10-18-2005, 12:59 PM
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Who hijacked this thread???? 
I remember the headline
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Built in 1952:
#1359 00001 Spider C52 2-litre engine (now in Alfa museum)
#1359 00002 Spider C52 2-litre engine "Spider a fianchi stretti", or "narrow-sided" Spider (now in Schlumpf museum)
#1361 00011 Spider 6C3000 3-litre engine, body like 00001 (now in Biscaretti museum)
All three cars were built simultaneously in 1952 and all of them are members of the series callled Disco Volante.
Cars 001 and 011 were only tested on the track of Monza, they never raced.
The narrow-sided Spider was created for hillclimbs. The sides were designed flat so that the driver had a better feeling for the dimensions of the car.
Contrary to the other Discos, car 002 was borrowed to some Italian race drivers, who tested the narrow-sided Spider in some minor events in south Italy and in Sicily. Then it was purchased by Swiss driver Ducrey who later sold it to the Schlumpf brothers.
Built in 1953:
#1359 00002 Coupe 2-litre (Now in Alfa museum)
#1361 00012 Spider 3 or 3.5-litre dismantled
These are all cars of the Disco series.
The competition cars, officially named 6C3000CM, were built in 1953.
Although "politically" not correct many people name those cars Disco Volante as well.
I wondered why and how this nickname got transfered to another series of cars.
After viewing a lot of contemporary material, I realized whom to blame for this. It simply was Alfa Romeo themselfs who kept the myth and the name alife.
Remember that the 1952 Disco Volantes were a flop!
In order to avoid the bad publicity of withdrawing the cars, another series, the 6C3000CM, was built and the nickname was kept.
By this, it looked as if the racing department developed the Discos to a higher level. In fact the 6C cars were completely different!
About the Disco Volante 6C3000CM cars, I try to keep myself as short as possible. I just name the famous and later rebodied cars.
#1361 00125: Colli Coupe, 1953 MM Kling/Klenk #603, 1953 LM Fangio/Marimon #22, 1954 sold to Joakim Bonnier, due to an accident rebodied as Spider by Zagato, Jobo raced the car 1955 in Sweden and 1956 in GB, then it was sold to Henry Wessles, who later sold it to Yoshiyuki Hayashi
#1361 00126: Colli Coupe, 1953 LM Kling/Riess #23, 1954 rebodied by Boano and gifted to Persident J.M. Peron, the car passed several hands until it came into the hands of, again, Henry Wessels. Crashed in the 80ies, the car currently has a recreation of the Colli body, as seen in many historic events.
#1361 00128: Colli Coupe, 1953 MM Fangio/Sala, 1953 LM spare-car #68 Stagnoli/Palmeri, 1954 sold to Pinin Farina; 1956 presented as "Super Flow" at Torino show, later that year the same car was shown as "Super Flow II" at the Paris show; 1959 on the same chassis Pinin presented the "Spyder Super Sport" at Geneva; in 1960 the last body, named "Coupe Super Sport Speziale", was presented at Geneva as well.
The car is now in the Rosso Bianco collection in Germany.
I hope you didn't fall asleep by all these boring data;-)
Ciao Carlo
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