Bugatti Argentina £90 plus p&p
This wonderful book by Cristian Ariel Bertschi and Estanislao Maria Iacona is superbly illustrated and charts, with over 200 stunning black and white photographs, the lasting love affair between Argentina and Bugatti. Following the success of their earlier acclaimed book Alfa Romeo Argentina, the authors turned their attentions to Bugatti, arguably the marque closest to the Argentine heart. The story starts with the arrival of the first Bugatti in the mid twenties and covers the halcyon years from 1926-36 when Bugatti triumphed in all the Argentine races, including the famous 500 Miles of Rafaela. Also from this time are photographs taken when and Buenos Aires Zoo purchased a dozen Type 52s for the capital's children to enjoy.
One of the most colourful characters in the book is Bugatti racer Eric Forrest Greene, father of the recently retired Jackie Forest Greene, Chief Technical Adviser to Pur Sang, who is also pictured as a young boy with his baby Bugatti.
The sixties marked a revival of the marque with a frenetic period of rediscovery and renovation by two devoted Bugattists Horacio Sperati and Enrique Sanchez Ortega, and the book culminates with the story of Jorge Anadon and his company Pur Sang, who in the past decade have recreated many of the Bugatti models and spares, chief among them the iconic Type 35B, in a factory which also recreates the ambience of a 1920s workshops.
The Old Racing Car Company has a very limited number of signed copies of the Bugatti Argentina, priced £100 plus p&p.
