This is the tale of a wonderful old racing machine, now fast approaching its 100th birthday but still enjoying an active competition life in the hands of vintage racing enthusiast and collector Andrew Larson. It’s a 1927 Bugatti Type 37A Grand Prix racer, chassis number 37265, and it has been driven by many individuals, including a Frenchwoman named Anne-Cécile Itier who delighted in pulling on her cloth helmet and goggles and mixing it up with her male counterparts. Before we…

Peter Falkner