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
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
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
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 May 30th to June 2nd, 2013, the sixteenth international ‘Raduno’ (gathering) of Alfa Romeo 6c 2500 models will be held in the Netherlands. The first two days the cars and their owners reside in Oisterwijk, June 1st the cars drive to The Hague, finishing the tour at the Louwman Museum, where the Stile Icons … Continue reading
Retrovisore (Italian for rear view mirror) looks back at events I have attended in the past. This issue however is from an event I unfortunately missed. The photos are kindly provided by Michiel Witsen. In 2010 Alfa Romeo celebrated its 100th anniversary. The kick off was in January when the Interclassics & Topmobiel classic car … Continue reading
Retrovisore (Italian for rear view mirror) looks back at events I have attended in the past. The Concours d’Elegance in the gardens of the ‘Het Loo’ palace in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands is one of the world’s top concourses. The images in this slideshow are from 2003. One of my favorites is the sleek 2600 … Continue reading
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
Alfa Romeo in museums 