The Greatest Stories Ever Told
By Pete Vack
The Immortal 2.9
Price: $295
Pages: 480, with 500 b&w and color photos
Dimensions: 10.5″ x 10.5″
Order here
A question: Which member of the Romanian royalty purchased a Touring bodied 2.9 in the early years of World War II? Was it Carol, the King himself, brother Nicolas “who drove a Duesenburg at Le Mans,” or the exuberant young son, Michael? For forty years arguments reigned among the historians. In 2007, when the intrepid (never was the adjective so fitting) Simon Moore was finally able to turn his full attention to the matter, he thought “enough of this,” used his many contacts to obtain King Michael of Romania’s email address, and asked the exiled 86 year-old King himself. The resulting story of the Alfa Romeo 2.9 made for a king, restored by a mechanic and confiscated by the communists just as the evil empire fell is one of Moore’s finest chapters.
[Read more…] about Book Review: The Immortal 2.9