Interwar Czechoslovak motor sport
Bugatti 37A
1928
Czechoslovak car manufacturers were during the interwar period capable of producing almost any passenger or utility vehicles, so that only high-powered racing cars had to be imported from abroad. The easiest place to purchase them was the Bugatti car factory, which produced high-quality racing cars in larger numbers and commonly sold them even to amateur drivers.
Many Czechoslovak racing drivers thus used cars produced by this factory. The racing Bugatti 37A exhibited here was purchased in the spring of 1928 by Prague industrialist Miloš Bondy.
In 1928 at Ecce Homo and in 1929 at Zbraslav, he won with it the category of racing 1.5 litres and in both of those years, he became with best time on the day the absolute winner in the Brno-Soběšice race. Another person to successfully race with this car was Vladimír Gut, to whom Bondy often lent it.
Racing car with water-cooled four-stroke supercharged four-cylinder OHC engine placed lengthwise behind the front axle and with a rear-wheel drive. Engine displacement 1496 cc, output 66.2 kW (90 hp), maximum speed 175 km/h. Producer: Ettore Bugatti, Molsheim, France. This car is CN 37300. The late Mr. Jiri Silha rebuilt the car , which was heavily modified, to the current condition. After his death his daughter MUDr. Jitka Masojídková took over the Bugatti, and finally now her son Vojtech is driving it on a regular basis.