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GTC #44 SOLVED: Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy
« on: September 17, 2008, 10:50:44 AM »
Guess this car pretty please with sugar on top.

1 point for the correct answer.

Good luck!
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Re: GTC #44
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2008, 06:34:57 AM »
Good luck pros!
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Re: GTC #44
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2008, 03:20:44 AM »
Is this the Ballamy Bugatti T37?
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Re: GTC #44
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2008, 05:41:19 AM »
Quote from: neilshouse on September 30, 2008, 03:20:44 AM
Is this the Ballamy Bugatti T37?
I'm speechless...
Indeed it is the Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy.

May I ask how you managed to get this one? I found the car in a small garage in the back streets locally and have not been able to find anything more whatsoever.

Well done!
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Re: GTC #44 SOLVED: Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2008, 07:07:05 AM »
Pretty good, that.
I know of the work of Leslie Ballamy whose dedication to swing-axle front suspension defied reason, but didn't know he'd done that to a Bugatti.
I wonder if it worked? His Ford Anglias seemed to, but then they had the usual Ford unlocated transverse-spring, transverse drag-link arrangement which anything would have improved.
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Re: GTC #44 SOLVED: Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2008, 07:17:15 AM »
Quote from: Allan L on September 30, 2008, 07:07:05 AM
Pretty good, that.
I know of the work of Leslie Ballamy whose dedication to swing-axle front suspension defied reason, but didn't know he'd done that to a Bugatti.
I wonder if it worked? His Ford Anglias seemed to, but then they had the usual Ford unlocated transverse-spring, transverse drag-link arrangement which anything would have improved.
Can't say I know much more about this, only that it's the Monacian Embassary's in Melbourne...
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Re: GTC #44 SOLVED: Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2008, 02:43:24 AM »
Quote from: DHoffmann on September 30, 2008, 05:41:19 AM
I'm speechless...
Indeed it is the Bugatti T37 Special by Leslie Ballamy.

May I ask how you managed to get this one? I found the car in a small garage in the back streets locally and have not been able to find anything more whatsoever.

Well done!

I found it by what I call 'educated googling', my first thought was that it looked like a Bugatti with different front suspension and the only 'front suspension' names that came to me were Bowden and Ballamy.
I didn't know it existed before yesterday either.

There are some recent pics of it on this site - http://www.historicracing.com.au/thumbnails/hw08/index.html - but not a great deal of info.
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