Bugatti and The Little Car Company have unveiled the Baby II Type 35 Centenary Edition, designed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the vintage racing car.
The electric, 75-percent-scale Baby Bugatti features an aluminium body, brass identification plates inside its cockpit and a Bleu de Lyon paint scheme that pays tribute to the six original Type 35 competition models.
Each car has a unique chassis number to match one of the originals, plus hand-painted race numbers on its bodywork. Potentially, they can be made road-legal.
Scaled-down and special
The Baby II Type 35 Centenary Edition was developed using a 3D scan of the original 1924 Bugatti Grand Prix car.
Oxfordshire-based The Little Car Company already makes a version of the Type 35, along with downsized replicas of the Aston Martin DB5 and Ferrari Testa Rossa.
Despite their playful side, TLCC founder Ben Hedley insists his vehicles aren’t toys: “We take classic cars that are now too valuable to drive, then shrink them down 25 percent,” he told Motoring Research.
The most successful racing car ever?
Introduced in 1924, just five full-size Type 35s were built – plus a prototype. They were raced for a decade and, during that period, the cars achieved some 2,500 wins and podium places.
According to Bugatti, that makes the Type 35 ‘the most successful racing car of all time’ – a claim we’re not about to argue with.
All six examples of the Centenary Edition have already been sold and are destined for ‘private collectors across the globe’. However, the ‘standard’ Type 35 is still available from The Little Car Company, priced from £25,000.
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