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Featured is a rare surviving Type 30, clothed by Lavocat & Marsaud with a Torpedo style body. One of Bugatti's favoured coachbuilders, they had also been responsible for the single seater bodies for the Indy cars. The car was delivered to its first, French owner in the spring of 1926. The subsequent history is not entirely clear, but the car eventually ended up in Uruguay, in the hands of local Bugatti collector EJ Carvallido. In the early 1970 the car was brought to the UK by Colin Crabbe and almost immediately sold to an Australian collector. He had the engine, which was in pieces, completely rebuilt and fitted with a period correct high performance crankshaft and camshaft. These were crafted in 1926 by an RAF engineer for his own Type 30.
After being actively used throughout the 1980s at various events in Australia, the car was sold at an auction in Melbourne in 1990. The new owner had the engine rebuilt once more, but only used the Type 30 very rarely. He eventually let the car go in 2007 during Bonhams' Olympia auction where it sold for just under £300,000.
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