Captions and Photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
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Starting ceremony for this 1927 O.M. Superba. O.M. (for Officine Meccaniche) won the first edition of the Mille Miglia in 1927.
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This Ferrari 250 GT Boano s/n 0533 GT took part to the last Mille Miglia, in 1957, with race number 415.
No one ALFA in your picture layout? Fiats, Ferraris and the only pre-war cars were two OM’s and a Fiat? Who approved this layout?
Digusting isn’t it! But we have you covered and then some next week with our feature on the Coppa Intereuropa event. There will be an entire story on the Alfas, Portello and otherwise, that participated in this huge event. Plus, coming up, everything you wanted to know about the Alfa Berlina 1300.
Ed.
There were an INCREDIBLE number of outstanding Alfa Romeo cars at the 2011 “California” Mille hosted each year by Martin Swigg in Northern California.