{"id":59885,"date":"2021-01-13T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=59885"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:56:50","slug":"bugatti-type-37-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bugatti-type-37-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugatti Type 37 Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Below the extremely successful Type 35, Bugatti positioned the smaller Type 37 Grand Prix starting in 1925. While the basic design language was adopted, it originally served as a road-going, two-seater sports car and voiturette. Nevertheless, many customers also used the Type 37 in motorsports. From Type 22 and Type 23 came the 1.5-liter inline four-cylinder engine with two intake and one exhaust valve per cylinder. Engine output was initially around 60 hp. With the later introduced Type 37 A with supercharger, it increased to up to 100 hp. Compared to the Type 35, a narrower horseshoe grille was used. In addition, there were wire-spoke wheel ex works. The aluminium wheels of the Type 35, each with eight wide spokes, were available at extra cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turpentine manufacturer as first owner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of the presumably 300 or so examples of this model series built, around 220 were Type 37s without supercharger. Today, just over 130 vehicles still exist worldwide. The pictures in our gallery show the car with chassis number 37227, which was first delivered in December 1926. For the then purchase price of 46,400 Francs it went to Ren\u00e9 Bacon in Luxey in the southwest of France. Monsieur Bacon had become a hero of World War 1 and now owned some large forests in the region. He made his money by producing turpentine from pine. A surviving newspaper article shows that he drove his Bugatti at least once in a race in Pau on February 5, 1927. He finished this race in third place. The following year, he lent the Type 37 to the racing driver Louis Rigal for the Bugatti Grand Prix in Le Mans. However, Rigal retired after the first lap.<\/p>\n\n\n

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