Bugatti Marks The 80th Anniversary Of The Type 59 Racer

The Bugatti Type 59 marked the French automaker’s last foray into Grand Prix racing in the 1930s. Although Bugatti’s Type 35 dominated competition in the late 1920s, the firm’s later efforts (such as the Type 51, Type 54 and Type 59) simply couldn’t compete with state-backed models from Germany and Italy. To mark the 80th…