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
A lot of traffic to this website comes from people who are looking for information about the Joop Stolze collection in De Lier, west of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. There must be something mythical about it… Pretty fair to update the page on Stolze with a YouTube slideshow with the Alfa Romeos that are residing in … 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
Recently the Italian classic car magazine Ruoteclassiche published on its blog photos from some of the most successful cars from Alfa Romeo’s Autodelta motorsports department. Alfa Romeo took the cars to the Balocco test track, west of Milan, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Autodelta, which was founded by Ing. Carlo Chiti and Ing. Lodovico … Continue reading
