Can it be that both cars the same licence 12545-TO had
Who has good information? Thanks

#4866 - Licence plate: 12545 TO (I)


#4867 - Licence plate: 12545-TO (I)

Top picture - 4866

TO = Torino = Turin. Picture taken at Pozzo 19280325 three weeks before driver Pietro Bordino was killed at Allesandria.

BORDINO, Pietro (“Il Diavolo Rosso”).

A promising Italian driver who had been the driver of the Fiat which beat the Bugatti team in the 1922 Italian Grand Prix. He remained loyal to Fiat and became the last person to win a Grand Prix in one at Monza in 1927. He purchased a type 35C (chassis no. 4866) which he collected from Molshiem on the 14th March 1928. Two weeks later, on the 31st he participated in the Mille Miglia driving a type 43 carrying the registration no. 6557-WW20, but only managed to finish in 16th place having been delayed with a sticking throttle. He died on the (15th) 22nd April 1928 whilst practicing in the 35C for an eight lap race over the tough 20 mile Circuito di Alessandria on the plains of Lombardy. He had hit a dog which jammed the steering. This caused the car to crash into the parapet of a bridge over the River Tanaro. The car fell into the river and drowned its driver. “Pictures ; see “Memoirs of a Bugatti Hunter” (p.170-1and 233). It was subsequently returned to the factory and rebuilt.

4866
A type 35C with order no. 264 which was fitted with engine 175. it was collected from Molsheim on 14th March, 1928 by Pietro Bordino carrying the “trade plate” registration 6560 “Pictures ; see “Memoirs of a Bugatti Hunter” (p.170-1)

4867
A type “35TC” with engine 137 completed in December, 1926 which was sold for a discounted price to Alberto Musy in Turin, Italy in May, 1928. In 2005 it was acquired by Giovanni Stabeuni who is believed to still own it. (This chassis no. was apparently attributed to the type 35B entered by M.E. Marshall in the International Bugatti Rally in 1990. This car had previously been given the UK BOC chassis plate BC 043).

good plan ! We should put this number on ALL our Bugattis.That would confuse the historians.