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
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Latin American car museums
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
Style Icons Expo video: 15 top design Alfa Romeos (+ 1900 SSZ)
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
Another museum on the Southern hemisphere: Tasmania, Australia
After the recent addition of the Wanaka Transport and Toy Museum in Wanaka, New Zealand, there’s another automotive museum on the Southern hemisphere to put on the list: the National Automobile Museum of Tasmania in Launceston. Visitors will find a collection of more than a hundred classic automobiles, spanning a period of more than a … Continue reading
Huge private collection in New Zealand
I have added another museum to the list, the Wanaka Transport and Toy Museum, located next to the airport along the Wanaka – Luggate highway on the southern island of New Zealand. Although from the Alfas in the museum one could think they should still be on the road for normal use, the museum is … Continue reading
Two museum pages updated with videos
Two museum pages have been updated with embedded videos; from Autoworld in Brussels, Belgium and from the Museo dell’Automobile in San Martino in Rio, Italy. The videos, made by other users on YouTube show a lot more than only Alfas. Yes, did you know there’s more to life than just Alfa Romeo? 😉 Sometimes there … Continue reading
New Zealand added
The Southward Car Museum in Paraparaumu, founded by Len Southward, has an impressive collection of around 400 cars. Add some automobilia, a range of motorcycles, three airplanes and one can imagine a day will be too short to see it all. The museum is just one hour driving from Wellington.
Style Icons, Passione per il Design Italiano – exhibition
Top pieces from Alfa Romeo’s Museo Storico, the collection of Corrado Lopresto and other private collections will be exhibited on Style Icons (Dutch: Stijl Iconen) in the Louwman Museum, The Hague in the Netherlands. The exhibition starts April 27th and ends June 2nd and is organized in cooperation with the Dutch Alfa Romeo owners club … Continue reading
Video added to Mahy Automobiles page
I have added a documentary video to the page of Mahy Automobiles (Belgium). It tells the story of the the life work of founder Ghislain Mahy and his son Ivan, the growth of the collection of over a jaw dropping 1,000 cars and the present situation. The documentary is Dutch/Flemish spoken, but there’s a short … Continue reading
La Collezione Pininfarina
La Collezione Pininfarina is the works museum of maybe the worlds most important design house. You will not find an endless row of cars, but those present demand hours of scrupulous study; Modulo, Cambiano, Sergio and as for Alfa Romeo the stunning 2010 2uettottanta. If you are into automotive design the new page is certainly … Continue reading