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Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Spider by Touring Heading to Auction

#1 · May 11, 2022 As I approach retirement, I think will need a project to keep me from pestering others, especially my wife. I am in love with the 1936 8C 2900a Botticella. So I think I'll have to build something inspired from her fantastic gestalt. Don Peterson found me an old dead 2600 engine that has triggered this adventure.

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Hemmings Motor News: Unrestored 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C Wins Top Honors at Elegance at Hershey, by Kurt Ernst, June 20, 2013; JalopyJournal.com: The Story of Tommy Lee, by Ron Kellogg, January 13, 2010;. 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Mille Miglia Spider, #412015, 1937. Back to Index

1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A at the Radnor Hunt Concours d'Elegance

412007 Alfa Romeo historian Simon Moore went to great lengths to uncover the history of the early 1935 and 1936 models. By his estimate four separate Spyders were made in this period of which he has the only remaining survivor with an original body. 1 Simon purchased chassis 412007 as a chassis from the United States with no body or engine 1980.

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Article Image gallery Specifications 8C 2900 A (1936 - 1937) 1936 1937 History Vittorio Jano was responsible for the design of the magnificent engineering marvel, the 8C 2300. The name was formed by following Alfa Romeo's naming convention; the 8C represented the eight-cylinder engine while the 2300 represented the cubic-capacity.

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Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B 1937-1938. With a top speed of 120 mph, the 180 hp Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B was touted at the time of its debut as the world's fastest production road car. It marked the debut.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Spider 2010 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

Above all of these was the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, whose lineage is part of a consistent and logical evolution stretching back to the 1920s, to the competition-oriented P3s, and the overwhelming race victories achieved in the early to mid-1930s by the 8C 2300s. The 8C 2900 was not a mere sports car, but the most advanced, modern, and compelling.

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It was Alfa Romeo's most prestigious grand touring car and was based on their successful motor sport engineering. On the track, the 2900 competition cars benefited from a decade of Alfa Romeo progress and became the most successful of their time. A trio of 2900A`s placed first-second-third at the 1936 Mille Miglia, while three specially built.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Botticella Spider High Resolution Image (1 of 6)

An exciting new Alfa Romeo racing spider on the 8C2900B chassis had been designed and making an appropriate body was turned over to Carozzeria Touring. They prepared five of these gorgeous cars for the 1938 Mille Miglia yet only four took part.

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In the hands of Scuderia Ferrari, Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A models swept the podium at the 1936 Mille Miglia, backing up this performance by finishing 1-2 in the 1937 race. Not every buyer needed (or wanted) a car with this level of performance, so in response Alfa Romeo created the the slightly more relaxed 8C 2900B in 1937..

1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Spyder Review

The most advanced sports car of the last half of the 1930s was the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900. With double overhead cams and valves, two superchargers, a transaxle, independent four-wheel suspension adjustable from the seat, and a magnificent styling, automotive experts believe that these cars were unbeatable on the track or on the road.

1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Spyder Gallery

Much like the contemporary Grand Prix racers, the 8C 2900 featured all-round independent suspension, with wishbones at the front and swing-axles at the rear. Installed in the chassis was a 220 bhp version of the 2.9 litre eight cylinder engine. A total of six of these road racers, later known as 8C 2900A, were constructed.

1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Pinin Farina Spyder Coupe Alfa romeo 8c

The Alfa Romeo 8C was a range of Alfa Romeo road, race and sports cars of the 1930s. The 8C designates 8 cylinders, and originally a straight 8-cylinder engine. The Vittorio Jano designed 8C was Alfa Romeo 's primary racing engine from its introduction in 1931 to its retirement in 1939.

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Alfa Romeo built only a handful of its masterpiece, the 8C 2900, in the late 1930s. They are some of the most purposefully beautiful sports cars of the era and, by all reports, far and away the best driving automobiles of the period.

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1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Spyder Gallery. One of the most advanced sports car of the era was the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900. It is barely believable that in that day and age this car had double overhead cams and valves, two superchargers, a transaxle, independent four-wheel suspension adjustable from the seat, and a magnificent styling.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2900, opera d'arte da 16,7 millioni di euro

An automotive jewel engineered by Vittorio Jano, the 8C 2900 was designed to compete in sports car races, especially the Mille Miglia, which it won outright in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1947. In racing trim, they dominated all the major competitions, and in road trim, they were the fastest grand touring cars.