Chassis Number: 50013
Here we are absolutely delighted to have been engaged to offer this outstanding, uniquely important, supercharged straight-8 Alfa Romeo Grand Prix car for sale by auction. It is a superb example of the first all-independently suspended, big-engined Grand Prix racing design from Alfa Romeo, which the Portello factory made in 1936 to combat the might of the rival state-backed German “Silver Arrow” Mercedes-Benz W-25E and Auto Union C-type cars. It was in this Alfa Romeo and its sisters that the legendary Italian superstar driver Tazio Nuvolari and his teammates fought a bitter rearguard action against the overwhelming might of the German teams and their star drivers. Here is an artifact which in essence these great names would have seen, touched, experienced, campaigned and confronted around the world’s most demanding road-racing circuits of the mid-1930s.
