At the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an unprecedented victory went to an unrestored 1934 Bugatti named Best of Show. Here are more of our favorites.
On August 18, the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the most revered and important automotive competition in the world, once again presented an assemblage of the finest collector cars as it’s now done for 73 years.
According to co-owner Earl Waggoner, a former airline pilot, this car is the actual example tested by Road & Track when the model came out, and he purchased the vehicle after seeing it posted in a Ferrari Club newsletter for $10,000 in 1973. This was the first time Waggoner participated in Pebble. “I’m really not into showing ,” says Waggoner, adding that “99.9 percent of the people think it’s a nice car, and I think it’s a nice car.
“I wanted a Bugatti that I could drive . . . I found this car and convinced my husband to buy it,” says Mrs. Hull, “and I’m taking it to Japan, with my girlfriends, to do the International Bugatti Run.” When asked what it was that drew her to the car, she noted that, “it’s smaller than our other Bugattis, so I think I can drive it—oh, and it isn’t green.
Boyle ordered a car from the factory for the 1938 race, which was delivered with the wrong drivetrain. A second car was ordered and arrived just in time for Shaw to compete in the 1939 race. Shaw and the car performed brilliantly, taking the checkered flag to become the first driver of an Italian car to win Indy. Miraculously, he took the checkered flag again in 1940, driving the same car. To this day, it remains the only Italian marque to win America’s most famous race.
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