hello john !

have just found some nice pics of your unrestored car way back some decades in the bugatti pages of
www.forum-auto.com.

must have been a great impression living in a time were many unrestored gems had been around.

best regards
mike

I could not find these photos,but it was sadly not my T37,but my customers.Simon Bull.His insistance on total originality resulted in one of the very best T37's to be found.I have a full photo album of the detailed work on this car.It was a pleasure to work on such a good car.There is an interesting detail in the sparewheel leather strap.It is very beautifully stitched and detailed.Margaret Bond was from the Basildon Bond paper family, and loved to ride [horses] it may be that she visited Molsheim and that this was done specially for her.I have copied this nice detail and all the T35 /37/51's restored subsequently have this type of strap.

I know you sent me a bunch of pictures, but it might be nice for others to see this original T37 that you restored, as well as the spare wheel strap. I know I would be interested!

Best regards,

Andrew

I did not have a very good camera in those penny pinching days.I have however taken these shots this morning,of one of my new sparewheel straps,made to pattern from the Margaret Bond car.You will notice that the ring in the centre is leather covered,and the stitching is much more like what we might imagine Bugatti would have made.It is quite surprising that GP Bugattis did not all have something like this given Ettore's love of saddlework.His normal sparewheel straps are very crude by comparison.Has anyone else seen this quality on another definately original strap? [The strap on the Bond car is definately the original]

dear john ( lazarus) !

to find the photos , take this way:
- www.forum-auto.com

- click "collections" in the upper string of various car-themes

- click "forum anciennes

- than you get a register of all topics in this forum. look for the topic: "il etait une for.....Bugatti
( easy to find cause they have 392 pages)

- at last, put in " aller a la page": 391, this is the pagenr. were you can see the pics. a great forum ( in french !!) but allways with stuning photos.

you live in vienne??? greatest place on earth for their anual django festival...

regards from austria
mike

YU 2200
A UK registration issued to car 37238 with engine 147 on 2nd. October, 1927. Jack Lemon Burton. 1985 ; Simon Bull. Pale blue. Fitted with Marchal headlamps, wire wheels and aeroscreens. 23rd. Latterly driven by Robert and John Day. September, 2006. Winner of the Bugatti Handicap class at Prescott driven by John Day (no. 61).

The car has had quite an interesting history including having been over the top of the banking at Brooklands by one Miss Bond and having been fitted with an Anzani engine.

It has been a regular performer at Prescott in recent years. I've got some nice detailed pictures of the car there this summer - see flickr.com.

Not over the top of the banking please.Margaret Bond spun it around and hit the fence on the bottom of the banking.I have the newspaper article from the time.She was a really game lady and came to have a drive in the car after I finished the restoration.John Day took her for a spin.She through away her stick and leapt in like a teenager.She was very poorly and both her sons [themselves no spring chickens]wrote to thank us as their mother had had a very good day with us,one of very few good days that she had at the end. Malcolm Cambell repaired the car for her and then sold it on her behalf.A wonderful history and a very original car despite it's history.