Author Topic: SAC#468 :Alfa Romeo Tipo 8C-2300 Corto Spider Corsa supercharged chassis # 2111027; originally with Zagato and rebodied in the late 30's  (Read 1631 times)

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2015, 07:36:45 AM »
Not a Maserati.

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2015, 07:57:17 AM »
There is a very similar body on an Alfa Romeo 8C2300, apparently, and according to Simon Moore's book. However, I don't have a daughter I can sell in order to buy a copy.
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2015, 07:59:19 AM »
There is a very similar body on an Alfa Romeo 8C2300, apparently, and according to Simon Moore's book. However, I don't have a daughter I can sell in order to buy a copy.
:lmao:
You are pretty near to the solution there...

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2015, 08:11:16 AM »
So is it a 6C1750?

I misread the website on which I thought I'd found the answer. This is the car which had been identified as possibly an 8C2300, but it's not the same.
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I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2015, 08:24:07 AM »
This car has been posted before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24724.msg275938#msg275938

It is Alfa Romeo Tipo 8C-2300 Corto Spider Corsa supercharged chassis # 2111027; originally a Scuderia Ferrari Zagato Spider which was 2nd in the 1932 24 hrs of Spa-Francorchamps. It later had a closed Zagato body and then the open style.


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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2015, 08:31:14 AM »
This car has been posted before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=24724.msg275938#msg275938

It is Alfa Romeo Tipo 8C-2300 Corto Spider Corsa supercharged chassis # 2111027; originally a Scuderia Ferrari Zagato Spider which was 2nd in the 1932 24 hrs of Spa-Francorchamps. It later had a closed Zagato body and then the open style.


You found the car!
I will merge the 2 puzzles, but I'm going to add also a picture of the Berlinetta body by Zagato.
If the coachbuilder of this car was not known back then, I think it will remain unknown.
I thought it could be Vanden Plas, ( http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=17916.msg176589#msg176589 ) but it was just an idea.

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Re: PJ - 685 - Who will be 1st?
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2015, 09:57:43 AM »
And today with replica of first Zagato Spider body.

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Merged!
Point for ropat53, again.  ;)