all the cool shit... fighter plane aesthetics, aero engine, dual chain drive, brass radiator surround, wire wheels, bomblet fuel tank-- it's perfect! How can there be no info about it except what I could scrape together from a few random blog posts? How was it built? Why? Has it ever seen a track? I'd love to see more if anyone knows anything - but mostly I just wanted to share.
It looks better with the fenders. The owner must get tired answering questions about what it is, what he started with. The next owner will get tired too and wonder why he spent whatever to buy it. Bob
If I owned it I would make up the most outrageous lies to explain what it was and leave it to the listener to figger it out
Neat, reminds me of @Drmalacarne 's V12 speedster from Brazil. South America seems to have a long history of speedster racing, I know a lot of American LaFrance fire engines have gone there and been made into race cars.
What I know is that there is a shop there that makes these replicas from scratch and I believe that they got the measurements of everything from an original Bugatti that they once restored.
That’s awesome. Love these “vintage” pre-war speedsters. Seems like the roof/canopy is fabric just like on planes of that era. [edit] I guess not after checking out the link to the FB page posted earlier. Also noted a modern electric radiator fan.
The electric fan makes sense… that is an air cooled engine originally with water jackets around the cylinders. I’d wanna take every precaution to make sure I didn’t fry that one of a kind mill, even if not strictly period.
effectively!! that car was built in Argentina by Pur Sang known for its replicas of Bugatti, Alfa and other special cars like this car with an airplane engine! a while ago I visited the workshop when the car was in a state of rolling chassis without bodywork! The engine is a 6-cylinder, 14-liter, 250 HP Nicola Romeo brand, which was an Isotta Fraschini aircraft engine division.
On the video says that the car was inspired by the Chitty Bang Bang was the informal name of a number of celebrated British racing cars, built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Bang_Bang
Chitty Bang Bang fully functional tribute replica from original plans for sale right now on Pre-War-Car for a mere 265000 GB pounds.
There was a video on YouTube of Leno explaining: You could by a Bugatti for 15 millions or a Pur sang Bugatti replica for 3 millions... Something like this! I think Leno bought a Bugatti T35, remember a Fiat Botafogo with aircraft engine too.
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