Alfa in it's Natural Habitat
Exiting the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, this is a 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C Super Sport Corsa 2500. It is fitted with a Mille Miglia Spyder body from Carrozzeria Touring. These Mille Miglia race cars have 6 cylinder twin cam normally aspirated motors using three single barrel side draft Weber carburetors, wheras the other Alfa Romeo 8 cylinder cars were supercharged. While the 2500 models had substantially less power than the supercharged cars, their better fuel mileage enable them to carry less fuel and be lighter as result, a benefit for the longer events.
Introduced in 1939, the Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 was the result of over a decade of gradual development of the '6C'. Starting in 1927 with the 6C 1500, the six cylinder engined machines had served as Alfa Romeo's main production model but also scored numerous competition successes. The 6C 2500 would remain in Alfa's line-up until 1952 and is to this day regarded as one of the company's finest cars. In addition to the production road car, Alfa Romeo also developed a competition version for long distance events like the Mille Miglia and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It featured an even higher compression and larger fuel tank and was known internally as the Tipo 256 for its displacement and number of cylinders.
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Alfa in it's Natural Habitat
Exiting the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, this is a 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C Super Sport Corsa 2500. It is fitted with a Mille Miglia Spyder body from Carrozzeria Touring. These Mille Miglia race cars have 6 cylinder twin cam normally aspirated motors using three single barrel side draft Weber carburetors, wheras the other Alfa Romeo 8 cylinder cars were supercharged. While the 2500 models had substantially less power than the supercharged cars, their better fuel mileage enable them to carry less fuel and be lighter as result, a benefit for the longer events.
Introduced in 1939, the Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 was the result of over a decade of gradual development of the '6C'. Starting in 1927 with the 6C 1500, the six cylinder engined machines had served as Alfa Romeo's main production model but also scored numerous competition successes. The 6C 2500 would remain in Alfa's line-up until 1952 and is to this day regarded as one of the company's finest cars. In addition to the production road car, Alfa Romeo also developed a competition version for long distance events like the Mille Miglia and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It featured an even higher compression and larger fuel tank and was known internally as the Tipo 256 for its displacement and number of cylinders.
Double click on image to enlarge.
AS ALWAYS....COMMENTS & INVITATIONS with AWARD BANNERS will be respectfully DELETED!