[iicarJohn]

Some items here have been brought to my attention after I began a Boneschi thread yesterday.

One Alfa Romeo 2600 "spyder" Boneschi (chassis AR*192747) was offered by Christie's in December of 1983 at the Motorshow held in Bologna, a photocopy of the catalogue pages having been shared a number of years ago by Corrado Bellabarba. The catalogue decription states (translating from the Italian) "Tested in a single example ... 21 February 1964 ..." which might seem to imply that only one example was built but really states it was tested as an individual example under norms that were probably a bit different than those employed for series-produced models that had been homologated normally. Further, "The car in question was built 1963 and called "Studio 9". It's official presentation was made at the Salone Torino 1963 ..."

I will try to dig out more about the cabriolet/spyder that opens this thread but a bit of a beginning to some AR1900 Boneschi documentation is now posted on another thread titled, "Boneschi". It lso may (or may not?) show an answer to Carlo's query about the industrial patent description that appears as part of the Boneschi identification on the back side of his photo.

John

P.S. It is somewhat amusing (and sad) to note that the automated link that crawled onto the "truck" word of Carlo's initial posting leads to a misspelled word in another posting where "trunk" was intended.