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2010 Cortile Proiettore Macchina: Alfa Romeo

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A painting by Johno Prascak for the 2010 Cortile Proiettore Macchina: Alfa Romeo depicted at the Cortile event... The Pittsburgh Golf Club is in the background.

This will be for sale at the Cortile for $10,000...10% of the proceeds will go to our charity.

Johno, and fellow Cortile member Andy Schor selected the 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Mille Miglia Roadster (or Spider) pictured as this years' distinctive piece. It is portrayed with the Cortile, The Pittsburgh Golf Club, in the backdrop.

The 8C was the ultra-light short-chassis (Corto) competition version, with a Carrozzeria Touring (patented) Superleggera body. The motor was 2.9 litres. This was the fore-runner of modern Alfa Romeos, in that the 2900B had hydraulic 17-inch (432 mm) brakes, fully independent suspension and a four speed rear transaxle, instead of the live rear axle of earlier models. It had 19-inch rims and used 5.5-inch (140 mm) Pirelli Corsa tyres front and rear.

The Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B MM that won the 1938 Mille Miglia driven by Clemente Biondetti.

An 8C is on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, Philadelphia,PA, USA if your travels take you there BTW. Be sure and contact fellow member Fred Simeone about his fabulous collection.

In the 1938 Mille Miglia, Clemente Biondetti and Carlo Pintacuda took the first two places. Biondetti's car used a 300 bhp (220 kW) Tipo 308 engine, while Pintacuda's used a 225 bhp (168 kW) 2900B.[13] Phil Hill won several west coast United States races in Pintacuda's car in 1951 before driving for Ferrari.

The engine was a production 2900B is a dry sump twin Scintilla magneto supercharged inline 8-cylinder 2.9 litre using two Roots type superchargers fed by two updraught Weber carburettors. The output was 180 bhp (134 kW) and was the world's fastest production road car in 1938. (Competition versions gave 220 bhp (164 kW) at 5200 rpm) About 30 short-wheelbase (2,800 mm (110 in)) 2900B models were built, mostly with spider bodywork by Touring and Farina, about ten Lungo, long wheelbase, (3,000 mm (120 in)) models were built.[14] and only five with the Mille Miglia bodywork also by Touring of Milan. All were coachbuilt to the owners specification, so few, if any, are exactly alike.

The last time a roadster was auctioned, in August 1999, by Christie's at Pebble Beach, it brought four million and seventy two thousand US dollars, making it one of the ten most expensive cars ever auctioned.

The Mille Miglia roadsters are even more valuable, so valuable that some owners of the more usual Farina or Touring Spiders have had them professionally rebodied to match the Touring Mille Miglia Spider, as driven by Biondetti.

Technical drawings of the 2900B Mille Miglia by the American historian Jonathan Thompson survive
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    • Cortile Cup 2021
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    • Inception
  • Marques
    • Carrozzeria >
      • Bertone
      • Ghia
      • Pininfarina
      • Scaglietti
      • Vignale
      • Zagato
    • Abarth
    • Alfa Romeo
    • Bandini
    • Bizzarrini
    • Cisitalia
    • De Tomaso
    • Ferrari
    • Fiat
    • Innocenti
    • Iso Rivolta
    • Lamborghini
    • Lancia
    • Maserati
    • Moretti
    • Siata
    • Stanguellini
    • Taraschi
  • Sponsors
    • Ferrari of Philadelphia
    • Maserati of Pittsburgh
    • Pitt SAE Race Team
    • State Farm
    • Become a Sponsor
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    • Proiettore 2023
    • Saturday
    • Sunday