It is a unique Alfa Romeo, with sleek lines, green metallic with a orange accent on the front. That must be Bertone’s Carabo, right? Nope, it is the third of eight modern Disco Volante’s bij Touring Superleggera, presented at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show. This modern interpretation of the old Alfa Romeo model 1900 C52 … Continue reading
The weekend of August 24th/25th 2013 it was nothing but Alfa Romeo at the Spettacolo Sportivo at the track of Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Organized by the largest Alfa Romeo owners club in the Netherlands, the SCARB, the event among hundreds of Alfa Romeos from all over Europe featured cars from the Louwman Museum and … Continue reading
Albeit a bit late, I’d like to get back to the Villa d’Este Concorso d’Eleganza, held from May 24th to 26th. By referendum at Villa Erba the public granted the Concorso d’Eleganza Design Award for Concept Cars & Prototypes to the Disco Volante 2013 by Touring Superleggera. In science fiction movies flying saucers (disco volante … Continue reading
As announced earlier, the Registro Internationale 6C 2500 organized an international ‘raduno’, from May 30th to June 2nd, 2013, in the Netherlands. I made three videos. The first is from May 31st. The owners and their cars (Alfa Romeo 6C 2500, 6C 2300 and 6C 1500) stopped at the market square in Oirschot. While the … Continue reading
Saturday May 18th the participants of the 2013 Mille Miglia returned to Brescia. Well, most of them did. The 1,600 kilometers are not only challenging the drivers and co-drivers but also the vintage and classic cars, built between 1927 and 1957 so it won’t surprise anybody that some of them broke down and had to … Continue reading
One of the new subscribers to the Twitter account of this website is ‘Coppa di Koumi’. Welcome! 歓迎 The name made me curious and I found out the Coppa di Koumi is a small but nice event for classic European cars in Japan, with an emphasis on Italian, but not strictly limited to cars from … Continue reading
In 2008 together with a group of some 24 Dutch Alfisti I attended the Le Mans Classic event. Staying in a hotel in Nogent-le-Rotrou, in the Eure-et-Loire district, we had to travel some 80 kilometers to and from the Le Mans race track. That was not a drawback at all, the trip led us trough … Continue reading
April 26th, 2013, the Style Icons exposition in the Louwman Museum was officially opened. Here’s a short video, published on SCARBtube, the YouTube channel of the largest and oldest (35 years) Alfa Romeo owners club (SCARB) in the Netherlands. One of the Alfa Romeos is the 1900 SSZ that recently was retrieved from a garage … Continue reading
Currently on display at the Style Icons exhibition in the Louwman Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, is a rare 1900 SSZ. ‘SS’ for Super Sport, ‘Z’ for Carrozzeria Zagato. In 1952 the 1900 SSZ was developed for competition use. The weight was kept low by the use of materials like aluminum for the body … Continue reading
From April 20th to 23rd some 70 most European classic cars made their way through the Japanese landscape. Alfa Romeo Giuliettas in the bamboo forest, a Stanguellini, a Triumph and an Osca under the cherry blossom, a remarkable view. It was at the Festa Primavera, the Japanese pendant of the Mille Miglia. On the entry list … Continue reading
Alfa Romeo in museums 