Alfa Romeo’s 8C 2900 represented the pinnacle of the company’s sport-racing program in the late 1930s, when Enzo Ferrari managed the Alfa Romeo team. The 8C 2900 won four Mille Miglias; 1936 (Brivio/Ongaro); 1937 (Pintacula/Mambelli) and 1938, when Biondetti/Stefani won at 84.6 mph – a record which stood until 1953.
The first post-war Mille Miglia in 1947 was won by Biondetti/Romano in a 1938 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, helped by appalling weather which nearly drowned Nuvolari in his Cisitalia roadster.
One of the ultimate sports cars of its day, the 2.9 Alfa Romeo naturally became the play thing of kings and princes, and wealthy patrons of the European motor racing scene.
Fewer than 40 of these fabulous machines were produced, and each had inevitably become the automotive equivalent of a Rembrandt painting.
Sought after by collectors and admired by all automotive enthusiasts, these cars have all the ingredients from which a legend is made.
Simon Moore has spent most of his spare time for more than twenty years researching the history of the 2.9s.
This book presents the fascinating fruits of his passionate hobby. The many photographs in the book were selected from almost 1500 images gathered by Simon and loaned to him by many enthusiasts.
His ‘autobiographies’ of the individual 2.9 cars were compiled from personal interviews, extensive correspondence and meticulous personal inspection of almost every car.
Because some cars have been rebodied, cannibalized, rebuilt and otherwise modified over the years, Simon’s scholarly confirmation of their individual identities and histories often reads like a good detective story.
And like most good detective stories, the reader is left with a few unsolved mysteries to ponder.
Published in 1986 in only 2500 copies, this valuable publication has become a very difficult to find and thus a true collectors' piece, as well as a reference work.
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