Beautiful blue Bugatti bought

If you bought something in a sale, kept it preciously for many years, and then managed to sell it on for more than 300 times its original value – you’d be pleased, right?

Well, the family of a man who found an old Bugatti type 35B at an aerodrome 61 years ago have done just that.

Jack Perkins paid £60 for it (£1,300 in today’s money) and was determined to make the vehicle as good as new and faster than it had ever been before.

When the Bugatti’s saviour died in 1992, the vehicle was given to his widow who made sure that her late husband’s beloved automobile was displayed at Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset for all to see.

Recently however, the family decided it was time that the car was given a real home again and put it up for auction during this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. It fetched £430,500.

The car was bought by a private British buyer, a fact that the auction house are reportedly very pleased about.

Mr Perkins raced the car many times, and, although the engine was not quite up to speed after its lengthy time off the tarmac, hopefully the classic motor will once again have a chance to grace a UK race track after receiving a little love, affection and a thorough service from its new owner.