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

August 25, 2020 By pete

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

Alfa’s Pre War Titans, Part II

September 10, 2008 By pete

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 â€œCâ€ 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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Shell Ferrari Historics at Mt. Tremblant

July 30, 2008 By pete

Story by David Seibert, photos by rprincephoto.com

Track owner Lawrence Stroll in the blue Sunoco 512M taking an early lead. He would dominate the disc brakes set.

Mt. Tremblant, Canada, July 18-20th

The field for the Ferrari Shell Historic Challenge event last weekend may have been slightly smaller than usual, but fans were treated to four exciting races, with titans batting for the win in each. Le Circuit, the winding 2.65 mile track in the old Quebec ski country of Mont Tremblant, was an ideal setting for those duels.
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