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John is 100% correct, 750 Sprints were not built / shipped or delivered in any sort of sequence.
Car #24 was built in January '55 and delivered to Jo Bonnier in Sweden - now owned by list member "Twin Cam"
Car #71,(Engine 00039), was built in December '54 and belongs to a friend in Argentina.
According to "Centro di Documentazione Storica", 00071 was originally white, with a black leather interior. The Sprint came to Argentina with other 2 important Alfas, destined for the former president Juan Perón. The other two Alfas were a 1900 CSS, just painted in navy blue, and a 3000CM, that was raced by Fangio, and it came painted with the Argentine racing colors of navy blue with yellow bonnet. An interesting aside here, is that traces of navy blue paint were found on 00071 during a restoration..... perhaps there was a closer connection between the cars than is documented.....
Ciao
Greig
Sunny South Africa
Last edited by AlfistiSA; 03-16-2008 at 04:42 AM.
Reason: Amended chassis number
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