Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix, Yellow #58 with Female Racer

Eliška Junková, who raced as Elisabeth Junek, was the outstanding woman driver of the Bugatti era. At the 1928 Targa Florio she drove a black and yellow Type 35B carrying number 58, ran fourth on elapsed time after the first lap, barely 30 seconds behind Louis Chiron's works car, and was still in contention on the final lap when a puncture cost her two minutes and the stop left the engine overheating. She nursed the car home fifth of only twelve finishers, behind the winner, Albert Divo. Later that summer her husband, Čeněk Junek, was killed at the Nürburgring, and she gave up racing. CMC dedicates this yellow set to the 'speed queens' of the period without naming a driver, but number 58 was hers in Sicily.

The Type 35 is painted a warm, even yellow with a black 58 on the bonnet sides, tan leather straps over the bonnet and spare wheel, and a tan leather seat. The louvred bonnet lifts to show the straight-eight with its brass carburettors and copper lines, and the cockpit has an engine-turned dashboard and a cord-bound wheel. Beside the car stands the figurine of a woman driver in belted white overalls, with leather helmet and goggles, hands on hips. Sold together as a two-piece set, it is limited to 600 pieces and built by CMC at 1:18.