Bugatti the star of Art Deco Festival 2025

Next month, the Hawkes Bay Vintage Car Club, in collaboration with the Art Deco Trust, will host the annual Art Deco Rally in Napier. This year, the focus falls on Bugatti, the French marque being the Art Deco Festival’s featured car.

From February 12th to 16th, expect to see a number of Bugattis and other cars from the 1920s cruising the streets of Napier and the wider Hawke’s Bay region, participating in the various rally events organised by the Hawkes Bay Vintage Car Club.

The highlight of the weekend will be the gathering of cars on Saturday the 15th in front of the Napier Sound Shell. Of the 15 known Bugatti’s in New Zealand, 12 will be present, including an impressive collection of four Type 57 models. 

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One of these is a Type 57 Atlantic recreation. Of the four Atlantics originally produced, only two are known to survive. Tom Andrews from the Classics museum in Hamilton, New Zealand, acquired a barn-find Type 57 in France ten years ago. As Andrews set about fully restoring the Type 57 Ventoux, he was inspired to also build a faithful recreation of one of the lost Atlantic models too . This recreation will be unveiled to the public on Thursday, February 15th, at the Masonic Hotel on Napier’s Marine Parade.