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Flying With Pegasus: The continuing story of Alfa Romeo #50013

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By Peter Darnall

Any of the racing Alfa Romeos from the decade of the 1930s will fetch a king’s ransom in today’s collector market. Put a Tipo C on the block and the opening bids would normally be associated with high-end real estate properties. When the rarest of them all, a 1935 8C-35 with matching engine and chassis number 50013, was offered by Bonhams in 2013, the winning bid was the highest price ever paid for a single seat racer! [Read more…] about Flying With Pegasus: The continuing story of Alfa Romeo #50013

Portello at Goodwood in English and Italian

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Marco Cajani takes the F1 Alfa out at Goodwood. Photo by Hugues Vanhoolandt.

By Roberto Motta
Photos by Roberto Motta, “Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring, Documentation Center (Arese, Milan)” Archive and Scuderia del Portello

Every year the “Festival of Speed at Goodwood” blends the charm of historic cars with the latest generation of prototypes; the charisma of the old, with cars such as the featured Alfa Romeo 183T F1 car, with the latest high tech wonders.

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Alfa Romeo 177-001: All-Italian Alfa F1

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alfa 177 Vittorio Brambilla Monza in 1979 with the all-Italian Alfa Romeo 177. Archive photography by Automobilismo Storico Alfa Romeo Centro Documentazione (Arese, Milano).

Story by Roberto Motta

Even though many people have not heard of it, the Alfa Romeo 177 is one of the most important cars in the long racing history of Alfa Romeo.
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Alfa’s Pre War Titans, Part II

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Tazio Nuvolari, Peter Greenfield
and two Tipo C Alfa Romeo 8C35s

Color photos by www.rprincephoto.com

By Pete Vack

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Greenfield at Mt Tremblant with Tipo C 8C35 chassis #50015C, the last “C” standing for clone.

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At Monterey, Greenfield brought out the real thing; the ex-Nuvolari, ex-Ruesch, ex-Poore 8C35, chassis #50013.

Peter Greenfield is in the enviable position of owning and racing not one but two pre-war Alfa Romeo Grand Prix cars. Furthermore, chassis 50013 which he acquired from Peter Giddings in 2005, is the only complete, original Tipo 8C35 in the world.
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