Thread: Alfa Romeo Pescara #700635
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Old 06-01-2009, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Kim Loyd View Post
I have a 1937 6C2300B engine and transmission and would love to know what the coachwork was on the car and on which wheelbase. Engine S/N P 823827 I think the P is Pescara. Any comments would be welcome.
Motor 823827 would have been original to chassis 823827, and the car would have been a 6c2300B Mille Miglia (although some books refer to the cars built in 1936 as 6c2300B Pescara and the cars built in 1937 as 6c2300B Mille Miglia....the cars are identical). Alfa does not have any records as to what coachwork was on any of the 6c2300A or 6c2300B cars, nor any records as to whom these cars was sold. Fusi is wrong in the fact that if you add up the number of cars he calls 6c2300B Pescara and 6c2300B Mille Miglia, there would be over 200. The actual total of both is 106 cars.

As said ealier, the cars known as 1939-1940 6c2500 Tipo 256 may have actually been bored out 6c2300Bs, with the 3 carb manifold added and different cams and compression ratio. 19 racing cars of this type were built, with various coachwork.

The pre-war 6c2500SS "street" cars may also have actually had bored out 6c2300B motors with the 3 carb manifold. Only 17 of these were built with various coachwork. Again, these cars may have had different compression ratios and cams than the 6c2300B Mille Miglias.
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