By Pete Vack
From the Archives, September, 2012
Millenove ALFA ROMEO 1900
Author: H.-J. Döhren
320 pages, 25 x 28 cm hardcover format, printed on 150 g/m² art paper, with about 700 large format illustrations
From Europe, order here: https://www.millenove.de/buecher-bestellen
From U.S. order from don@bugattibooks.com at 941-727-8667
This review covers the first edition. The second edition of this successful work has been completely revised, many photos exchanged and the layout has also been improved.
There has been a gap in the Alfa Romeo bookshelf for many years, right between the 6C2500 and Alfa Disco Volante. A small gap but a huge subject, for the missing model is nothing less than the car that saved Alfa Romeo and set the path for the manufacturer’s ultimate post war success, the Giulietta. The 1900 (aka Millenove—which is a shortened version of the Italian for nineteenhundred) served as a bridge from Alfa Romeo’s glorious prewar past, to the exciting future that lay ahead. Its success was crucial to the survival of Alfa Romeo. [Read more…] about Alfa Millenove Reviewed, Alfa 1900 Remembered