This shaped racing car was built by Ettore BUGATTI for the "Grand Prix de Tours" in 1923; his particular body profiled as a wing of plane was worth the nickname of " tank" to it.

Very short wheelbase (2 meters), engine of the Type 30, gear box and rear axle of the Type 28, flattened frame.

DE VISCAYA reached 190 km/h in Arpajon, but this body was too "bearing" and the car tended "to take off" at high speed …

- opening front and rear bonnets;

- spare wheel maintained by leather belts;

- unscrewing radiator and gasoline tank stoppers;

- direction by screw box;

- accelerator actuating the linkage of the carburettors;

- handbrake lever applying the brakes in the rear drums;

- clutch pedal actuating the apparent mechanism;

- functional footbrake pedal;

- functional oil and gasoline pumps;

- steering wheel in wood;

- quick disconnects equipped with springs allowing to deposit the body and to discover the whole

mechanics represented in manner fantastically hyperrealist;

- seats made up of leather cushions as in the real car;

- entirely riveted and bored body with many hearing of ventilation;

- etc. …

Very mechanical model, with removable body from the frame, realizable on order at 1/8 scale, price : 63000 € .

BUGATTI Type 32 "Tank" 1923