10-21-2005, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by 2000 touring sp
some one has stated that it started as a 3000cc engine and Alfa gave up on that.
The 6C engine , not the old 6c2500, did that not start as a 6C2000 designed by Ricardo for the Gazelle prototype. And than it was considered for the new Berlina "1900". And the enlarged by Colombo for the C50.
I have never heard that Alfa Romeo planed for a series production of a cc3000 car after the second world war
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Please, don't tell me pedant, but how about once for all spell correctly poor Wifredo Ricart's name!
Now, back to seriousness. Indeed the 6C2000 "Gazzella" was built during the war tested and rated by Sanesi "unfit for production". A too complicated car as it seems.
Quote: 'the Gazzella is to a car what a locomotive is to a bicycle'
Resuming the 6C2500 production was the only way to go in a semi-destroyed factory, back in 1946. But the 6C2500 had its flaws, as brillantly highlighted in Anselmi's book. Busso's technical analysis is sharp, if possibly a little bit biased, but remember Anselmi is a real lover of the 6C2500, so the criticism is not unfair to the car.
There was need of something more modern, and the project was the 6C3000. I seem to remember the car was never fully completed beyond the scale mock up illustrated below and the engines which were further developped into the racing ones we are talking about.
In 1949, Alfa's management went into another change of mind and ordered the 6C3000 to be dropped, taht the design team should concentrate only on the "little" project, to become the 1900. Basically, however, the 6 and 4 cylindrers engines were the same. BTW, the 1900 engine should have featured aluminium block, but since the first tests with such a prototype showed problems, Satta and Busso settled for traditional cast iron as they had not the necessary time/resources to sort it out. So the aluminium block of the Disco Volante can be seen as the experimental realization of what was intended for the 1900 (not for output, just for construction)
edit/ Sorry Carter, I had not seen your post while I was writing, but of course we say the same thing.
Last edited by gtv2000; 10-21-2005 at 09:05 AM.
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