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Solved - NEH 2228: 1953 Alfa 6C 2000 Zagato rebuilt into spyder after wreck 1955
« on: November 08, 2012, 07:39:38 AM »
What was this originally and what was done to it by whom, when, where and why?

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Re: NEH 2228
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2012, 04:38:40 AM »
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Re: NEH 2228
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2012, 07:33:15 AM »
Easy bit - Alfa.

Edit - 6C 3000 CM, chassis 00125, registered MI 212039. Originally bodied as a coupe by Colli. Factory 1953 Mille Miglia entry and driven by Fangio at Le Mans; crashed, rebodied by Zagato as a coupe and then turned into a spyder. Raced by Scuderia Bonnier, hence the paint:



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Re: NEH 2228
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2012, 09:08:42 AM »
That's the car, yes, after it was rebuilt (by Zagato I believe) following its accident.
It now has a different nose, which I believe it acquired also around 1956 but no-one really seems to know why; perhaps it had a cooling problem with the original nose.

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