Topic: Vintage Racing Cars in Kodachrome - Your Contributions are Welcome!

[Otto Puzzell]

 

[Iluvatar]

What is the red car in the last picture? looks like an Alfa 2500 by PininFarina merged to a Ferrari 375 MM...

[mekubb]

That's a mystery car.....will be a puzzle soon, I know very little about it....so may be we can solve it on Autopuzzles !

[mekubb]

New information popped up about the red car, previously a puzzle from Saco https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2015-44/sac919-alfa-romeo-6c-2500-1952-(-castagna-)/msg355967/#msg355967

Recent research by IMRRC in the USA shows that the car is not Alfa Romeo based. It does have an Alfa 6C2500 engine and it is indeed bodied by Castagna. But.... the base car is a BMW, probably a 328. Of course this is quite strange because I assume that Castagna would never have bodied a BMW with an Alfa engine. Probably the BMW power unit has been replaced by the Alfa engine somewhere in history.

I have never heard of a Castagna bodied BMW that looks like the one in the photos. But may be my fellow Autopuzzlers can shed some light to this ?

[mekubb]

Italy all the way 

[nicanary]

1948 Watkins Glen. How I wish modern racing could be as diverse and interesting.