This 1949 6C 2500 SS belongs to Corrado Lopresto and was supposedly custom-built for Aga Khan.

 

Wow. Looks like an Italian version of a Bentley R-type Continental, especially from the rear. Be still, my heart

 

Bloody hell, that is a beautiful car ...

I'd love to see inside Corrado's garage (assuming he just has one ...). He restored that interesting Bertone 1750GT prototype (mini Iso Lele lookalike) that Stefano Paracchi dug out a couple of years ago, didn't he?

 

1937 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 B Pescara Pinin Farina Berlinetta

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it's true, but I'm surprised the Pescara coupe has elicited so little reaction. I find it to be a stunning Art Deco creation that looks extremely Germanic, very reminiscent of an Adler or Mercedes-Benz. In my imagination I see this car racing down the autobahn in full song, only to be blown into the weeds by the uber-arrogant Mercedes-Benz 540K Autobahnkurier sitting next to it at Villa d'Este this year. What a pair!

 

I'll take it, even though it only has 80 hp...

 

1935 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Jankovits Spider

 

It's proper aerodynamics in a 1935 car.

Incredible that someone had that much insight so long ago. From a modern aerodynamic perspective there are obvious mistakes, but for 1935, this thing is from 70 years in the future!

Gawd it's wonderful! Were there more than one made? I'm sure if there are, they are still pure un-obtainium ($$$+$).

As long as you wear goggles, you only have to worry about bugs in your teeth (from smiling while driving).

Any interior or engine bay photos?
Who is the lucky owner?
Where in the world is it's garage?

WOW! I love that car.

 

One of the few shows in the world where the setting is as good as the cars.

 

1940 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Pinin Farina Cabriolet

 

1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Pinin Farina Cabriolet

An absolute beauty. Thank you very much for posting these photos.

 

Holy cow - Are those beautiful. The first one looks like a B20 with the wrong badge.

One of these days I got to go to the Lake Como for that show.

 

Okay, I just added some more v.interesting photographs to the 2 most recent cars.

That pamphlet outlining the 'secret project of Vittorio Jano', does anyone know where to see/read a copy?

 

Thank you for the extra photos of the 1935 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Jankovits Spider. I think this might be one of my top 20 cars of all time. I really think it's special.

 

Thanks for these great pix--I saved them all to my collection!

 

256/19. Do other Tipo 256 cars have this addon plate? What exactly makes a Tipo 256 different from the regulate 6C 2500 SS?

 

I have been told by Fabio Calligaris of the 6c2300/6c2500 register that just 19 of the Tipo 256 cars were built. They are very similar to the pre-war 6c2500SS cars, but have minor differences. I'm not sure exactly what they are; probably cams, compression, and things like that....

 

Yes Richard,

s/n 815001 has similar plate stamped 256 / 2-T.
kind regards.
Cris.-

 

Low and behold, I was searching the Internet for more information on the 1935 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Jankovits Spider and found that our own Alfabb had some about another, albeit later, Jankovits Spider:

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/lim...b/forums/limited-production-1910-1949/17672-alfa-romeo-jankovits-6c-2300-a.html

1938 Alfa Romeo Jankovits 6C 2300 by the Jankovits brothers, Hungary. I still like the 1935 6C better, but perhaps I need to study these Jankovits characters a bit more! They were true visionaries.

Alfabb 'Tubolare Zagato' furnished the red car images.
Alfabb 'Alex' furnished the blue car image from an auction, I think.
Photos from that thread:

 

I'm sorry for answering my own post, but from what I've read, all of the photos are of the same car!

This was a one of a kind automobile. A 3 seater with center driving position.

The restoration with it's glossy dark green color and wire wheels made it look like an earlier version of the blue and red car. Windscreen, no windscreen. Confusion abounds. Logic would say a restoration would have a single original color. But this thing got re-sprayed at least 3 times.

Read the article posted within the alfabb thread and you'll be amazed at it's journey.

The chassis and maybe engine leaves Italy for Hungary. Some confusion exists as to where it was built, Italy or Hungary. The article seems to state it was built in Hungary and eventually shipped to Italy. The brothers need cash after running from post-war Communist Hungary and sell it to an American GI (the only name forgotten in it's history). He ships it home to America. From there it get's more convoluted ending back in Italy/France?

In the thread there is reference to the design being similar to the German Autounion rear-engine cars. This is supposed to have happened around the time Fusi was fired for losing to the Germans.

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Yes, only 1 car. Tron makes a hand made miniature of it in 1/43rd scale...

 

Ultimatecarepage.com has featured a great report from the Concorso today!
**** good photos of all these cars, and I can't wait for more in-depth coverage of the Jankovits 6C! What a beautiful machine!

2008 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este - Report and Slideshow

 

Brother Jankovits are from Rijeka, Croatia where thy have been alfa concessionars. Probably they built the car in Rijeka.
Here is link to a text about the car in croatian, but you have some original photos of the car.

 

sorry, forget the link
Here it is:
F1Racing.com.hr

 

Thank you for the post and link. Great photo of it being tested.

 

Dear Sirs,
I'm a newcomer to Alfa Romeo History, but have some discrepances with the 6C 2300 Aerodinamica Spider and the surname Jankovits
I have found this pics

and I see noticeable differences between the unit shown in Villa d'Este and this ones that seem older... are they a replica? if its the same unit... why the differences? As far as I understand the car for the concours must be as closed as possible to the original model...
thanks for your comprehension and sorry to but in

 

Respected antique dealer Colin Crabbe was told by Luigi Fusi of the Alfa Romeo Museum that the Jankowits car is not an Alfa Romeo, what ever the current owner seems to think, none the less it is an extremely interesting Alfa Romeo powered special, stories of the car dodging bullets to escape communist Yugoslavia are comically wide of the mark, the car and its occupants were allowed to leave the Yugoslavia with a perfectly normal travel permit, it was never designed for anything other than a straight 6, Alfa V12's did not exist at the time the car was conceived by the Jankowits Brothers.