From the Goodwood Festival of Speed FAQ page: Can I buy a ticket on the day? Answer: Entry is by advance ticket only. It is not possible to buy ticket(s) on the day, and there will be no admission without a ticket. So if you want to go, buy tickets now. It’s been too long … 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
The Mille Miglia, la corsa più bella del mondo, the world’s most beautiful race, has 422 cars on the starting list of 2013. No less than 32 of them are Alfa Romeos, dating from 1928 (85 years old!) to 1957. Thursday, May 16 at 6:45 the first car will roll down from the starting platform … 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
This week I have added a couple of new pages with information on car museums in Southern America. Like the Collección Nicolini in Lima, Peru, a nice museum, started by mr. Nicolini who had a serious passion for classic cars. Over the years he collected some 120 cars, among them an Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ. … Continue reading
Think the historic Mille Miglia is the only revival event of a legendary Italian road race? Wrong! This year, from August 28th to September 1st, classic cars will transit the Dolomites in northern Italy, starting from Cortina d’Ampezzo. Registration is open to cars built from 1919 to 1961 (exceptions can be made for cars up … Continue reading
I must confess: when I see a car chase on TV I must lean forward, I’ll be on the edge of my chair. Especially when Alfa Romeos are involved. They’ll be my favorites, no matter whether they belong to the good guys or the bad guys. In the seventies wild car chases were a recurring … 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
