What's this, who was it built by and when - for 1 point.
And again, before the choruses of "re-post" it is not a re-post!
Alfa?
Quote from: araknid on April 01, 2011, 01:47:36 PM
Alfa?
It is, but I'm afraid you don't get any points for that...!
I understand. But at least it gives me a place to start lookign. :)
Experts?
alfa romeo 3000 Colli
Quote from: thorax on April 11, 2011, 08:10:17 AM
alfa romeo 3000 Colli
That would make it a re-post:
www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=7185.0
and in my original question I stressed that this is
not a re-post.
Therefore the answer is "No"!
6c 3000 Boano/Peron car:
this car was in possession of a Henri W. Wessels III, who crashed it in a race in Pennsylvania in 1984.
The body was so damaged, that restoring it to it's original form would have been impossible; so Diomante coachworks in Turin rebody it as a Colli type coupe.
Quote from: thorax on April 11, 2011, 11:52:41 AM
6c 3000 Boano/Peron car:
this car was in possession of a Henri W. Wessels III, who crashed it in a race in Pennsylvania in 1984.
The body was so damaged, that restoring it to it's original form would have been impossible; so Diomante coachworks in Turin rebody it as a Colli type coupe.
You found it!
Well done.
So it was a copy as you say by Diomante in Turin.
What makes this a 1900? This seems to be the current body style of the Peron Alfa, which was originally a Fangio 6C 3000, and later advertised as being a 3500.
Quote from: sixtee5cuda on May 20, 2013, 03:15:05 PM
What makes this a 1900? This seems to be the current body style of the Peron Alfa, which was originally a Fangio 6C 3000, and later advertised as being a 3500.
That's a good question.
It would seem to be the Fangio 6C 3000 as you say, but at the time I seem to have been convinced it was a 1900SS though I can no longer see why nor can I remember.
I'll have a look at what I think was my source tonight but it looks like I might have to change the title!
Nothing new to report, having checked my books.
I seemed pretty sure at the time I posted this that it wasn't a re-post (which it would have been if it had been that original 6C 3000 Fangio) but I can no longer find any proof of that. But I accepted the ID as the 3000 without arguing the case for it being a 1900SS so maybe I was getting confused with something else. Frankly, I don't know. Sorry.
Perhaps an Alfa expert can throw some light on this.
The car is most definitely Peron's Boano car after the rebuild by Diomante into a Colli.
Peron's car was a 6C 3000 CM, not a 1900 (but some similar looking 1900's were made as well by Boano)
Example similar looking 1900: