Cars

Mullin’s fascination with Bugattis became apparent more than 30 years ago, when he came across a Type 35B at Laguna Seca Raceway. Since then, he has amassed 41 important models of various vintages, the vast majority of which have formed a new exhibition at the museum he founded in 2010. Highlight exhibits include a Type 35C that won more than 1,000 races in period, the famous ‘lake-find’ Type 22 Brescia, and a Type 57SC Atlantic bought recently by Mullin for upwards of $30m.

At August Porsche Addiction in Belgium, there’s always something special to see, be it a 1973 2.7 RS or rare factory racing machines. But one 911 from the diverse collection is something rather unusual. At first glance it seems like an ordinary G-Series Carrera. However, that whale-tail Turbo spoiler and the unusual script emblazoned on the side have us sitting up and taking notice, as we realise it's one of the highly desirable Carrera Clubsport models… 

Belgium’s Porsche institution

"I like all cars, they just have to be special"

Gérard Dulait is the Peter Pan of the sports car business. On first impressions, it is easy to tell this isn’t just a job for him. He’s full of youthful ambition and enthusiasm, and has been for 30 years. Dulait’s first encounter with a car was at the tender age of 12, when he bought a Volkswagen Beetle and drove around the neighbourhood – without a licence, of course. Passion knows no rules!

The Continental name was first used for enhanced-specification Rolls-Royces long before WWII – but with post-War recovery bringing with it the advent of a high-speed road system across Europe, it was to become an appellation reserved for the Bentleys best equipped to exploit it. The first Bentley Continental (only named an R-Type retrospectively) would arrive in 1952, mechanically overhauled for a bias towards long-distance, high-speed cruising.

Full throttle from the word ‘go’