Alfa-Romeo 6C 2300 Aerospider - 1935
1934 : construction of engine, transmission and frame
1935 : completion of first version of chassis
1936 : testing period, modifications of chassis, start of body making
1937 : completion of chassis and body for race car
1938 : modification into street car
In 1934 Alfa-Romeo's brilliant engineer Vittorio Jano began secretly developing a racer with a mid-mounted V12 engine. Developed outside the Alfa works in the Fiume (now Rijeka) garage of Gino and Oscar Jankovits, the project stalled when Jano left Alfa-Romeo in 1937. Unable to use the V12, the brothers settled for a less powerful 6C 2300 unit. Their 'Aerospider' remained hidden until 1946, when Gino fled Communist rule, driving under the frontier barrier into Italy in a hail of bullets.
Class XII : Racing cars
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2017
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2017
Alfa-Romeo 6C 2300 Aerospider - 1935
1934 : construction of engine, transmission and frame
1935 : completion of first version of chassis
1936 : testing period, modifications of chassis, start of body making
1937 : completion of chassis and body for race car
1938 : modification into street car
In 1934 Alfa-Romeo's brilliant engineer Vittorio Jano began secretly developing a racer with a mid-mounted V12 engine. Developed outside the Alfa works in the Fiume (now Rijeka) garage of Gino and Oscar Jankovits, the project stalled when Jano left Alfa-Romeo in 1937. Unable to use the V12, the brothers settled for a less powerful 6C 2300 unit. Their 'Aerospider' remained hidden until 1946, when Gino fled Communist rule, driving under the frontier barrier into Italy in a hail of bullets.
Class XII : Racing cars
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2017
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2017