From Swiss Starlet to Copperstate Babe.(Escape Roads)

Byline: LARRY EDSALL Each year participants in the Copperstate 1000 vintage car rally vote for the event vehicle they would most like to own. This year's 15th annual Copperstate 1000 attracted a record 82 entries, from rare early-1950s Ferraris to a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C2300 Spyder, and from a just restored Shelby GT350 to a 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.

But the car most coveted was a Bugatti Type 44 roadster. It's easy to see why. The Bugatti is long and sleek, and its inline 3.0-liter eight-cylinder engine-actually a pair of four-cylinder blocks with a common crankshaft-carries ...

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